1904 St. Louis World's Fair Wooden Bicycle

My friend - historian and collector Colin Kirsch from England (you probably know his THE ONLINE BICYCLE MUSEUM) found a link to the auction hall offering an interesting wooden bike, but with it a number of questions for cycling collectors.

He himself writes: "AUCTION WATCH: Hand-built wooden bicycle which was raffled at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Historic? Or vintage crap? It's coming up for auction on Sun, Jan 31, 2021 in the USA. Auctioneer's description: "outstanding original 1904 St. Louis World's Fair wooden bicycle." It's early 1900s and has a subsequent owner's paperwork with it that connects it with the 1904 World Fair, but it's a home-made decorative piece that does not look functional. The 1940 photo says it won second prize. But what was the competion for? I don't like it. What do you think? "

More info here - https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/95493730_1904-st-louis-world-s-fair-wooden-bicycle?fbclid=IwAR1Xh-f-KpJKfnYxHjceGq_XNZdDmyScFws9Hli_XPiP6hrLbfSCHmFd5s4

35.OLDTIMER - UND TEILEMARKT - St. Polten, Austria

A small tasting from our friends from Austria.

St. Polten 2020

Summer Jumble sale in 2020

The owner of the German Cycling Museum, Ivan Sojc, has been organizing a meeting and a juble sale on the first holiday weekend on the premises of his museum traditionally, for several years now. This year with the participation of collectors from France, Belgium, the Netherlands and other countries.

Jumble sale Bad Brückenau 2020

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Day of Bicycles – Boskovštejn 2020 June 5.-7.

Boskovštejn 2020, June 5.-7th, Czech republic

We adding a new date for bicycle weekend, jumble sale and exposition for strong interest of all!!!

What: Meeting, exhibition, swap market, collectors rendez- vous

Contact: http://www.muzeumkol.eu/

Photographs from the summer meeting 2019

Antique Bicycles Day 2019 - Jumble sale

It's not mainstream - books for true experts!

Didier Mahistre and Bernard Gougaud: Aux sources de la bicyclette

"The origins of the bicycle are unknown or even opaque, so that specialists are getting lost in it themselves. This simple and rudimentary vehicle is however the sum of human intelligence. After four years of research, analysis of authentic, original and relevant documents, the authors lead us into a mad investigation using tenuous clues to help us discover the path that leads to the birth of the bicycle.

Didier Mahistre consulted, sorted, studied and cross-checked thousands of articles, engravings, lithographs. He worked more particularly on German, French, English, American, Swiss ... invention patents from 1790 to 1892.

The patent, beyond the simple administrative writing, is the instantaneous and reflected digest of the ingenuity of its inventor who decides to transcribe at a very precise moment his imagination, his vision and his technical innovations thus anticipating societal upheavals. It is there, in the description of the thesis and in the drawings which accompany it, that it layers its subtlety.

Bernard Gougaud, meanwhile, a connoisseur of the bicycle in all its forms, has sorted and validated the technical hypotheses and digested the sum of extraordinary information discovered by Didier Mahistre.

The two authors give us here the sources, the archives and the studies in the context of the different eras, to guide us and to base, in the light of these, our own analysis.

Supporting evidence, the bicycle, our modern bicycle was born in France 150 years ago ... Discover the name of its inventor, which you will now hear about. Also read, the real fakes of the famous Michaux case. ”

Orders: https://www.terredesbourbons.com/produit/aux-sources-de-la-bicyclette/

Aux sources de la bicyclette

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Very rare chainless bicycle

Very interesting chainless bicycle for adult rider - probably home made in Austria-Hungary. This bicycle/velocipede was showed first time for experts on International Cycling History Conference in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) 1999. A nice wooden example from a privat collecion.

Chainless bicycle

NEW BOOKS - recommendation for you

Claude Reynaud "Le Dictionnaire de l'Histoire du Cycle"

Claude has written a book titled Aux origins de l'histoire du cycle, sources et preuves, and he is offering free internet access to this book to all Friends of the ICHC. 480 pages, 500 photos. Claude is owner a very nice museum - Musée Moto Vélo in Domazan - south of France

Musée Moto Vélo, Domazan

The internet address is:

"https://www.chateau-de-bosc.com/le-dictionnaire-de-l-histoire-du-cycle".

Jednotlivé části knihy a prolinky:

Introduction

A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J-K - L - M - P - Q - R - S - T-U - V - W-X

Annexe - Michaux: Le Mythe
Erratum

Le Dictionnaire de l'Histoire du Cycle

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Veterama Mannheim 11.- 13.10.2019

Veterama Mannheim 2019 October 11 - 13th

Veterama jumble sale in Mannheim is the biggest event in Europe where more than 50.000 visitors saw more than 4.500 sellers from many countries of all the World. Antique cars and modern classics, motorcycles, clubs, interest groups, spare parts, bicycles, models, literature, automobilia, clothing, restoration shops, workshop fitters, coachbuilders, auction houses, tool traders, tyre traders, accessories ...

Address: Maimarktgelände Mannheim

Xaver-Fuhr-Straße 101, 68163 Mannheim

Contakt: http://www.veterama.de/de/home