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
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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
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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... |
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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
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Contemporary Bates Bicycles
available from:
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