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first japanese bulit train made in 1960

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the first ever laser invented was made on 16 may 1960

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space facts from the 1960's!

1) The universe has a flat Geometry.

2) Rings were discovered around planets other than Saturn

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Neil Armstrong: one giant leap for mankind Armstrong is ready to plant the first human foot on another world.

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Walsh and Piccard Become the First to Explore the Deepest Place on Earth

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1960's calculator

A 1960's calculator has a heap of buttons on them. Calculator designing has changed a lot in the past 50 years.

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This is a cassette tape in 2015 but the first cassette tape was produced in 1940s by RCA victor. over 2.4 million players were sold

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most powerful earthquake ever recorded hits chile 22nd of may 1960

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Bikes in 2015

The bikes in 2015 are newer because it has gears and the 1960s ones do not. This bike also has bigger tyres then the 1960s bicycles

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Prehistoric Fat Bike

I'm a Minnesotan and have competed in winter bike races. I also have a couple of friends that used to do the Alaskan Iditarod bike event back in the early 1990's. I thought that I had seen, and maybe even ridden, two of the very first bikes designed for riding on snow (that are now referred to as "Fat Bikes".

My friend Mike Madden raced the Iditabike a number of times, and he had a Fat Chance mountain bike fitted with double rims (two regular mountain bike rims, welded together so that a 26 x 2" tire would spread out and provide a bigger footprint in the snow). It felt slow to me, but on top of hard-packed snow it just cruised.

Erik Noren, the gifted artisan behind Peacock Groove custom bicycles once worked at QBP (the bicycle wholesaler behind Surly bikes) in Minneapolis. I had the chance to ride the first snow bike that Erik ever made. That Peacock Groove bike was a hoot to ride around through the Minneapolis autumn leaves, and I understood what a game changer a bike like that would be for a cyclist who had to endure a midwest winter. Surly and some QBP employees must have come to the same conclusion too, as Surly was pretty blatant in copying many of Erik's design elements for the first Surly Pugsley.

Now I have to admit that neither of these bikes were even close to being the first fat bikes.

Check out this photo that Jeff unearthed from the 1940's.

Looks like the rider is headed for the beach, not snow...

Ted Smith's Claude Butler Olympic Sprint

In the bike shop we sometimes get questions about this old bike racer named Claude Butler who seemed to be so famous in the 1940′s and '50′s. We'll try to set the record straight with this example.
Claude Butler is the guy who built this bike and Ted Smith is the one who raced it.
Ted Smith was quite an accomplished track racer, winning the Omnium at the National Championships in 1945, '47 and again in 1948. Additionally, Ted was a member of the U.S. Olympic Team at the 1948 London Games.

Ted was slated to ride the road race as well as the team pursuit at the London games. Politics and personal conflicts have derailed many Olympic plans over the years, and Ted's experience in 1948 was no exception. National team coaches dropped Ted from the road race roster after he competed in local pre-Olympic British races against their instructions... Ted, primarily a track guy, complained that he merely needed some miles on his road bike to get used to operating a derailleur.

Ted did end up racing in the 4000 meter team pursuit event, with the U.S. Squad getting 9th place with a best time of 5:22.
To give you an idea of how aerodynamics, bicycle technology, training and even the technology involved with modern helmets and clothing has progressed in bike racing over the years, here is a comparison: The U.S. womens team did the 4000m team pursuit in Rio in a time of 4:14. That's fast enough to lap the '48 mens team 4 times on the 250 meter Rio velodrome.

1960 Wilier Triestina Junior

Aw, isn't this a cute little bike?

Perfect for the first-grader who wanted to beat the school bus home.
This was the race-ready rig for the rider who wanted to keep up with all of the older kids in the neighborhood.

It can be difficult to find a good little road bike for kids, even today. In the late '50′s and early '60′s kids typically had to choose between small balloon-tire bikes and mid-weight "English Racers". The kid who originally owned this one was pretty lucky, considering that his bike weighed about half as much as other options and boasted some fine features.

We aren't sure which parts were available off the shelf and which of this stuff was custom. Actually, the handlebar stem was obviously custom as it sports a nice Wilier crest. The handlebars, stem, saddle, brake levers, pedals and crank arms are all reduced in size and perfectly proportional. The drivetrain is a 4-speed, with a Campione Gian Robert rear derailleur and a single shift lever. The 22″ wheels run on tubular (sew-up) tires like any real racing bike, and the bike even came with a matching pump.

