Willy Appelhans woman's bicycle

Willy Appelhans, an accomplished professional racer from Germany that came to the United States to race 6 day races and later built some of the best bicycles of that era.

 Left chain stay has a reinforced sleeve, I assume for a coaster brake arm.

Bobby Walthour Sr. chewing gum card

Bobby Walthour Sr. chewing gum card. I have had this for years, and just recently there was a book written about him- Life in the Slipstream.
here are 2 more bios about him-
Wikipedia
and
Thrills and Spills article on Oldbike.com

Multitasking Six Day Racer

Photo by Derek Berwin.

September 25, 1936, Piet van Kempen track-standing at the track in Wembley, UK the morning of a six day cycling event. 
He was known as the "King of the Six Day" and "The Flying Dutchman", from the Netherlands.

Yellow Unknown early track racer

Pictures of an unidentified track racer.
BSA headset and chainset and other fittings.
Very interesting buildup of initials on the headtube(believed to be of the rider, not the builder)
very nice lugwork and cool seatcluster, with pins visible in the seattubes, that are left open.

Six Day Race Programs

Six day race memorabilia is a small niche section of the vintage lightweight bicycle collectors world. As I have stated in previous blog posting, it is an often ignored or missing much critical study, minus a few exceptions. This race programs exemplify the popularity of the racing in it's heyday- packing Madison Square Garden for spectators to watch Jimmy Walthour Jr., Alfred Goullet, and Alfred LeTourneur.

Here are a couple sources online about 6 day racing, the programs are from our private collection. The have such vivid graphics and look awesome.

-Wikipedia entry on six day racing
-The Jazz Age website(about 6 day racing movie and book)
-6day racing in Canada