I am looking for an identification
If someone have any information about this machine, help me please.
I would be very happy if we will find more information together.
Thank you very much
Robert Štěrba
The exhibition historic bicycles - Králův Dvůr 2011
September 2011
The meeting in a old castle Králův Dvůr in the Czech Republicis was organized like support for idea about the new bicycle museum and cycling centre here.
The exhibition historic bicycles - Králův Dvůr 2011
The perfect days - Marmande 2011
Pictures are from nice meeting people around antik bicycles, motorcycles, cars and history generally on south of France in picturesque town - Marmande. Exhibition with a lot very rare machines was organized every years and these photographs are from third annual volume L'HISTORIQUE, Marmande à "La Belle Epoque" from 2011.
Organizer: http://www.etoiledargent.org/
Danmark and bicycles
Denmark is very friendly country for bicyclists. We didn't known how much can be friendly for collectors antik bicycles....
Tour de France - the history
When very famous race "Tour de France" celebrated 100 years in 2003 (1903 - 2003) it was possible to buy a lot of books, magazines or papers with some pictures from history of the Tour. We showed some from their photographs with fantastic atmosphere of early races like the celebration nice atmosphere, the heroic winners and an absolutelly perfect machines - race bicycles.
Asymmetric bicycle
Someone once wrote that a frame consists of 11 tubes and this has been true from the first years of the rhombic frame with a fork (this design began to become more widespread after 1890) to the present day. This is quite true, except for a few minor exceptions. “A fork normally has two prongs and there is not much you can change in that”, a normal bicycle rider would say. Well, such a rider was certainly completely disconcerted when the American manufacturer of cult bicycles Cannondale came out with quite extravagant technology in 2000. The “Lefty” one-armed fork soon began to meet with success. And this occurred both in racing and in the commercial field. It didn’t take long for the Lefty front fork to be followed by an asymmetric “Righty” back fork.People began to talk about unprecedented structural design, modern times, cosmic materials facilitating these achievements, ....
Collectors’ caprices "PART 1" – beer steins, glasses, ewers and tankards
Collectors’ caprices 1 – beer steins, glasses, ewers and tankards
Small objects with bicycle motifs inherently decorate all museums and private collections. Beer tankards in various shapes and sizes are a very popular article that is hard to come by. Differences can be seen in the materials and the technologies employed for decoration and in the styles of the pictures and motifs. There are a great many collectors specializing in this field alone around the world.
This is certainly not surprising as most cycling clubs, organizations and societies were founded in restaurants or hotels and the golden liquid was undoubtedly connected with many of these moments.
Professional terminology
If you encounter a special expression in connection with a historical bicycle and are not sure of its meaning, then perhaps our pictures can be of assistance.
The pictures are taken from the book: G. Donald Adams – Collecting & Restoring Antique Bicycles – 1996
The Závist high-wheel bicycle
The honorable member and technical leader of the Czech Club of Velocipedists 1880 has extended the numerous series of replicas of high-wheel bicycles in Bohemia and has constructed his own machine. It is a good thing that he sought inspiration for the design of the head in the machines of the Kohout family in nearby Smíchov.
The oldest Favorit
When, in the 1950’s, the comrades in the bicycle factory in Rokycany wanted to start up production of sports bicycles, they had to decide between two names: “BOREC” (athlete, champion) and “FAVORIT”. We now know which one they chose. This was followed by the production of four or five prototypes, which were to be destroyed after they were tested. One of them has been preserved and is now the property of the First Czech Cycling Museum in Nové Hrady.
