VINTAGE BICYCLE PHOTOS

[skoda]

Needed to re-add these since my first photobucket account went bonkers and I abandoned ship.

 

[skoda]

 

[skoda]

 

[Markm]

that last one has to be a relative of chopper olli

 

[crackedpiston]

I LOVE IT!!! Some good history there. I guess there was a time when the bicycle was regarded as a serious substitute the motor car, not that it isn't now, I guess you just don't really see ladies in office gear riding through the streets... just hairy dudes in spandex... uuuurrrggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!

Oh yeah, and is it just me, or were mud guards invented AFTER tarmac was invented...? It would have been a pretty grubby ride to work in the morning!

 

[tomb]

Has anyone played with the new "TIME-LIFE" Photo archives on google now?
"Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google"
http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Be warned you will waste HOURS on this f your anything like me...
Lets see what "bicycle" brings up-
whoa!
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=bicycle+source:life&imgurl=00657bf49d847a88
creepy clown!
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=bicycle+source:life&imgurl=09b4b27b2db9235f

Sorry- the forum isnt liking the google image links, advice Steve?
-tom

 

[xddorox]

Be warned you will waste HOURS on this f your anything like me...
Lets see what "bicycle" brings up-
whoa!

-tom

What have you done? Now I have another place to lose my life in...thanks Tom

 

[Rat Rod]

 

[davidhud29]

 

[37fleetwood]

great thread, sorry if any of these are duplicates, I can't remember everything I saw posted.

some of the stuff I gathered when I was redoing my 1944 Dayton

some other stuff

 

[37fleetwood]

a few more

I have much more if anyone wants let me know.
Scott 8)

 

[sensor]

thanks for posting the scan of the dayton :mrgreen:
i think i need to do another tank for mine now though.........

 

[aka_locojoe]

Old newspaper articles about bicycles here http://www.flickr.com/photos/20832301@N ... 2796/show/

 

[BOUNCER]

very nice these vintage pics!!

 

[B607]

Check out the bars on 95% of these bikes. Can you say "peer pressure"? 8) This is Chicago, and I'm guessing late 30's or maybe 40's even. Look how high the seats are jacked up on some of those bikes. :mrgreen: B607

 

[Markm]

 

[ej599]

Check out the bars on 95% of these bikes. Can you say "peer pressure"? 8) This is Chicago, and I'm guessing late 30's or maybe 40's even. Look how high the seats are jacked up on some of those bikes. :mrgreen: B607

That is one of the coolest group pics of bikes I've ever seen. Any details?

 

[cashman]

Most of them have the handlebars mounted backwards. Must have been the "in-thing" back then?

 

[JoeyMac]

I think it will be the "in-thing" NOW, everyone is going to want to do that now that we've seen that photo! It's going to replace the boardtracker style flipped bars

 

[37fleetwood]

reminds me of when everyone used to flip the bars on the 10 speeds back in the day.
Scott 8)