1950's 60's Bicycle Accessories

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

How old do you think am I?

A couple months younger than Mrvette?

[Joey777]

Those guys on American Pickers go ape-shit on old bikes and accessories. They might offer you some substantial cash for that old stuff. Just saying.

[Steve_R]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

How old do you think am I?

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

A couple months younger than Mrvette?

Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark.

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by Bruze

My older sis had a similar bike, they were called an "English" or something. Hand brakes that clamped on the rims, speed mechanism was inside the rear hub, skinny tires. Hers did not have the air pump, although I remember seeing them elsewhere.

Right you are they were defined as a English bike back then. I forgot to mention that it had front/rear clamp on type hand brakes (Sort of like the disk brakes on vechicles today.)

It was a present from my folks for doing well in school.

[04 commemorative]

When we moved we sold our 2 10 speeds with lever shifters from 1975.....had head and tail lights with the generator that leaned against the back tire.....should have kept them but .....
I think they were H&R Sports

[LATB]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

As I dig thru the piles of boxes while attempting to clean out the garage I keep coming up with crap from so many years ago!

I remember several of those and had a couple exact examples.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

As I dig thru the piles of boxes while attempting to clean out the garage I keep coming up with crap from so many years ago!

You must have been a baller as a kid. My accessories consisted of baseball cards and clothespins.

[TripleBlack]

Besides baseball cards we used balloons with just the right amount of air to contact the spokes. They didn't last long but sounded way better than the cards. I also had one of the generators that ran off the tire on my first 10 speed and of course ape hanger handle bars and banana see on an old 20" frame I turn into a Schwinn StingRay clone complete with racing slick rear time.
I didn't hang on to the bikes I had growing up but still have this, bought new in ~1972. Peugeot PX-10. It was pretty much state of the art then and these bikes were rode in the Tour de France back then. This photo is several years old but it's still pretty much in good shape save for a small frame issue, old tires and cables. Paint and decals are very good. That's the original chain wheel (before they called them cassettes) next to the back tire. I needed taller gears to make it up the hills as I got older. Haven't ridden it since the 90s.
"Brakes are good... Tires are fair." If you know, you know.

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by TripleBlack

Besides baseball cards we used balloons with just the right amount of air to contact the spokes. They didn't last long but sounded way better than the cards. I also had one of the generators that ran off the tire on my first 10 speed and of course ape hanger handle bars and banana see on an old 20" frame I turn into a Schwinn StingRay clone complete with racing slick rear time.

I had a racing bike like that, bought it when I was 15, because I had to go to summer school and it was 5 miles away (my parents did not give me any choice about going to summer school. Imagine parents doing that today, lol). This was in 1965 or '66.

It was a 10-speed, I think the brand was "Tour de France," it was orange-ish in color.

I got my permit and license the next year and I forgot all about bicycles, haha.

[Aerovette]

Originally Posted by Bruze

I had a racing bike like that, bought it when I was 15, because I had to go to summer school and it was 5 miles away (my parents did not give me any choice about going to summer school. Imagine parents doing that today, lol). This was in 1965 or '66.

It was a 10-speed, I think the brand was "Tour de France," it was orange-ish in color.

I got my permit and license the next year and I forgot all about bicycles, haha.

In 75 I bought a Motobecane(sp?) 10 speed. Most money I spent until I bought my first car.

[Frankie the Fink]

Yup - everybody wanted an "English racer" - with that scrotum-crushing seat and the pencil thin tires and a gazillion speeds and the handlebars we would "flip up" so you could ride upright instead of with your azz in the air like a liberal Congressional staffer in a senate hearing room.

Then you would take one off road and those skinny tires would sink in the dirt and you'd herniate yourself getting the bike to move. An - to be young again!

[Mick]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

Way back when I had a bike called the Royal Crown it had a 3 speed system, saddle bag hanging on the back of the seat, head light, horn, real skinny tires and a tubular air pump that mounted to the frame. A rather decent bike for the time!

Was it a "Sturmey-Archer" three speed hub?

I had one on my second bike, a Schwinn 3 speed with hand brakes and 20" tires.

[Don Rickles]

I'd love to restore this one.....

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink

Yup - everybody wanted an "English racer" - with that scrotum-crushing seat and the pencil thin tires and a gazillion speeds and the handlebars we would "flip up" so you could ride upright instead of with your azz in the air like a liberal Congressional staffer in a senate hearing room.

Then you would take one off road and those skinny tires would sink in the dirt and you'd herniate yourself getting the bike to move. An - to be young again!

Yes, they were NOT comfortable.

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark.

Don't get it?

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by Mick

Was it a "Sturmey-Archer" three speed hub?

I had one on my second bike, a Schwinn 3 speed with hand brakes and 20" tires.

Local bike shop carried all the above, and really about all we had in my neighborhood......my bike was a single speed 26" Schwinn.....but as years went on, it grew the 3 speed and brakes....easy do by today's reflection, but at the time it was a BITCH to find deals on used parts enough to do the change....

Between Lionel trains and Schwinn bikes, that's watt teached me how to work on crap and figger out mekaniks

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by Mick

Was it a "Sturmey-Archer" three speed hub?

I had one on my second bike, a Schwinn 3 speed with hand brakes and 20" tires.

I had to jog my memory but you are right!

[Joey777]

Originally Posted by TripleBlack

Besides baseball cards we used balloons with just the right amount of air to contact the spokes. They didn't last long but sounded way better than the cards. I also had one of the generators that ran off the tire on my first 10 speed and of course ape hanger handle bars and banana see on an old 20" frame I turn into a Schwinn StingRay clone complete with racing slick rear time.
I didn't hang on to the bikes I had growing up but still have this, bought new in ~1972. Peugeot PX-10. It was pretty much state of the art then and these bikes were rode in the Tour de France back then. This photo is several years old but it's still pretty much in good shape save for a small frame issue, old tires and cables. Paint and decals are very good. That's the original chain wheel (before they called them cassettes) next to the back tire. I needed taller gears to make it up the hills as I got older. Haven't ridden it since the 90s.
"Brakes are good... Tires are fair." If you know, you know.
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“Boy, you gonna drive me to drinken”…………………..

[TripleBlack]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

I'd love to restore this one.....

I'm sure you know those bring some pretty good bucks when restored.

I had a black Schwinn Corvette or maybe American... but Corvette makes a better story... "My first Corvette was...". It looked a lot like the black bike in the front of your pic but without the light and rack. It did have a 2 speed "kickback" hub, chrome wheels and fenders. To shift, you would back peddle slightly with out engaging the coaster brake, then peddle in the new gear. It worked great but I abandoned it when the Stingrays became popular. Built my own from an old 20" that was my first bike.
Later I had a Schwinn Supersport 10 speed but sold it to help finance the Peugeot PX-10 in my earlier post.

[TripleBlack]

Originally Posted by Aerovette

In 75 I bought a Motobecane(sp?) 10 speed. Most money I spent until I bought my first car.

Those were very sweet bikes and I think still sought after by vintage bike enthusiasts.