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07-05-2017, 11:25 PM | #1 | ||
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July 6th, 2017: Headbadges
Headbadges? We don’t got no headbadges. We don’t need no stinkin’ headbadges!
I worked with a legally blind engineer at Westinghouse who rode a bicycle everywhere. He had a three car garage full of them, not parked full, packed full. High wheelers to ultra-lightweights to folders, he had them. His family was tolerant but annoyed and would probably been happier if he collected headbadges. Quote:
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The Stormer has sperm chasing an egg on both ends of the big S. There were more bicycle makers than you could shake a stick at because they were hand made and people couldn’t/wouldn’t travel very far to buy one. As competition from the automobile and new manufacturing techniques change the dynamics of the market, some brands folded, and many merged so the number of brands declined precipitously. link
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07-05-2017, 11:59 PM | #2 |
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Super cool!
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07-06-2017, 06:37 AM | #3 |
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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...
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07-06-2017, 02:35 PM | #4 |
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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
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