Showing posts with label vintage cycling pictures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vintage cycling pictures. Show all posts
"In the early twentieth century, nothing conveyed the modern spirit of mobility, freedom, and independence better than the bicycle. When a pretty athletic girl was included, she added sexual desirability to the mix -- a sleek human machine joined to the manufactured machine. To many observers, this novel combination was exciting and perhaps a little frightening."
The photo & quote is actually from a quite fascinating article "Venus with Biceps: A Pictorial History of Muscular Women" at Brainpickings.
(Thanks Jesse.)
Back In The Days...
... when road cycling was still truly Epic. Or just bit more like cyclocross today, maybe?
"Photos of the Vuelta a Colombia in the early 1960s, by Horacio Gil Ochoa" via Cycling Inquisition.
Found: List of Things to Pack for a Cycling Trip
This so awesome I had to steal it from Chainthug.
It's a list of things to pack for a cycling trip longer than 100 kilometres but less than 300 kilometres. And he found it between an old cycling book "Cykling och Cykelsport" from 1934!
I'm not gonna translate the full list but the point is that while it's old it's also almost completely modern, just all the basic stuff you would pack with you today. Things like basic tools, spare tubes, some clothing, a tooth brush, towel, a clock (which is a MUST according to the list), a drink flask, a map etc.
And according to the list for a trip longer than 300km you may also want to bring along some extras like "a photography machine" and "a spare pedal and axle".
Cross Cyclo-pédestre, February 18th 1930, Paris
THIS photo!
"Remember, racers still didnt trust the derailleur even into the 1940s, and that held for cyclocross as well - bikes were largely single-speed, often with a fixed wheel. Brakes were still largely sidepulls at this time as well."
From here, and there are many more awesome pics there too.
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