Wilier Triestina is an Italian brand that was founded in 1906 in Bassano del Grappa. Since the beginning Wilier took racing bikes very seriously. Offering a junior-sized racing bike would have been a natural choice for a company that has backed bike racers for 100 years. Today it's the U.S. based United Health Care team, but 20 years ago it was Marco Pantani, and in the '40′s it was Giro d'Italia winner Fiorenzo Magni.

1955 Norman

Bicycles are more fun than bombs.

In the aftermath of WWII, England needed some fun. Fun and jobs. Converting English industry from war material manufacturing into peacetime products was the name of the game.

The 1950s saw the creation of the British Cycle Corporation under the Tube Investments Group. The T.I. group owned bike brands like Sun, Phillips, Hercules, Robin Hood, Armstrong, and Norman Cycles (and would later merge with Raleigh).

Here in the United States we wanted to help re-industrialize post-war England, so tariffs on consumer goods like bicycles from England were light or nonexistant. Around 95 percent of all bikes imported into the States in the 1950′s came from England. Bikes like this 1955 Norman "English Roadster" came to the States by the boat load.

Built with light steel (for a 1950′s era bike) and sporting thin tires and three speeds, this Norman would have been considered a fast bike. Compared to the big and heavy (but popular) balloon-tire bikes of the American '50′s, English bikes seemed to offer something different.
A quick look at the back pages of a Schwinn catalogue of the era would show a few American versions of this style on offer, but American bicycle brands (like their automotive counterparts) didn't want to sell practical or efficient. American brands wanted to sell you something with white wall tires, fins, and a lot of chrome.

Jeanne (Robinson) Omelenchuk's custom 1960 road racing bike

This is another bike that was made by George Omelenchuk for his wife Jeanne, an Olympic-level champion cyclist and speedskater.

Check out the other two Omelenchuks in this museum section. Go ahead. We'll wait.

Notice a trend here? It probably goes without saying, but Jeanne must have been pretty special to George. Nothing looks easy on any of these bikes. It seems that George went out of his way to fabricate every last bit of Jeanne's bikes from scratch, or at least give everything a custom touch or two.

One of the notable features on this bike is the finish. This is a chromed steel bicycle, but it doesn't look like any typical bit of chromed steel. Instead of polishing the chrome to a mirror finish (as is typical), Omelenchuk left most of the chrome plating in the natural pebbled state that occurs midway through the chroming process, and then completed the look with pin striping around the lugs and select polishing.

The wheels are customized for Jeanne and very hand-made. Not just pick-out-the-parts-and-lace-them-up hand made either. George cast the aluminum hub shells himself, producing hubs that were extremely wide by the standards of the day (heck, they're wide by today's standards, and we pack 11 cogs onto modern rear hubs). The rims were drawn or rolled or whatever the term is by George himself, and were lightened up for Jeanne with 32 half-inch holes machined out of the rim walls between each spoke eyelet. The spokes may be off the shelf (George made his own spokes for Jeanne's track bike), we can't be certain. We are certain that the spokes are wire-tied at each crossing and soldered for extra rigidity.

We have seen a lot of really great work by bike mechanics and wheel builders over the years. Cees Beers did some amazing things with his ADA wheels starting in the mid '90′s, building custom carbon-fiber wheels for clients like Bjarne Riis or Jan Uhlrich. Master builders (and former race circuit pros) like Calvin Jones at Park Tools or Ric Hjertberg from Wheelsmith were the best. But these guys all look lazy compared to George Omelenchuk. George would take materials that were already on the cutting edge of technology, re-work the material and design from scratch, just to squeeze a little more performance out of them for just one rider.

1945 Schwinn New World

When you have an American-made bike and name it the "World Traveler" you conjure up images of trips taken abroad. You make people think about exploring the countryside and seeing new things. The "World Traveler" was a great bicycle name to sell Americans in the latter half of the 20th century.
In the 1930′s and '40′s, however, Schwinn wanted potential bike buyers to think American. The "New World" meant America. As in "Take this bike and see what America has to offer". As in "Don't buy any Old World brand, buy something American-made and ride it on your own streets".
Before there was a Schwinn World Traveler model, Schwinn offered a bike called the New World.

Schwinn's New World models were a great attempt to get American adults on bicycles, and to get them on something other than a British Raleigh.

