Information on Barry Hoban bike please
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You are not the first person to ask about them on here . Link to previous thread .
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You are not the first person to ask about them on here . Link to previous thread .
viewtopic.php?f=12&t=247672
marshalllucky
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I have found this full page Barry Hoban ad in a 1987 cycling magazine, not the same model but prob a rare press advert anyway. I also recall a British Eagle catalogue 12 page centrefold in one of my old magazines and think it included Barry Hoban range , I will have a look for it when I get chance.
I have found this full page Barry Hoban ad in a 1987 cycling magazine, not the same model but prob a rare press advert anyway. I also recall a British Eagle catalogue 12 page centrefold in one of my old magazines and think it included Barry Hoban range , I will have a look for it when I get chance.
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jim haseltine
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That's because it pretty much is. At the time I worked for Falcon, bikes were produced under Falcon, Coventry Eagle, British Eagle, Eddy Merckx and many other names - all but a few of the higher range Falcon models were sourced as frames or CKD bikes from the Far East. When Barry Hoban retired from continental pro racing he rode some races in the UK with the Falcon pro team - I remember getting a bollocking for spending and hour or so talking with him instead of working while he adjusted his bike in the Brigg factory. As a budding road racer at the time I was naive enough to believe that pro cyclists were supplied with all their kit - far from it, for many of his early years his 'Mercier' frames were actually Woodrups sprayed pink and badged up in France.
A while after I left the company British Eagle was split off and moved to a factory in Wales (probably benefiting from some government handout) where he became sales manager I think.
That's because it pretty much is. At the time I worked for Falcon, bikes were produced under Falcon, Coventry Eagle, British Eagle, Eddy Merckx and many other names - all but a few of the higher range Falcon models were sourced as frames or CKD bikes from the Far East. When Barry Hoban retired from continental pro racing he rode some races in the UK with the Falcon pro team - I remember getting a bollocking for spending and hour or so talking with him instead of working while he adjusted his bike in the Brigg factory. As a budding road racer at the time I was naive enough to believe that pro cyclists were supplied with all their kit - far from it, for many of his early years his 'Mercier' frames were actually Woodrups sprayed pink and badged up in France.
A while after I left the company British Eagle was split off and moved to a factory in Wales (probably benefiting from some government handout) where he became sales manager I think.
