1950's 60's Bicycle Accessories

[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!

[Old Ben]

Where are the deck of cards and clothes pins?

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by Old Ben

Where are the deck of cards and clothes pins?

Only on the 4th of July!

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Old Ben

Where are the deck of cards and clothes pins?

Don't forget about the horn.

[04 commemorative]

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

Don't forget about the horn.

See first post for REAL horns, not your generations rainbow colored PC junk...

Your daddy might know what I posted....

[Bruze]

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!

Upper left, second one in: That looks familiar, some type of horn I think. I didn't have one but I think one of the neighbor kids did.

Moving to the right to the little thing surrounded by the speedo cable: A generator for lights run by the tire; my older sis had one, I did too later.

I don't think I had any of the other stuff.

Well, we had the cards and clothespins as Old Ben mentioned, of course, although not playing cards, we used baseball cards. I had Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and other players whose cards would probably be worth a lot today -- but they all were used on the bicycle spokes.

[Steve_R]

Cool collection, but Damn you're old.

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

Cool collection, but Damn you're old.

How old do you think am I?

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

How old do you think am I?

Well I heard that you can remember when the dead sea was only sick!-

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

Well I heard that you can remember when the dead sea was only sick!-

Me n Old Ben saw Beethoven live in concert!

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

How old do you think am I?

Younger than me I think. Everyone here is except for Old Ben and one or two other peeps.

But why do you have that stuff?

I was the youngest of three, and when I left home in '72 my mom threw out everything we didn't want -- which would have included all that ^ stuff.

[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!

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by Bruze

Younger than me I think. Everyone here is except for Old Ben and one or two other peeps.

But why do you have that stuff?

I was the youngest of three, and when I left home in '72 my mom threw out everything we didn't want -- which would have included all that ^ stuff.

Hmmmm, why you ask.....

It's all a disease from my childhood I'd say....So many things in the garage were given to me from clients while working on their homes. Then this old house was filled with 100 years of "stuff". So many antiques and collectibles....Might be a better idea for me to post a thread then keep adding to it as i come up with something of interest?

My wife wants everything gone, and I want the 79 pick up inside the building!

Problem is, I can't just throw anything good away....

[Don Rickles]

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, horn, real skinny tires and a tubular air pump that mounted to the frame. A rather decent bike for the time!

I've yet to show the bicycle collection.....probably 20 or more stored around here...

[Steve_R]

We had decades worth of "stuff" we never looked at or used, and the kids didn't want, when we decided to move to FL in 2019. It wasn't easy at first but we finally got rid of a whole lot of stuff we had to admit we would never use again. Some got sold, some got thrown away, and some got given away. We have no regrets and have not said even one time "Gee, we should have kept that."

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

We had decades worth of "stuff" we never looked at or used, and the kids didn't want, when we decided to move to FL in 2019. It wasn't easy at first but we finally got rid of a whole lot of stuff we had to admit we would never use again. Some got sold, some got thrown away, and some got given away. We have no regrets and have not said even one time "Gee, we should have kept that."

We do hope that our middle son will take over the estate from us. This has me holding onto stuff too, knowing he will have to deal with it!



But yes sir we are unloading, I'm making several piles....some to the dump, some gifts, some for sale...

[Steve_R]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

We do hope that our middle son will take over the estate from us. This has me holding onto stuff too, knowing he will have to deal with it!

We've told our two kids that we're going to try hard to spend every penny of our retirement savings, but that the house here, the cars, and everything else is theirs to split when we die.

[Bruze]

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!

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.

[Don Rickles]

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.

English Racer