Re: [CR]Hetchins on Ebay - now Hetchins Six-Day

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing)

Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 12:12:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: "dave martinez" <dmart84815@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Hetchins on Ebay - now Hetchins Six-Day
To: Hilary Stone <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>, dbilenkey@sympatico.ca, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <BAC759B7.12E62%hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>


Hello All, Is the seller Jake Rivera, the man behind the "Real" Hetchins? Just wondering, Dave Martinez Fremont, N. Cal.

Hilary Stone <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:The Six-Day Hetchins was a model from Hetchins with a fluted seat tube (fluted at the rear) and was available in road or track versions and with a variety of lugwork including Super Special. The fluted seat tube enabled a full 27in wheel to be used with a mudguard despite short chainstays (from memory I think 16in) with a 39 1/2in wheelbase. The Six-Day model was named after the Hetchins machines used by Cor Wals, Van Kempen and O'Brien in the Wembley Six-Day race in 1938. The fluted seat tube was developed originally for the SWB Competition tandem which was developed in response to Claud Butler's curved seat tube SWB tandem and Saxon's twin seat tube SWB tandem and was first used on solo machines produced for that Wembley Six-Day. This particular frame may well be one of two Super Special Six-Day models from 1949 surviving though there were many more Super Special Six-Days built.

Hilary Stone, Bristol, England

David Bilenkey wrote:
> And road dropouts, and brake cable stops, and a shifter boss. This clearly
> isn't a track bike. Are there 6 day races that aren't track races? Or am I
> missing something. Too big for me, but I'm curious.
>
>> vze4k5n6@verizon.net writes:
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>> http://ebay.com/<blah>
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>> Did they use headlights for six day races?
>> This seems to have a mount for a headlight on the fork.
>>
>> Pete Geurds
>> Douglassville, PA
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