In the beginning...

This is the Archer Bicycle blog! Welcome to the first of many posts. I just found this wonderful 1953 Raleigh Sports vintage bicycle with a Sturmey-Archer 3-speed rear hub and am planning to restore it. For now I have been using it to get around the neighborhood, which has been a revelation, simply because the last time I owned a bike with a kickstand was when I was a kid! Then in the mid-1980s Mountain Bikes started to appear in my local Bike Shop and I ended up having a bike shed full of mountainbike race bikes. I realized recently that I really missed having a practical bike in the 'stable' and thus started the search that led to this....