The New World models featured comfortable upright riding positions and lots of user-friendly touches. You had light but robust wheels. Coaster brakes for the back wheels and drum brakes up front. There were chain guards and matching fenders. On this particular version you had two speed shifting with the New Departure rear hub and its top-tube mounted control lever.

There isn't much chrome on this bike. A few people have asked us if the blacked-out parts on a war-era bicycle were an attempt to avoid being spotted from above during air raids. No, those parts had a dull appearance for more mundane reasons. The chrome plating process for shiny bicycle parts uses chromium, nickel, and copper. All materials that were needed in manufacturing other items for the war effort.

For American bicycle manufacturers, World War II meant streamlined model offerings and no catalogs. It meant stripped-down models that used less metal. While Schwinn wasn't worried about sparkly bicycles being seen during air raids, they did modify their production. Some bicycle builders actually constructed items needed for the war effort. Some manufacturers like Schwinn maintained their core business but worked around rationed, scarce and restricted materials while the war was going on.

Jeanne (Robinson) Omelenchuk's 1956 track bike

This bike was made by George Omelenchuk for his wife Jeanne, who was a champion cyclist and speedskater. Among the notable achievements in her athletic career Jeanne won 16 national speed skating titles, five cycling national champion titles (the first women to win the national championship in two major sports), and competed on three Olympic teams.

In order to be competitive in cycling you need good equipment. Jeanne had the best. Her husband George, along with brothers Walter and Tony, operated one of the most outrageously capable bike and sporting goods shops in the country. Needed a part? They'd make it. Something broken? They'd fix it. George, a skilled gunsmith and clockmaker, had legendary machining ability which is proudly on display here.

The wheels are really hand-made. From forging the hub shells to fabricating axles and rims, these wheels were made from scratch. The rims are real beauties. George lightened up the already svelte extrusion with some precise drill work (by the way, the wheels are still true). The laced wheels were then tied & soldered at the spoke crosses. The front hub has the same super-wide stance as the rear wheel (130mm front and back, which is outrageous for a track bike).

The dual-plate fork crown looks great as does the gracefully curved handlebars and stem.

Hey, check out the Campagnolo model Brooks saddle! No kidding. This is one of the rarest saddle models you can find.

1940′s Grieder Flyer Tricycle

Your first bike was probably a trike.
If you were a lucky little kid in the 1940′s you may have had a tricycle like this one.

If you were really lucky, mom would let you cruise around your block (No crossing the street! Stay on the sidewalk!) on your own.
This Grieder Flyer would have been a pretty sweet ride. Built with care and precision in Bowling Green Ohio, The Flyer was deluxe.

The solid wheels must have made this trike super fast, what with aerodynamics like a modern carbon fiber disc wheel. Sure, it's hard to get a tricycle going over 4mph when your legs are only 18 inches long, but with this spoke-less design you had the added benefit that with no spokes you were less likely to get your shoelaces stuck.

The Flyer came with a fender, so you could aim for the puddles, not avoid them! The rear deck (the backbone of all high-performance tricycles) could handle scooter-style riding or carrying extra passengers with ease.

John Butterfield's 1954 Peugeot

A high point during bicycling's lowest time.

Not many adults rode bicycles in America in 1954. Percentage-participation might have been better, but overall the fewest adults got out on a bike in the mid '50′s. Our friend John Butterfield was an exception, and we have some great pictures that prove he was riding his Peugeot racing bike around San Diego decades before cyclists documented every ride with Strava and a GoPro camera.

When not working for the Navy, John raced at the amateur level (pretty well too, as he just missed making it onto the 1956 U.S. Olympic team). He and his Peugeot tore it up in the Chicago area and on the west coast. Bill Jacoby coached John, and considered him to be a good sprinter. Besides racing, John kept bicycle wheels spinning even when he wasn't riding. John served the sport by managing the velodrome in San Diego and sitting on the American Bicycling League and United States Cycling Federation boards.

This old Peugeot is a good one. Outfitted with Simplex's LJ543 derailleur (named for Simplex chief Lucien Juy), a rod-actuated front derailleur, light weight racing wheels with Super Course rims and silky smooth hubs. The bike has some solid equipment from a time when performance and reliability were suspect qualities for road bikes

The rear derailleur deserves some notice. The LJ543 was really the best mechanism that Simplex ever came up with. Two cables operate the derailleur. Remove the steel cover plate, and you'll see a steel pull chain (like on a 3-speed hub) sliding through the grease-filled compartment while it actuates the telescoping pulley arm. The second cable rotates the pulley arm, fine-tuning the chain tension.

