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Any 'cycling in print' collectors?

  • 03-05-2017 10:53AM
    #1
    Cyclingtourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I collect printed material, books, booklets, sales catalogues, advertising material, etc. related to cycling from the early days (oldest item is a Road Book dated 1884), particularly but not exclusively Irish related.

    I was just wondering if there's anyone else on Boards that shares my interest.

    My interest is more in the social history aspect and will try posting in the history forum also.

    ????


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  • #2
    Cyclingtourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    Right, eight years and no reply.

    My collecting interest appears to be unique although I know it isn't as it's becoming harder and harder to find collectable material. 🤥



  • #3
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,796 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    only got about 20 years of the official tour de france programs mostly including the extra bits. they are used but not sure what to with them now.

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #4
    Cyclingtourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123716064#Comment_123716064

    My interest is more in the social history aspect of cycling than in the racing side although I do have TdF official programs for the 1958 Tour (in French) in which Shay Elliot finished 48th. and also have a couple of ones (in English) from 1998 (TdF en Irlande).

    You could always put yours up on Ebay.

    Mostly I collect printed material books, magazines, cyclist's maps, bicycle trade catalogues, advertising and cycling road guides from the late 19th C. up to the late 20th C.

    Getting harder to find good stuff I haven't already got.



  • #5
    8valve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,013 ✭✭✭8valve


    People nowadays would probably be astounded by how important the bike was, as a means of transport, prior to the motoring and car-ownership boom that took off in the 1950s.

    For many, it was the only means of transport and changed the social landscape forever in the early 20th century.

    Smooth surfaced roads? Originally designed with the bicycle in mind.

    Pneumatic tyres? Yep, that was for bikes first.

    Cyclists and bikes on the road are now seen as an inconvenience/annoyance, rather than mankind's geatest form of transportation engineering for personal freedom and maintaining health.



  • #6
    Cyclingtourist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123723296#Comment_123723296

    The pneumatic tyre wasn't 'for bikes first' it was invented and patented by Scot Robert W. Thomson in the mid-1840s for use on heavy goods vehicles but wasn't a commercial success and quickly fell out of use. John Boyd Dunlop, also Scottish by birth, re-invented it for tricycles and bicycles over forty years later but only discovered Thomson's earlier patent when he went to patent his tyre.

    BTW Thomson also invented the refillable fountain pen. ✒️

    I agree that the role of the bicycle in modernisation, particularly 1890-1914, is under appreciated. It was a significant factor in expanding the gene-pool and female liberation.



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