BSA Paratrooper bicycle cranks set sold

 Original olive drab finish. in excellent condition. $sold

BSA Paratrooper bicycle

 This really clean and original BSA paratooper bicycle was sold recently by a friend of our bike shop and we worked on it about a decade ago.
(Please pardon the photographs, as I did not take them.)

Wartime headlight

During World War 2, cyclist still had to ride their bikes to get from place to place and still needed lights on their bikes. To avoid being seen from above by enemy planes, they came up with the idea of concealing the light beams. I am not sure how effective it was, or more importantly, how necessary, but here is an example of one such headlight.

They even used the black-out headlights on the car in the movie "Captain America"