Pictures from Cirque du Cyclisme 2013 swap meet

 Jon Williams amazing work at Drillium Revival

 Milk crate full of hubs. Harden bacon slicers, airlites, campagnolo track. . .

 

Truing stand

Miscellaneous items from sale by Dale Brown, Classic Rendezvous founder.

A Willy Appelhans bike. More pictures in a couple days, this is just a teaser of his headbadge- one of my favorite headbadges of all time.

Front end of a Colnago. JRA- just riding along.

 Australian built and over the top paint work on this Speedwell.

 Nice Italian city bike with integrated handlebars/stem/brake levers.

 Swiss Army bike.

Tail end of a Jack Taylor trailer. (looks great Nick!!)

Items seen at Westminster bike swap

Here are some quick pictures from the Westminster, MD bike swap over the weekend.

Forsyth early coaster brake hub. Very nice looking hub.

Chater Lea cranks and early Chater Lea "tommy bar" pedals.

Campagnolo 'con denti" track pedals.

Harden 'Bacon Slicer' large flange track hubs.

Colnago Duall Ergal. rare aluminum Colnago with twin downtubes, built by Alan for Colnago.

Fork crown on Raleigh Grand Prix- Reg Harris model.

A very tired Colnago Sport. corroded and rusty.

some large Flange hubs.

The picture shows some Prior, BSA, Harden, Airlite, New departure, and others.

another bicycle swapmeet

I am not good at taking photographs at bicycle swap meets as I am too busy shopping and talking it up to many of the sellers and fellow bicycle collectors. It is a fault of mine that I like to buy super awesome stuff and then offer it to waiting recipients at home. Sometime fellow collectors joke how I buy all the cool stuff and leave nothing for them but I do not haggle or complain about price, I either accept it or walk away. If the seller wants to deal, I then deal, but I am not out to rob people, I want both parties to feel like we got a deal, and everyone is happy.

Some swap meets are better than other for us. We turned up a few odds and ends- a Lytaloy cottered aluminum crankset, set of early Campagnolo Nuovo Record brake calipers, and early 1980s Jack Taylor road bike, but over all, nothing that I was super stoked about. I mean to say, all the parts were super awesome finds and will find great homes(some already have) but I guess I always hope for more, superer-coolerer stuff. But in the end, it was an great day chatting it up with fellow collecters, fellow Classic Rendezvous-ers, and looking at interesting bits and bobs.

The photos are some of the cool items for sale, some awesome deals, and some rare parts for sure. Some items seen in the pictures are -
Harden "Bacon Slicer" hubs
Airlite track hubs
Campagnolo track hubs
box full of various track cogs
Cinelli steel track bars & stem
an array of Pantographed Cinelli stems,-Colnago, Merckx, Motta, De Rosa, etc.
3Rensho
Cinelli with full Super Record
and that is all i got to photograph!!

Use your imagination on what you didn't see!

swap meet pictures

Well once again it has been a while since posting. no excuses other than all the ones I can make up right. . . .. . now!

Nope, none. well here is a photo or two from the last bicycle swap meet I went. It is a pile of vintage balloon tire bikes that Sam Fitzsimmons was trying to sell. Excellent pile of bikes, Schwinns, Shelby, Huffy, and others.


Here is a pair of Bowden Spacelanders. This are some of the rarest bikes built post war. i think there was around 500 or so built in 1960. This have sold for as much as $8000 many years ago. Funny seeing two, side by side. Just so you, they were made with really inexpensive parts, and were extremely heavy.

Here is an awesome table full of turn of the century hubs. Some take normal hook end spokes while others use straight ball-end spokes. One could see the adaptation of these 100 year old with the modern hubs found on modern ultra lightweight boutique wheels found by Mavic, Campagnolo, and Cane Creek.

The swap meet catered more to balloon tire and older bikes, but i did come across a few lightweight bits, including a rare Colnago crankset with 6 arms, rather than the usual 5 arm spider. Also came back to the shop with a handful of Campagnolo Nuovo record cranks, brakes, small bits, 20+ vintage cycling caps and even a couple spare Clement Seta sewup tires. Oh, almost forgot, I got a Harden rear high flange track hub (not a Bacon slicer) laced into a period sewup rim.

will post future swap meet booty as they are captured. Live vicariously through my life on the road.