Nothing fake, replicated or "pertaining to times past" about this, so that 'SNAG' term is summarily rejected here.
[SNAG= Sensitive New Age Guy, or is it a thin skinned spineless bag of offal, ... I forget which.]
This is one of the toys in the collection & is clearly a fixy. Fixy as in I need to fix it up, so a fixy it is. [restorers delight?]
This one, I am now advised, was built somewhere around 1918 to perhaps 1922 & is, apparently, a road racer frame. By the time I got it, it had been a bush bike for a while & that's pretty much how it is represented here. [lower photo]
So the question is, what do I do with it?
Do I try to faithfully represent it as it would have been when new in the late teens/early twenties as a racer, or capture it in it's later life, just pre war, as the bike of an itinerant rural worker?
It had been parked where I found it in the early 80's by a young man who was catching the train to Sydney to join up to go to war in about 1940. He never came back to pick it up. If you saw the condition it was in & you were a cashed up returning serviceman, you wouldn't have picked it up either.
This is a backburner project but I would be interested to learn what others think.
Interestingly, a Brooks B17 saddle would not be entirely out of place as these were in production from at least 1908 & probably a few years earlier & yes, I actually rode it like you see it here.

