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              Horace Bates Bicycles are famous for their Reynolds made, proprietary "Cantiflex" tubing, which bulges outward
in the center of the tube, and the "Diadrant" double raked 
forks, with a reverse curve.

Updated 6/22/2004      Click on the pics to see a larger version

An advertisement in 1936 Cycling magazine describing the characteristics of tubing...

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 Ace rider Stan Butler

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1937 Bates

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(More to come as the Webmaster
works to restore his 1938  B.A.R. !)

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Bates featured in Cycling Plus Magazine article by Paul Vincent

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Bates bike with Cantiflex tubing and Diadrant forks
Photos courtesy Peter Paine

           

The new Bates bikes
Bates are being made today with the famous Cantiflex tubing and Diadrant forks..
Supplies are dwindling but frames are being built by
Ron Cooper and offered to aficionados worldwide...

The NEW Bates "Volante" with hand cut lugs, round fork blades and all the traditional details..

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Ray Etherton's Bates B.A.R.

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Raoul Delmare's new Bates

     

            

Contemporary Bates Bicycles available from:

Worldwide distribution
 www.BatesBicycles.com

PO Box 19585,

Larbert, Scotland  FK5 3YD

Tel: 01324 559571