Tough as nails, the LJ543 could handle up to 5 cogs on the back wheel with a 12 tooth spread. The 1955 Paris-Roubaix race was won aboard a LJ543 equipped bike, as was the mountainous Galibier stage of the Tour de France.

Sorry to break it to those of you who adored your mid-1960′s Peugeots and Gitanes, but the plastic derailleurs that Simplex came up with in those years were pieces of junk.

1953 & 1954 Schwinn Panthers

These are the bikes that every successful paperboy in the country aspired to own in the mid 1950′s. Schwinn Panthers.

There is a funny story about collecting things that goes along with these bikes. Jeff Groman, who owns these bikes and much of the rest of our museum collection, didn't realize that he had two Panthers.

Jeff had bought the first bike sometime in the early 1990′s and had it on public display for years. The bike was up on a wall in a Kingston, Washington pizza parlor and Jeff simply forgot about it.

A decade later a lady asked Jeff if he wanted to buy the old bike she had kicking around in her garage, and what do you know? It was a Panther. Another decade goes by, the pizza place remodels (giving Jeff his bike back) and now two nearly identical bikes are hanging from the rafters in Jeff's barn.

This past December Classic Cycle held a museum night event and we wanted some balloon-tire bikes to show off. Jeff grabs one of the Panthers for us, but a mystery had sprung up. Where did the 2-speed hub come from? The 2-speed was a deluxe option that he was pretty sure he never had!

So we check out the serial number. It turns out that the bike in the stand is a model year newer than the placard we had to go with it. What the heck? An extensive search of the storage held the answer: 2 bikes.

The Schwinn Panther was an awesome bike that had it all. Just like Pee-Wee Herman's big adventure bike, the Panther came with chrome fenders, a luggage rack, springer fork, lntegrated lock, headlight, chainguard and a horn in the "gas" tank. Our 1954 version came with the New Departure 2-speed hub option. This was a smart upgrade that made the 65 pound bike just a little more efficient when toiling up and over neighborhood hills.

1940′s Vanoli Randonneur

Hey, all of you Randonneurs out there are going to love this bike. Perfect for your local French-World War-One-Reenactment-bike-rides brevets, this Vanoli has it all.

650b-sized wheels, the latest miracle wheel size for mountain bikes, came standard on this 70 year old classic. The aluminum Lefol fenders have a nice looking dimpled finish. The elegant front and rear racks stylishly hold just enough stuff to complete a 500km randonée. Check out the industrial hose employed as handlebar grips and the sweet bar-top brake levers.

As for the drivetrain, the Simplex Touriste derailleur in back and rod-actuated front shifter manages a staggering 6-gear spread. Probably the most interesting tokens on this bike are in the cockpit area.

On the top tube we have an event medal, perhaps from Paris-Brest-Paris (it's a bit worn and hard to make out) and on the handlebar stem we have a circular nameplate that identifies the rider. Looks like this bike belonged to Paul Crestel, and he lived at 71 Avenue du General Leclerc in Bourg-La-Reine.

Warren Bare's 1948 Claud Butler Avant Coureur

This bike was originally owned by a cyclist from Reading, Pennsylvania named Warren Bare.

An excellent regional level racer, Warren won a national amatuer title, and won the Pennsylvania state championship multiple times.

The frame builder, Claud Butler, first opened his bike shop in London in 1928. Claud was an innovator, and he pioneered many of the designs that we still use today. Butler modernized frame design by shortening wheelbases and shifting the bike more upright from standard 69 degree seat tube and fork angles. He developed a short wheel-base tandem in 1935 (check out our version elsewhere in this museum section) and he engineered a ride able three-speed adult tricycle.

This model, the Avant Coureur, first appeared as a stock model in 1948 and featured "bi-laminate" lugged construction. What is a bi-laminate lug? Glad you asked. I think Claud Butler actually preferred to bronze weld tubing together when he made frames. Tubing angles could be custom, the joints were smooth and plenty strong. Problem is, everyone thought that the more ornate tube-brazed-into-fancy-lug construction was better simply because it was fancier or more expensive. So for this Avant Coureur model, the customer would get a frame that was welded together, and then had fancy flat steel "lugs" cut and wrapped around each joint. Extra strong, extra fancy, more money.

Warren's bike has some other great features. There are the nice lightweight racing wheels built with Harden hubs (an early design that used sealed cartridge bearings). The hubs are fastened with neat Cyclo wingnuts.

