July 6th, 2017: Headbadges

[Snakeadelic]

I wondered briefly why I'd never heard of such a thing...and then I remembered the morass of shouting, crying, gravel, and blood stains on my clothes that characterized my (failed miserably) attempts to learn to ride a bicycle. I still have the scar from stripping one kneecap to the bone on a gravel shoulder in one of the worst falls. Guess that's what happens when your balance is never right...

But headbadges look like an AWESOME thing to collect.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Many of them are brass or zinc so when the bike rusts away they remain. But for the headtube to rust away it would likely be out of human sight in the woods or something. Then the chances of someone finding the remains would be pretty slim. Of course old bikes are still found in sheds, barns, and abandoned buildings, but removing the headbadge kills much of the value to a restorer. That makes the really old ones a real challenge to collect.

On the up side, you don't have to rent storage space for a collection... or if you do you have more important things to address than a hobby