Story to warm your cockles

Harrybelafonte

There's always car forum threads about barn finds, well here's a bike basement find

http://cyclingwmd.blogspot.com/2007/09/main-reason-why-i-have-what-i-have.html

Lumen

Very entertaining, don't really know what to make of that.

I have a suspicion those amazing old track bikes may have ended up "flopped and dropped" or whatever and palped around the streets of NYC by hipster types. Whether this (ab)use is better than keeping them nicely preserved in an attic I'm not sure...

His "Bitchin' Blogs from the Bros!" links are interesting.

Harrybelafonte

Lumen wrote: »

Very entertaining, don't really know what to make of that.

I have a suspicion those amazing old track bikes may have ended up "flopped and dropped" or whatever and palped around the streets of NYC by hipster types. Whether this (ab)use is better than keeping them nicely preserved in an attic I'm not sure...

His "Bitchin' Blogs from the Bros!" links are interesting.

I'm not a fan of trailer queened cars and would feel the same thing about bikes, as long as some spanner isn't doing bar spins over gaps etc with them (that's a game for tougher bikes) I'm okay with them being ridden. He does seem to keep them in mint condition. Did you check his flickr page?

The other blogs, well what can I say...

redmaxi

Thanks for that, i've been reading this and the links on it ALL morning - very good !