There is the Simplex Tour de France derailleur on the back, managing a spread of 4 whole gears (by the way, we actually have the chain routed incorrectly through the derailleur in our photos. We know. No angry bike-nerd emails please). The Bowden brakes mounted to this bike are really light, simple looking, and yet they stop on a shilling..

1940′s Colson Flyer

The restoration project.

Everybody loves good before and after photos. A bicycle restoration project is great at showing the damage that the decades can do, and you get to watch as that damage is erased with fresh paint or new chrome.

A while back, this balloon-tire cruiser came to us as a rusty old relic. The years were not kind to the old Colson. While the rust was not deep, it was everywhere. The owner, a fellow named Gerald Taylor, had a history with the bike and wanted to return the Flyer to its former glory.

Gerald's father had purchased the bike upon returning to the Seattle area from the second World War. Affordable cars were hard to come by in the months following the end of the war, and Gerald's father figured he could get around on these two wheels just as well as he could with four. The bike served as a trusty commuter for a number of years before transitioning to recreational use, and finally retiring to the back of the garage.

The wheels were beyond repair. By removing the head badge and the reflectors, we were able to find clean bits of original paint, so the new colors would match. Parts were stripped off of the frame, and the dents were rolled out of the fenders.

Off to the painter (CycleSmith) went the frame, fork, fenders, and chainguard.

Into the recycling went the chain, pedals, and wheels.

Rusty bits like the chainring, seatpost, fork struts, handlebars and stem made their way to the chrome shop (Art's chroming in Bremerton).

Some of the parts that you find on old bikes are still made today. No problem getting a Wald kickstand, and the reproductions of the pedals and saddle are well worth the price. Appropriate fasteners are just a quick trip to the hardware store (no allen bolts or torx heads on sixty year old bikes, thank you).

Jeff, who started collecting balloon-tire bikes decades ago, dug up some great matching wheels and tires from a "donor" bike. Fresh grease for the hubs and some new spokes made them roll and look just right.

Now, I'd like to say this was a quick project. But it wasn't.

Sometimes it takes a while to find the right parts. You have to get on a painter's schedule (some have months-long backlogs), and it takes a while to get chrome done (Art's is actually quite fast). You may have seen the car and motorcycle restoration shows on television where things move lightning fast. They use an editor.

I truly wish we were able to finish this bike sooner, as Gerald missed the opportunity to see his beautiful bike all spruced up. Gerald fell ill and passed away a few weeks before we were able to finish the project.

The "After" photo is the way this bike would have looked when Gerald's dad first brought it home.
This bike is for sale from the museum collection. It can be yours, fully restored, for $1500.
Anthony Brothers Convert-O-Trike

Relatively unchanged for 65 years, the Convert-O-Tricycle is one sweet ride (and still available).

Made top to bottom out of cast aluminum, these tricycles are built to last. The rear deck can be removed quite easily and replaced with just one of the rear wheels, creating a tough little bike. Pedaling and balancing in bicycle mode is a bit tricky given that the pedals are directly attached to the front wheel (pedaling action will fight steering input and vice-versa).

Industrial engineer Tony Anthony (his parents really did name their son Anthony Anthony) developed his invention in the late 1940′s while working for the family refridgeration business.

Since the Convert-O-Trikes have remained the same for so long, it's nearly impossible to judge the exact vintage by outward appearances. Based on the previous owner's recollection, we happen to know that this particular trike is from the 1960′s.

1957 Lenton (Raleigh) Gran Prix

Raleigh made the Lenton collection of club-racer style bikes for fifteen years. Promoted by Britain's greatest cyclist of the era (and Raleigh spokesman) Reg Harris, the Lenton was a popular ride.
Club racers like this one represent a great era in British cycling. Earlier road models, typically outfitted with 3-speed hubs, handled slowly and were great for touring, but not for racing. Later eras saw British bikes that were more specialized. You had racing bikes with stiff upright frame geometry or stretched out touring bikes like those found on the continent. Club racers like the Lenton could do it all.

The versatile design of the Gran Prix made the bike feel right at home, whether it was touring Welsh country lanes, negotiating its way through an American pack race or cruising a London time trial course.
This Reg Harris signature model has a lot of great bits. The frame was made from Reynolds 531 tubing. There's frame pegs to hold the pump. Bluemels fenders. A Brooks saddle.

