What is that on the fork of the leftmost bike? Some sort of light?
HurricaneWindAttack on
What lovely condition! As if they were locked in a dry trunk and only now pulled out!
PNW_Doug on
Oooh I like. So much to decipher.
* Those curvy drop bars on the right hand fellow’s bike look like modern day Rando bars—and were super comfy I bet.
* That’s also the only bike sporting a handlebar bag, though that one looks pretty small.
* Is that a plastic bottle I spy? Interesting. Makes me realize I have no idea the timeline of modern plastics in such use.
* Those look like home-made mudflaps. Interesting they mounted them only on the front as a frame-saver. No buddy-flaps for these guys!
* Those saddlebags look an awful lot like Carradice Nelson Longflaps. And if so, are still in [production](https://carradice.co.uk/shop/saddlebags/originals-nelson-longflap-saddlebag/?v=7516fd43adaa). I still use traditional Carradice bags for my own [touring](https://i.imgur.com/0HyaTfZ.jpeg).
* The variety in derailleur solutions is interesting. The slant parallelogram we all know and love wasn’t invented until 1964 when Suntour came up with the idea.
* Neat looking and interesting mounting on the left-most bike’s rear light/reflector.
* Looks like a classic Zefal on that one too. Just how long were those pumps in production? **Side note**: Zefal recently stopped making the classic HPX and scrubbed its existence from their site. Hunt one down now if you want one new. They’re vanishing from stock fast.
Thank you very much for posting this. It is absolutely fascinating.
Skuggsja on
These guys are Britons. All the lunacy is there.
– Big Carradice saddle bag
– Sturmey Archer shifter cobbled to a derailleur
– Chater Lea cottered crank
– Fork leg lamp
– (Non-lunacy) Coloral water bottle
Impossible_Ice4779 on
So breathtaking it almost looks staged
llljns on
I’ve just spotted this share now, thanks! It’s lovely to see comments from people picking out the details. It’s from my Great Uncles collection of slides, and I am in the process of restoring them. There are litterally tens of thousands for me to get through, and it’s been fascinating so far.
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What is that on the fork of the leftmost bike? Some sort of light?
What lovely condition! As if they were locked in a dry trunk and only now pulled out!
Oooh I like. So much to decipher.
* Those curvy drop bars on the right hand fellow’s bike look like modern day Rando bars—and were super comfy I bet.
* That’s also the only bike sporting a handlebar bag, though that one looks pretty small.
* Is that a plastic bottle I spy? Interesting. Makes me realize I have no idea the timeline of modern plastics in such use.
* Those look like home-made mudflaps. Interesting they mounted them only on the front as a frame-saver. No buddy-flaps for these guys!
* Those saddlebags look an awful lot like Carradice Nelson Longflaps. And if so, are still in [production](https://carradice.co.uk/shop/saddlebags/originals-nelson-longflap-saddlebag/?v=7516fd43adaa). I still use traditional Carradice bags for my own [touring](https://i.imgur.com/0HyaTfZ.jpeg).
* The variety in derailleur solutions is interesting. The slant parallelogram we all know and love wasn’t invented until 1964 when Suntour came up with the idea.
* Neat looking and interesting mounting on the left-most bike’s rear light/reflector.
* Looks like a classic Zefal on that one too. Just how long were those pumps in production? **Side note**: Zefal recently stopped making the classic HPX and scrubbed its existence from their site. Hunt one down now if you want one new. They’re vanishing from stock fast.
Thank you very much for posting this. It is absolutely fascinating.
These guys are Britons. All the lunacy is there.
– Big Carradice saddle bag
– Sturmey Archer shifter cobbled to a derailleur
– Chater Lea cottered crank
– Fork leg lamp
– (Non-lunacy) Coloral water bottle
So breathtaking it almost looks staged
I’ve just spotted this share now, thanks! It’s lovely to see comments from people picking out the details. It’s from my Great Uncles collection of slides, and I am in the process of restoring them. There are litterally tens of thousands for me to get through, and it’s been fascinating so far.