Copake Auction 2023
31st Annual Bicycle Auction, October 21, 2023
The biggest bicycle auction in the World - 930 LOTS – Bicycles and Bicycle related Collectibles, Parts/Accessories, Ephemera, Art, Photography, and more. Including several major collections from: Margaret Ann Baker (Maryland), Ed Berry (Oregon), Lane Motor Museum (Nashville, TN) and Ed & Marion Gerling Collection.
Address: 266 E Main St., Copake, NY 12516, USA
Contact: https://www.copakeauction.com
Photos: with many thanks Sharon Powell
Veterama Mannheim 2023 - What was it like?
Airport in Germany, 13.-15.10.2023, 5500 expositors, 18 km of lanes between stalls, many and many visitors, when the jumle sale closes our store is empty, all top bikes and parts were sold, we are going home, extreme thanks to all friends from all over the World who visited our exposition, the bigest jumble sale in Europe Veterama Mannheim right now is already a thing of the past, next the same oportunity will be exactly one year from now, thanks again for a good deal and three day non-stop fun. Robert
Come and See US - Veterama Mannheim 13.- 15.10.2023
2023 - Our traditional place - STERBA STORE!
Contakt: http://www.veterama.de/de/home
Plot 3 place FG3/750 together with VELO CLASIC and the biggest german bicycle museum Deutches Fahrradmuseum in Bad Bruckenau.
VELO-CLASSIC – still the same place!!! Plot 3 place FG3/750 Contact: https://velo-classic.de
Our offer for 2023:
- original velocipede - original paint, very good condition
- 3 x high wheel
- 1 x high wheel with suspension system
- 1 x hard tire safety X frame Peugeot
- 1 x hard tire tricycle Peugeot
- 2 x hard tire safety
- 1 x tandem Premier hard tire safety
- 1 x Hirondele retrodirect
- many pneu safety 1900 - 1920
- many sport bicycles 1920 - 1940
- parts, collector items, posters, books....
Lipsheim 2023 - France
A traditional jumble sale in France. Collectors, meetings, sales, wine, sun, bikes, motorcycles, cars....FUN!
32sd INTERNATIONAL CYCLING HISTORY CONFERENCE 2023
32sd ICHC
Live the present, Looking at the past, Thinking about the future
THE CITY OF CREMONA INTERNATIONAL CYCLE HISTORY CONFERENCE
Conference Room Puerari, Museo Civico, Cremona, Italy
May 13-16, 2023
Carlo and Alfredo Azzini, Chairmans
Opening of the conference, Welcome and Daily Notes
Carlo and Alfredo Azzini (IT), 32sd ICHC Chairmans
Draisina – Muzeum Ala Ponsone
Gift of the Calciati Crotti family in 1994, restoration in 2019-22.
Restoration of a Velocipede
Mauro Camosso (IT)
38.OLDTIMER - UND TEILEMARKT 2023 - St. Polten, Austria
A small taster indeed from our Austrian friends. The weather was not good.
Even taking pictures was difficult!
Fahrrad FEST Bad Brückenau 1.Juli 2023 - Germany
The efforts and the good name of the entire family of the owner of the museum, Ivan Sojc, have made the meeting of collectors perhaps the most interesting specialized exchange in Europe within a few years. Today, Fahrrad FEST in Bad Bruckenau, on the premises of a great bicycle museum, is regularly visited by collectors from all over Germany, Austria, Holland, Poland, the Czech Republic, Italy, France, Switzerland and other countries. Take a close look at some photos from the event and make your own judgment based on the quality of the bikes on offer. The number of visitors cannot be compared with the gigantic vintage events for cars or motorcycles, but there are definitely more real bike collectors and buyers here than anywhere else.
Always the first weekend in July, so mark the date July 1, 2024 in your calendar now so you don't miss your chance to be there next year.
Address: Heinrich-von-Bibra-Str. 24, 97769 Bad Brückenau, Germany
Contacts: https://www.deutsches-fahrradmuseum.de
Hockeinheim 2023 - Spring Jumble sale
The most famous European jumble sale VETERAMA also has its spring version. Hockeinheim in Germany, on the racing circuit, where Formula 1 is also raced....
Great weather, great facilities, German organization... and there was a lot to look at and to choose from.
Contact: https://www.veterama.de/en/
The Exposition „Eska is beautiful. Bicycles from Chebu 1892 – 2006“
The exhibition "Eska is beautiful. Bicycles from Cheb 1892 – 2006" is a joint project of the Cheb Museum, where in late 2022 and early 2023 the first part mapping the production up to 1945 took place, and the gallery of fine arts in Cheb, respectively its branch Retromusea, where the post-war part was presented until bitterly end of bicycle production in Cheb in 2006.
Esky's roots go back to England, where in 1876 the Premier Cycle Company in Coventry began manufacturing high wheel bicycles. New factory was opened in Doos 1891 near Nuremberg and a year later in Cheb, where in December 1892 they assembled the first two bicycles. Director Kastrup left the Cheb Premier in 1911, and a year later another director, Swetlik. They had already agreed in advance that they would build a new factory in Cheb, better and bigger than their current employer. The new factory was still standing in the same year, 1911. It was the most modern of its kind in the Habsburg Monarchy at the time. In 1912, they produced 18,500 bicycles there, and in 1935 they celebrated their half-millionth bicycle Eska.
The post-war history of Eska faithfully copied the life of the entire company, from nationalization, through consolidation, iconic types of folding bikes, the gradual obsolescence of production technology to futile attempts to save it. Outwardly, the successful national enterprise exported bicycles to Western Europe, the USA and Canada, but at the expense of domestic customers, to whom the attractive export types did not reach.
The state invested minimally in Eska and its modernization, the factory languished and technology lagged behind. All she got were numerous reorganizations, formal transfers and proposals for unrealistic plans. At first it was incorporated under ČZ Strakonice, then, on the contrary, it took the Favorit plant under its wing. In a few years, the favorite was set aside to return to Eska again in a few years. The factory in Cheb was somewhat paradoxically managed for years by the Czechoslovak Automobile Works, later by Pragounion. But whichever institution was the superior body, it treated Eska in a paternalistic manner. After 1989, various erudite managers tried to keep the factory running, but they failed to maintain, let alone develop, production. The history of the once famous brand ended in May 2006 with the demolition of the building.
Text from Eska book - Jan Králik 2023
Pedamotive tricycle, France c.1855
Pedamotive tricycle, Lever-driven machine, France c.1855
Now you can see this unique machine in the museum VELORAMA in Netherlands.