The steel crank set features the Raleigh heron stamped into the chainrings, and of course there's the Benelux rear derailleur. It has a plunger-style actuator operated by a pull chain and manages 4 gears in the back. The front shifting (with a 3-tooth gear difference) is handled by a Benelux rod operated front derailleur.

All in all a fine bike with a really long given name (The Raleigh Lenton (Marque III) Gran Prix Reg Harris Road Model).

1963 Dick Power

Seriously?

If you can't get throught this post without making crude jokes maybe you should skip ahead and look at the Schwinn Stingray instead.

Dick Power was a bike shop owner who made and sold some great racing bikes. His store was located in the Sunnyside neighborhood in Queens, and it was a center for the New York City and Long Island racing community in the '40′s, '50′s, and '60′s.

This is the most unusual design we have seen come out of Dick Power's frame shop. Built for a tall rider with a pretty powerful sprint, extra seat stays made for a rock solid rear "triangle", and limited any top tube twist.

The wheels, built by Dick or another unknown mechanic, have held up beautifully. They are tied and soldered at the crosses (by a very skilled hand) and each tie point was then painted red to match the frame finish. Tying and soldering spokes used to be a common wheel building procedure. By bracing the spokes together, the wheels resisted twisting forces better, and spokes broke less frequently.

Dick made this bike with the intention that Arnie "The Governor" Uhrlass would ride it. Arnie was a fierce and pretty successful competitor (hence the nickname). Dick built this track bike for Arnie to ride at the Olympic trials, but we're pretty sure Arnie rode something different for his event (4000 meter pursuit) at the games.

Arnie was a member of both the 1960 winter Olympic team (speed skating), and the 1964 summer Olympic team (track cycling). As one of a very limited pool of athletes to excel at multiple disciplines, it shouldn't be surprising to know that Arnie is an inductee in both the U.S. bicycling and skating Halls of Fame.

1950′s Sid Patterson

This elegant chrome track bike is named after Sid Patterson.

Sid was one of the greatest cyclists to come out of Australia. He represented Australia at the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Sid won world championship titles on the track while an amateur and as a professional. In 1949 he won the world amateur sprint championship in Copenhagen, and in 1950, the world amateur pursuit championship. In 1952 and '53 Patterson won the world championship in the pursuit again. By his final year of racing in 1967 he had 12 consecutive Australian championships titles to his name.

Sid was sponsored by the Malvern Star bike company for most of his bike racing carreer, so it is a little surprising to see that his signature bike has the insignia A.B.C. We don't have much information about the origin of this chrome beauty, so if anyone out there knows something about it, we'd be happy to hear from you.

1964 Carlton Catalina

Fred Hanstock founded Carlton Cycles in the North Nottinghamshire village of
Carlton-in-Lindrick in 1898. A bike brand that spanned the better part of the twentieth century, Carlton's heyday began after World War Two and lasted through the late 1950′s, with the company selling lightweight hand-crafted bikes under their own label and secretly supplying bikes to other manufacturers as well. The company was purchased by Raleigh in 1960, and continued under Raleigh ownership until the early '80′s.

This particular bike is a nice sporty model from 1964, the Catalina. Visually a really interesting bike with Capella model lugs, that have really long and pronounced points, and a neat wrapover band at the seat tube and top tube junction.

Other interesting bits include the GB Maes handlebar stem with the centerpull brake cable stop and the bright and shiny chrome Williams cottered crankset.

1948 Schwinn Paramount Track Tandem

Schwinn's Paramount division built this track bike for Jack Simes II in 1948.

Jack II is the second generation of four generations of a fantastically talented cycling family. Jack Senior, Jack II, and Jack III all together had multiple national records, championship medals, and olympic berths (there is a Jack IV, and he is making his way as a bike racer too).

Simes partnered with his protege Jack Heid and tore up the track with this bike.

It was the first "Paramount" tandem ever built (Schwinn had made tandems for casual cyclists before, but nothing from the Paramount racing branch of the company).

The fillet brazed lugs are magnificent, and the design of the bike was quite versatile, with enough clearance for large tires so that Jack and Jack could race on the occasional dirt track.

By the way, in the family photo, notice the little boy standing by the front handlebars? That's Jack Simes III, and he makes another appearance in this museum section with our photo of the 1960 Olympic cycling team and the 1960 Paramount tandem...

Tommy Smeriglio's 1940′s Dick Power

You. At the back of the class. No snickering.

