Showing posts with label vintage bikes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage bikes. Show all posts

Bike Blog-A Night at the Bike Museum

Design Model, ca. 1871
Height: 14"
Possibly English



They were BLINGIN HARD back in the late 19th Century ya know...Tell me any one of yall wouldn't roll this so everybody could check yall out..I love this :) When I saw this FREAK SHOW, I thought of this song...because.."This design has me goin' in CIRCLES." Play the video and ABSORB the funk of this design.



Phantom Velocipede, ca. 1869
Reynolds & Mays, London
England



Velocipede Tricycle, 1868
Michaux & Cie., Paris
France

OH MY! This is HOOOT!

 
 

American Wheelman

Sorry I have been away for a minute yall. But I am still working on giving this blog a new look. I have searched through literally HUNDREDS of template and I like the 'Newspaper Look' you now see! I came across a cycling club called American Wheelman. As you remember from a prior post, this organization is the descendant of the League of American Wheelman which regulated the sport of Bicycle Racing in its' heydat of the late 1890s. They gave up control of the league when a rival league was formed by disgruntled racers headed up by bicycle racer Floyd McFarland, who also happened to be Major Taylor's fiercest rival on the bicycle track. Below are vintage pictures from back in the day and, of course, with comments from your fearless blogger- ME!




Now this design is HOOOOTTTTT! High arching tubing.....R U KIDDING ME?






A mix of early bicycle models!







Little girl on an early tricycle model- Chillin!





She straight ganstar ain't she?




FOLLOW THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD! Ain't this a Munchskin from the Wizard of Oz?





Dang girl- That corsett looks like it is SQUASHING YOU- BREATHE HONEY!