Description

A Chater-Lea motorcycle. Chater-Lea was a British bicycle, car and motorcycle maker. It was founded by William Chater-Lea in 1890 to make bicycle frames and components. It made cars between 1907 and 1922 and motorcycles from 1903 to 1935.


Chater-Lea formally relaunched the company as a UK based high-end bicycle component manufacturer in the spring 2019, according to the companies website and an article appearing in Forbes Magazine. It was announced in January 2020 that the revived Chater-Lea had taken over management of Classic Lightweights a comprehensive online repository on the history of British bespoke bicycle and component manufacture. A rebuilt and redesigned Classic Lightweights site was launched in September 2020.

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