Dick Power made and sold some great racing bikes in the middle part of the last century. Dick Power cycles was located in the Sunnyside neighborhood in Queens, and was a center for New York City and the Long Island racing community.

Sometime in the 1940′s Dick made this trusty racing bike for local star Tommy Smeriglio. While not one of the prettiest bikes in the museum collection, this battered and bruised bike probably has the most race wins of any of our bikes stored up in its old tubes.

A very active amatuer racer on the east coast, Tommy specialized in long distance timed events and road races. He raced in pretty much every bike race the Unione Sportiva Italiana held between 1938 and 1952, and set numerous records while doing so. He won the 1938 USI two-hour team time trial, the 1939 Cocce Memorial 25 mile time trial, a 1943 USI 200 mile time trial, the 1946 USI sprint series, and the 1950 Worcester road race.

Charlie Bergna's "Hill Cycle"

This is Charlie Begna's 1940s era Urago track bike.

Sometimes history isn't pretty, as this bike proves. Rough lugs. An ugly saddle. Road bars on a track bike. A brake bridge that has been hastily added to the bike, so it could be used on the road. The components and design are tough and well used, but not very elegant. For example, the aluminum-clad wooden welt meister rims were strong and fairly light, but don't show off the beauty of the wood or a shiny refined extrusion of the metal.

Repaired and repainted by Jerry Casale at Hill Cycle in Philadelphia, this bike is historically significant not by what it is, but by who owned it and who worked on it. Charlie, the rider, and Jerry, the shop owner, helped to keep bike racing alive in this country during some otherwise dark decades for the sport.

Charlie was the national champion in 1937, and had a professional career that spanned the war and into the late 1940s. Charlie won numerous six-day races, including the Winnepeg Six in 1948 and Cleveland in 1949. After his cycling career had finished, Charlie was one of Raleigh bicycle's first two traveling sales representatives. His vast sales territory included the entire eastern half of the United States.

Jerry's family started Hill Cycle in Philly in 1929. Through trips to Europe and in consultation with professionals, Hill Cycle became the premier shop in the area, full of the latest top quality products that no one else had. They staged early races such as the Keystone Open, and were instrumental in starting the Philadelphia International Championship (once known as CoreStates, the U.S. pro championship), one of the biggest races in the country.

1953 Huffy

Huffy was founded in 1887 when George Huffman purchased the Davis Sewing Machine Company and moved its factory to Dayton, Ohio. In 1894, Huffman adapted the factory to manufacture bicycles, and sold them for the next sixty years as the "Dayton" brand.

1953 is the first year that Huffman's company made bikes with the "Huffy" name.

Over the decades, Huffy Bicycles has had factories in California, Oklahoma, and Ohio. At their peak, they produced over two million bicycles (or as some of us called them, bicycle-shaped objects) per year and were the largest bike company in the western hemisphere.

1947 Claud Butler Tandem

This tandem showcases the true engineering genius and artistry of Claud Butler.

This short wheelbase tandem rides like a dream both on the road and on the velodrome.

By building this tandem with clamp-on brakes, and tucking short chain-stays under the stoker, this bike handles great when raced on steeply banked tracks, and is still safe and comfortable to leisurely ride on the open road.

The fillet brazed joints and gracefully curved tubing were some of the finest examples in craftsmanship of the era.

Claud Butler started as a London bike shop owner and frame-builder in 1928. His company was one of the most successful of the inter-war era with his racing bikes grabbing attention at World championships and Olympic games in the 1930s. Ultimately the brand failed in the 1950s as changing British lifestyles and a changing economy took their toll.

1950′s Rochet Touring Bike

Grant Peterson did not develop his Rivendell or earlier Bridgestone bikes in a vacuum. Rivendell's aesthetic sense was formed from bikes like this French Rochet.

Rochet and similar randoneering bikes were made to be comfortable and stable for a few blocks or hundreds of miles. Sensible extras like fenders and luggage racks are standard. Headlights and taillights would let you ride safely around the clock, if that's your thing.

Although this bike is a bit faded and rough, you can see that it was once a real beauty. Great care was taken to design simple and elegant luggage racks for the bike (check out the integrated headlamp cage). A small custom chainguard shelters the riders' pant cuff from the rod-actuated front derailleur and chainrings. The front fork is heavily raked, a design meant to soften the ride across rough cobblestone roads.

