Big Brother is watching your bike

Phil — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:35:43 +0000

Michael over at Cyclelicious just posted a contest for the best bike-related Google Maps StreetView shot. My entry is 388 Market Street in San Francisco, of this messenger or messenger-styled person, trackstanding on a fixed gear with tri-spoke aero front wheel, rear wheel full of spoke cards, shoulder bag, and narrow handlebars:

Browsing down the street, I also found this disturbing shot of a someone attempting to cross the street mid-block with a walker:

70s Raleigh Track Bikes

Phil — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:07:04 +0000

Ira Ryan posted a preview of a track bike he just built painted with a 70’s Raleigh-inspired paint job (hint: click on the flickr link for more photos of it). I thought it would be interesting to see the various Raleigh Track bike paint schemes, so here they are. Click on the year to go the the Raleigh catalog for that year, or the image to go to the specific catalog page.

1972.

1973 and 1974. In ‘74, the classic red and yellow scheme was introduced in the Team Professional, but the Track was still in the old scheme. (74 tech specs):

1975 and 1976. (75 tech specs)

Roy Schuiten, 1974 World Professional Pursuit Champion, in the 1975 catalog:

And a 1979 on Flickr:

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Big Brother is watching your bike

70s Raleigh Track Bikes