Museum bikes from 1. Classic Cycle. 19. Super strong and unique Dyno BMX bike Dyno Bazooka BMX Bicycle 10. Who Were AustroDaimler When I bought my Vent Noir II in 1981 the AustroDaimler Puch company was a wholly owned subsidiary of the famous SteyrDaimlerPuch consortium. FMF Team Replica. FMF Team Replica. If you know the name FMF, you know they have been making motorcycle stuff for a long time. This bike is a FMF Team Replica, a collaboration project between FMF and pioneering BMX company Race Inc. Like a lot of great BMX innovations, this bike came from the brain of Race Inc. SE Racings Scot Breithaup. In 1. 97. 6 Race Inc. Software Concrete Mix Design. RA 7 model which was the first mass produced aluminum BMX bike. Race Inc. RA 7 frames ended up being sold as FMF Team replicas, Peugeot CXP 5. Cycle Pro Spoilers and Foilers. FMF dabbled in the BMX world for only a single year, 1. Head tube gusset. Bottom bracket gusset. Schwinn%20Pixie/WP_001410.jpg' alt='Schwinn Taiwan Serial Number' title='Schwinn Taiwan Serial Number' />Number 1. The frame gussets were the magic elements to these bikes. Using lightweight aluminum to make a racing machine that was going to be jumped, crashed and abused was risky at the time as evidenced by the hundreds of broken steel frames that littered the nations BMX tracks. The bottom bracket, head tube and seat stay gussets added all the strength needed for these bikes to survive their hard life. Preston Petty grips. Takagi one piece cranks. Kashimax saddle and fluted post. This FMF has all the cool parts available in 1. What is a hip number Your HIP number is the distance from your hip socket joint through your knee to your heel. Research conducted on behalf of Octane Fitness has. Nishiki is a brand of bicycles designed, specified, marketed and distributed by West Coast Cycle in the United States, initially manufactured by Kawamura Cycle Co. Here is an email I got from an actual employee of GT If the bike frame was manufactured at the Santa Ana CA facility, the first three or four digits of the serial. WELCOME TO THE BICYCLE MUSEUM. Bicycles are wonderfully simple, eloquent and efficient machines. A few of the bikes were purchased by me, or for me, new, including. Theres an aluminum FMF handlebar attached to a double gooseneck stem. Preston Petty Works GP grips. A Redline fork. Theres a fluted aluminum seat post, a Kashimax saddle, Takagi one piece cranks and Union pedals. The pads have snaps, not Velcro, to attach them. The Bendix coaster brake hub controls the speed on this bike, and everything rolls on Araya 7. B rims. 1. 97. 2 Jack Taylor Clubman. Jack Taylor Clubman. We need somebody out there to buy this old Jack Taylor, put it on the roof of their vintage Mini Cooper and drive to the start of the LEroica Britannia retro bike tour this June. Schwinn Taiwan Serial Number' title='Schwinn Taiwan Serial Number' />Wait, no. Maybe thats a bad idea. Nostalgia so exacting in detail may actually rip a hole in the fabric of time spaceThis is a Jack Taylor Clubman, which was really the most well built and versatile road bike you could have ridden in the early 7. Long before the bike world made distinctions between Endurance and Racing frame geometry, there were bikes like these that handled like a good racing rig but were comfortable enough to ride on rough roads for hours on end. Altenburger Synchron brakes. Jack Taylor Front End. Very ModThe equipment choices on display here are pretty straight forward for a high end road bike of the era. The racing standard, Campagnolo Nuovo Record derailleurs and shifters are here. Instead of a matching Campag crankset Campag is how the British folks shorten Campagnolo, by the way we have a Specialties TA 3 arm crank. The most likely reason for this choice at the time would have been a greater range of chainring sizes to choose from. The handlebars and stem are made by Cinelli, Thats a Wrights saddle from Birmingham and a Regina 5 speed freewheel on the back wheel. Custom Clubman tubing. Specialties TA crank. A Campag Mech. Now the brakes, whether they stop well or not were a great choice. Altenburger Synchron calipers. How modern and premium sounding is that name Im pretty sure that I would have purchased an Altenburger Synchron turntable for my stereo system if they made such a thing. Made in Stockton on Tees. Wrights Saddle. Bluemel Club Special. While were on the topic of fab choices and interesting names, the Bluemels Club Special fenders made in England are spectacular. The red color really makes the bike stand out, and the fact that the fenders are 4. Raleigh Model 2. 