Edouard Rochet and his father produced automobiles as well as fabulous bicycles. In Between 1895 and 1901, the company built approximately 240 cars, mostly with single cylinder engines. The motor car production and bicycle producing arms of the company eventually split, with automobiles joining the Berliet company after World War II, and bicycle production continuing under the Rochet name.

Don Hester's late '50s Frejus

Don Hester was one of the most prolific American bike racers in the 1940s. He was the winner of the 1942 "To Hell With The War" unofficial national championship race held at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. Don's bike racing career, like many of his fellow sportsmen, was interrupted when he was subsequently called to active military duty. After the war Don left the Navy and picked up right where he left off, winning every race he entered in 1946, including the official national championship.

This isn't a bike that Don raced on, but a Frejus road model that he bought for himself and rode around on after he retired from racing. The bike is a Frejus road model, built with Reynolds 531 tubing and sporting a Campagnolo Record group and lots of understated Italian style.

Ever wonder what bike to buy for yourself? It's just as easy today as it was sixty years ago. You just take a look at the bike a retired pro picks for himself (and pays for with his own cash)...

Bertrands Trike

Racing adult tricycles in the 40′s, 50′s and 60′s (when they enjoyed modest popularity) must have been a hoot.

When going around corners at speed, the bikes tended to tip up onto 2 wheels. The riders would lean to counterbalance the bike like sailors leaning out over the edge of their catamaran. Heavily crowned roads posed a problem, as the drive wheel on these trikes would sometimes lose contact with the roadway. Beware the British-made (meant for the left side of the road) adult trike when riding on the right side of the street, as the differential won't work to your advantage.

Watch out for Jeff riding by on one of these on slippery winter Bainbridge Island roads. He sometimes chooses the trike since ice and moss pose much less danger with three wheels on the ground...

Bike Appraisals

Have an old bike that you'd like to get appraised?

We can help, but we have a few guidelines that we'd like you to understand.

First, we have no idea what your bike is worth without seeing it. We're just not that smart. Don't call us and try to describe it over the phone. Serial numbers do not help. Instead, you can send us an email (please use complete sentences, we don't do well with abbreviated texts) with some pictures attached or bring your bike in to the store.

To make the appraisal more accurate, prepare the bike and take photos like you would if you were going to sell it. Clean the bike, remove any broken or rough-looking accessories and put some air in the tires.
Take pictures straight on in front of a blank background, and take close-up photos of areas that may generate interest (or confusion).

There is no "Blue Book" value for bicycles. Bikes are simply worth what someone else is willing to pay for them. Bicycle values tend to be highest when the weather is warm, in places where it's pleasant to ride, and wherever there are a lot of people who like bikes.

You know more about your bike than we do. If you just bought a bike for $50, you have just established the value of the bicycle (and you are not likely to be able to sell it for $2000 to somebody else). You know when you bought it, so you have a good idea of the age, and you know if it was a high-end racing model or a basic bike from Walmart.

Rarity rarely helps determine value. If you have a one-of-a-kind bicycle, it may mean that no one has ever heard of it and/or nobody is looking for one.

Popularity is no indicator either. Bikes that were sold in large numbers could fall into one of two camps. You could have a bike that will never sell (Schwinn Varsity) because there are still thousands of them out there, or you could have a bike that will cause a bidding war (Bridgestone MB-1) because people rode them into the ground and they want another one.

If what you're really after is to get rid of an old bike, keep us in mind. While we don't buy bikes outright, we'll likely take your old bike as a trade-in for something new....

About our museum...

The bikes featured in this museum section are privately owned by Jeff Groman and Paul Johnson, as well as other employees and friends of Classic Cycle. We display them in this space to share their beauty and showcase the skill and creativity that went into making them.

This website is not intended to be a research archive. While we like to be accurate in our descriptions, we don't really care if a particular bike was made in 1952 or if it was 1953. A bike built today could be labeled a 2020 or 2021 model. It could be exactly the same as a 2019 model, and may not get sold until 2023. In 50 years it would be really nice if folks just went out for a bike ride and didn't bicker over the exact vintage of their classic bike. In other words, if you're really concerned about manufacturing dates and serial numbers, good for you. Just keep it to yourself.

To the serious bike collectors out there: We don't care if the saddle on our 1972 Colnago isn't "period correct." Enjoy looking at the collection or don't. Plenty of brand new bikes roll out the doors of modern bike shops sporting saddles or bottle cages that were new during the Clinton administration.

Likewise, this museum section is meant to be interesting and entertaining, and we would never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

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