1963 Hetchins Magnum Bonum, serial number H3332,
24 3/8" seat tube ctt, 23 1/4" top tube ctc,
Reynolds 531 double butted tubing. Purchased from Jack White.
Hetchins Register: builder was probably Jack Denny; the original
paint scheme was black with pale blue lug outlining, with block/fairground
decals/transfers, and the original owner's name, Jack Bailey, and his bicycle club, South
Bucks Road Club, were in script on the top tube
Components: Campagnolo Record rear gear [1963+]; Campagnolo Record
front changer [chrome plated bronze arm and cable stop arm];
Campagnolo Record downtube shifters; Campagnolo Record 45-50 crankset [151 mm
chainring BCD w/o raised pedal hole lip = 1962+];
Maillard Sprint five speed freewheel w/ alloy cogs for the two largest
[13-15-18-22-28; 42-101 gear inches]; SRAM PC58 chain;
Campagnolo thin cups bottom bracket;
Campagnolo alloy body/steel quill pedals with strap loop; GB Professionnel stainless steel toe clips;
Weinmann engraved Vainqueur 999 centerpull brake calipers [with
one-piece springs] & Weinmann levers; KoolStop brake pads; Bluemels
shorty plastic mudguards; Clarks ribbed cable housing;
Campagnolo high flange hubs [w/ no-Record barrel & (19)62
locknuts]; Mavic 700c rims;
Campagnolo Record headset [1965+ w/ «c» marking];
GB Touring Bend handlebars with scalloped ferrule; 3" GB spearpoint stem;
Ideale 90 Speciale Competition 'Rodee Main Rebour' saddle; Campagnolo seatpost; TA steel water bottle cage
Weight: 24.2 pounds
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I acquired the
frame from Jack White in Shropshire, UK, the second owner. Here's Jack
White racing on the Hetchins in a two-up time trial in 1972; he's the
rider at right.
This Magnum Bonum name and lug design are in the
Hetchins Latin series of frame names / lug designs. Elegant or over-the-
top? Curiously strong and refreshing? Yanko
Damboulev writes eloquently of these Hetchins names on the CR list...
Magnum Opus, Millennium, Scorpion Bonum, Novus Doctor...are we describing the
chill Gothic refectories or a chemical laboratory? Names like these
suggest indigestible activity; it is a stomach probe. Names purely mechanical,
radioactive, dead, sterile and sexless. Words that are like a necklace of dead
nightingales, will not transmit, will not relinquish joy. A dead nightingale
teaches nobody how to sing.
Marque: Flash' Hetchins site
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