4 Cold Warrior. Richard Alexanders 1. Raleigh. Every bike in our museum has a story, some of the stories have more interesting players and settings than othersThis is a Raleigh model 2. Raleigh in 1. 96. At first glance it is a pretty unassuming old city bike. The paint is in great condition, the British racing green is still shiny and the gold box striping looks great. This was a pretty deluxe version, and it has a lot of great bells and whistles except that there isnt a bell or a whistle on it, go figure. The bike features a Sturmey Archer four speed rear hub shifter and a fully enclosed chain guard. It came with color matched fenders, saddle bag, saddle and pump. Dual head lamps. Sturmey Archer Dynamo hub. Dyno Luxe battery holder. There are two generator hubs on this bike, both front and rear. The generators power the dual head lamps and the two tail lights. The green can that is attached to the seat tube houses four D cell batteries which would have kept the lights running when the bike came to a stop. Everything still works, but its pretty amazing to see how much brighter modern lights are today. Theres a steering lock on the fork, which is a fine secondary theft deterrent. By locking the steering straight ahead, you make the bike impossible to ride. In order to steal this Raleigh you would have to pick up the bike and run with it or throw it in a car and it weighs 5. Raleigh front end. Matching saddle bag. So this bike was owned by a gentleman named Richard Alexander. Richard was a pretty avid rider, and he owned a couple of cool bikes The Exxon Graftek in our collection was also his. Richard wasnt a famous racer, and he didnt build this bike, but his ownership of the Raleigh adds quite a bit to the narrative. Fork lock theft deterent. Richard did interesting things with his bikes. We have a mid 8. Richard undertook on his racing bike to get to his 3. The interesting thing Richard did with this RaleighRichard bought the bike to ride around the neighborhood near his office Isnt that great All right, that doesnt sound like much. How about now Richards office was at the U. S. embassy in Moscow, and the year was 1. Export Invoice. 19. Lyndon Johnson is in the White House, Leonid Brezhnev is running the Soviet Union, and the superpowers are fighting a Cold War. Richard works in the office of the naval Attach and rides his bike around Moscow during his down time. Most likely with a KGB tail. Having all of your bike rides monitored by the secret police might have actually been a plus. We can imagine that theft wasnt a big concern. Left unattended, Richards Raleigh may have been inspected once or twice to see if secret messages were being transported inside the tubes. The bike was in pretty good shape when we got it, so if the KGB took it apart at any time, they did a stealthy job and got all of the pieces back in the right place. By the way, if you click on our photo of the original invoice itll expand and youll be able to make out some neat details. Notable things include Raleighs Telex number Telex, the fact that the air freight from London to the Moscow airport was almost twice the cost of the bike, and that the E on the typewriter was wearing out. Old time problems Cool. Jack Taylor Touring Tandem. Jack Taylor Tandem. This fabulous tandem once belonged to a friend of Jeffs named Roy. Roy is now in his middle 8. In 1. 97. 0 Roy decided to have a tandem cycle built by the best bicycle craftsmen of the day, the Taylors in England. Roy and his wife went for the completely Taylored experience with their bike, traveling to Jack Taylor bicycles in Durham County to be fitted for their bike, and they made a cycling vacation of their stay. That was the start of a good 3. The tandem was retired andor began a new adventure with us in the early 9. Stoker stem. Matching rack. Our friends Jeff and Bob Freeman of Elliot Bay Bicycles usually do a vintage bike display at the Seattle Bicycle Expo.