Hello Peter. Many thanks we had some wonderful weekends up there. Fabulous cycling country Middleton, Holme, Huggate great times and Beverley is a real gem. If I gave you a frame number could you look it up on the Hetchins register and tell me its history? Cheers Mick.
>From where the wheels don't spin as fast as they use to. Be lucky Michael
Butler Huntingdon UK.
>From: "Peter Brown" <peterg.brown@ntlworld.com>
>To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>CC: <pariscyclesuk@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Hetchins Magnum Bonum (Bogus?) on eBay
>Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:40:11 +0100
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>Mick Butler wrote:
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>I have been kindly asked to refrain from using bad language on the CR site
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>so I will have to use a politer expression, if this Hetchin's is not AN
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>ORIGINAL my penis is a cured Clupea harengus!
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>Anyone want to know the South London coarser expression please contact me
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>off list for a translation.
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>This frame I am positive is the one I used to see outside Cliff Pratts
>shop
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>in Hull. This would be circa 1966 when my club was pot hunting in this
>area.
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>Me I was driving the club car and touring by bicycle in the wonderful
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>Yorkshire Wolds.
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>There is an awful lot of gonads (not allowed to use the real word) talked
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>about Hetchins copies etc.
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>Think this unfortunately applies to this one. Original yes and the real
>dogs
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>whatevers.
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>In reply to Nelson Millers:
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> >Group---- I just noticed a Hetchins on eBay -- auction # 7236121176
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> >that appears to be to be one of the famous "Magnun Bogus" series. Look
>at
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> >the harsh bends in the rear stays-- nice try, whoever did it! cheers---
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>I can say that this frame appears on the Hetchins register as having been
>supplied to the Cliff Pratt shop on the 14th December 1965. Well done to
>Mick and his great memory.
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>Peter Brown, Lincolnshire, England