Were bikes always so aesthetically beautiful?

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zzapper
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Hi
It almost worries me that I get so much pleasure from looking at the
bikes in our local Marin and other makes showroom. It almost seems a
shame to actually use them on the road. Are they putting much more
effort into how bikes look than say 20 years ago?

Probably, because it's a large competitive market but everyone's
basically using pretty much the same components at any particular price
level.

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Quoted message said:

Hi
It almost worries me that I get so much pleasure from looking at the
bikes in our local Marin and other makes showroom. It almost seems a
shame to actually use them on the road. Are they putting much more
effort into how bikes look than say 20 years ago?

Chacun a son goute ;-)

I prefer Bates, Curly Hetchings and Baines from fifties alonmg with Jack
Taylor and Holdsworth from the sixties and seventies.

vernon said:

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news:[email hidden]...> Hi

Quoted message said:

It almost worries me that I get so much pleasure from looking at the
bikes in our local Marin and other makes showroom. It almost seems a
shame to actually use them on the road. Are they putting much more
effort into how bikes look than say 20 years ago?

Chacun a son goute ;-)

I prefer Bates, Curly Hetchings and Baines from fifties alonmg with Jack
Taylor and Holdsworth from the sixties and seventies.

Are there bike museums or any special interest groups collecting
classic bikes?

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zzapper said:

Are there bike museums or any special interest groups collecting
classic bikes?

Confusingly, there are two.

National Cycle Collection

http://www.cyclemuseum.org.uk/

....and...

British Cycling Museum

http://www.chycor.co.uk/cycling-museum/

BugBear

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zzapper said:

Are there bike museums or any special interest groups collecting
classic bikes?

Confusingly, there are two.

National Cycle Collection

http://www.cyclemuseum.org.uk/

...and...

British Cycling Museum

http://www.chycor.co.uk/cycling-museum/

s/2/3 - Mark Hall Cycle Museum, Harlow. Well, sort of; the Harlow Museum
and the Mark Hall Cycle Museum combined in 2001 to form a new Museum of
Harlow.

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zzapper said:

vernon said:

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news:[email hidden]...> Hi

Quoted message said:

It almost worries me that I get so much pleasure from looking at the
bikes in our local Marin and other makes showroom. It almost seems a
shame to actually use them on the road. Are they putting much more
effort into how bikes look than say 20 years ago?

Quoted message said:

Chacun a son goute ;-)

Quoted message said:

I prefer Bates, Curly Hetchings and Baines from fifties alonmg with Jack
Taylor and Holdsworth from the sixties and seventies.

Are there bike museums or any special interest groups collecting
classic bikes?

Quite a few motoring museums have a bike section too as most motor
companies started life making bicycles. For example, you'll see many
examples of Jaguar and Rover bicycles at the Coventry Motor Museum.

Duncan

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vernon said:

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news:[email hidden]...> Hi

Quoted message said:

It almost worries me that I get so much pleasure from looking at the
bikes in our local Marin and other makes showroom. It almost seems a
shame to actually use them on the road. Are they putting much more
effort into how bikes look than say 20 years ago?

Chacun a son goute ;-)

I prefer Bates, Curly Hetchings and Baines from fifties alonmg with Jack
Taylor and Holdsworth from the sixties and seventies.

Are there bike museums or any special interest groups collecting
classic bikes?

There's a great cycle museum at Camelford in the old station building.

vernon said:

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Quoted message said:

Hi
It almost worries me that I get so much pleasure from looking at the
bikes in our local Marin and other makes showroom. It almost seems a
shame to actually use them on the road. Are they putting much more
effort into how bikes look than say 20 years ago?

Chacun a son goute ;-)

I prefer Bates, Curly Hetchings and Baines from fifties alonmg with Jack
Taylor and Holdsworth from the sixties and seventies.

I think that you must have forgotten to mention Mercian.

By the way
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
has great pictures of bikes from that period.
Roger Thorpe

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zzapper said:

Are there bike museums or any special interest groups collecting
classic bikes?

Confusingly, there are two.

National Cycle Collection

http://www.cyclemuseum.org.uk/

...and...

British Cycling Museum

http://www.chycor.co.uk/cycling-museum/

s/2/3

Perl, vi, or just long standing Unix hacker?

BugBear

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Quite a few motoring museums have a bike section too as most motor
companies started life making bicycles. For example, you'll see many
examples of Jaguar and Rover bicycles at the Coventry Motor Museum.

Duncan

Technically that's "The Museum of British Road Transportation", and
bicycles have their own display area. It's not bad either, although
the Thrust SSC display probably trumps it.

Daren

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zzapper wrote:
> Are there bike museums or any special interest groups collecting
> classic bikes?
Confusingly, there are two.

National Cycle Collection

http://www.cyclemuseum.org.uk/

...and...

British Cycling Museum

http://www.chycor.co.uk/cycling-museum/

s/2/3

Perl, vi, or just long standing Unix hacker?

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zzapper wrote:
> Are there bike museums or any special interest groups collecting
> classic bikes?
Confusingly, there are two.

National Cycle Collection

http://www.cyclemuseum.org.uk/

...and...

British Cycling Museum

http://www.chycor.co.uk/cycling-museum/

s/2/3

Perl, vi, or just long standing Unix hacker?

They'd want another / at the end.

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It almost worries me that I get so much pleasure from looking at the
bikes in our local Marin and other makes showroom. It almost seems a
shame to actually use them on the road. Are they putting much more
effort into how bikes look than say 20 years ago?

Frankly, although I prefer /riding/ modern bikes, I think the bikes of
twenty years ago /looked/ better - a lot better. The pencil thin seat
stays, the gorgeous lugwork, the little detail brazeons; and the paint,
with deep gloss and careful, hand-painted lining.

I also have a personal fetish for drillium.

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th lies o a past that we know wis never real.

Simon Brooke said:

I also have a personal fetish for drillium.

The fetish thread is down there ....

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Simon Brooke said:

in message <[email hidden]>, zzapper

(') said:

It almost worries me that I get so much pleasure from looking at the
bikes in our local Marin and other makes showroom. It almost seems a
shame to actually use them on the road. Are they putting much more
effort into how bikes look than say 20 years ago?

Frankly, although I prefer /riding/ modern bikes, I think the bikes of
twenty years ago /looked/ better - a lot better. The pencil thin seat
stays, the gorgeous lugwork, the little detail brazeons; and the paint,
with deep gloss and careful, hand-painted lining.

I also have a personal fetish for drillium.

Take care.

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JNugent said:

Take care.

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OK so he's a pathetic [censored], but wtf was he prosecuted and put on the
register?

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Take care.

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OK so he's a pathetic [censored], but wtf was he prosecuted and put on the
register?

My thoughts *exactly*.