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VeloBase.com Top Links (13 links)
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| RetroBike.net | Enthusiast Website | Great resource, forum, and shop for all things retro and vintage cycling. Wide selection of catalogs, ads, reviews and more in their archives | |
| Bicycle Classics | Shop Website | Online shop with huge offer of vintage components | |
| Mario's Bike Shop - defietsenmaker.nl | Shop Website | 30 years experience in race and normal bicycles and for the last few
years also specialised in vintage parts. | |
| Southwest Frameworks | Shop Website | David Cheakas of Southwest Frameworks custom builds frames, will do repairs and painting work. Located in Dallas, TX. | |
| VeloCals | Shop Website | Reproduction bicycle decals by JR Anderson, aka JRRestore on BikeForums.net | |
| Vintage Bike Cave | Shop Website | We offer a range of vintage bicycle services, covering everything from custom builds and rare parts, to rentals and maintenance. Whatever your requirements, we should be able to help!
We are based in the UK but service customers all over the world. | |
| Vintage NOS Bicycle Parts | Shop Website | Web shop for eBay seller pb*bikes. | |
| BikeForums.net Classic & Vintage | BikeForums.net | The Classic & Vintage section at BikeForums.net | |
| Classic Rendezvous | Classic Rendevous | Fantastic web resource for all things vintage up till 1984. | |
| Cino Rider | Events | Official Website of the Cino Heroica, an epic ride held yearly in Montana. | |
| Horton Collection | Museam Collection | The ultimate collection of posters and other cycling memorabilia. Some of this vast collection is on display in San Francisco. | |
| U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame | Museam Collection | U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame - now located in Davis, CA. | |
| SheldonBrown.com | Sheldon Brown | The Website about ALL things Cycling. | |
Vintage Cycling Websites (58 links)
| Name | Type | Details |
| 'The Headbadge' - a classic & vintage bicycle resource | Enthusiast Website | The Headbadge specializes in vintage lightweight roadbikes and English 3-speeds. We host the most extensive Raleigh serial database available on the internet. | |
| 43bikes Collection by "Mookie" | Enthusiast Website | Well and humorously presented private collection of bicycles and with a splendid view on weight weenies. | |
| Allin Cycles Ltd - Croydon (ClassicLightweights) | Enthusiast Website | A brief history of the brand via ClassicLightweights.co.uk |  |
| Bicycle Head Badge Flickr Group | Image Host | Over 1000 head badges and growing | |
| Bicycle Museum of America | Museam Collection | Claims to be the largest bicycle museum in the world. | |
| Bike Specialty | Shop Website | A collection of vintage bicycles to rent. Check out the photogallery. | |
| BikeForums.net Classic & Vintage | BikeForums.net | The Classic & Vintage section at BikeForums.net | |
| BMX old school | Enthusiast Website | An online database project for the BMX aficionados. | |
| Bulgier.net Bikes | Enthusiast Website | Bike Pictures, Poster, Catalog Scans, etc | |
| Chainwheel silhouettes on blackbirdsf.org | Enthusiast Website | Associated with a tattoo project by one of the guys over on blackbirdsf, this is also a fantastic catalog of vintage chainwheel styles and designs. | |
| CiCLi Monasteria | Shop Website | showcase website featuring vintage roadbikes as well as track and singlespeedbikes. theres also a growing section about vintage jerseys. german, but english content. | |
| Cino Rider | Events | Official Website of the Cino Heroica, an epic ride held yearly in Montana. | |
| Classic Lightweights UK | Enthusiast Website | Devoted to classic UK and Italian Lightweights | |
| Classic Rendezvous | Classic Rendevous | Fantastic web resource for all things vintage up till 1984. | |
| Classic Vintage Bikes | Blog | Classic Vintage Bikes is a blog intended to share my passion and interest for the Italian classic bikes. | |
| Collection David Cooper | Enthusiast Website | Very nicely presented fine private collection of vintage mostly lightweight bicycles. | |
| Collection Embacher | Museam Collection | A well pictured presentation of the austrian Embacher collection. Only little information about most of the bikes. | |
| Collection Kjell Ahlqvist | Museam Collection | Swedish private collection of mostly french, italian, japanese and swedish bikes. Some articles in english, otherwise swedish only. | |
| Component Dating at Vintage Trek | Enthusiast Website | A good list of information about how to date components and thus the bike | |
| Component Overview by Tilmun | Museam Collection | Listing of components by categories with declarations of sizes, weights and year. | |
| CycleBase | Enthusiast Website | Great database of bicycle racing teams both past and present. | |
| Cycling Connoisseur | Shop Website | NEW - Your source for rare, clean, vintage cycling parts and accessories. You already know what you want. We probably have it. Adding new items regularly. | |
| Cycling Hall of Fame | Museam Collection | Cycling Hall of Fame.com is dedicated to preserving the history of cycling's greatest races and the riders who rode them. | |
| Dave's Vintage Bicycles | Enthusiast Website | Specializing in pre-1940 Ballooners and more. | |
| Disraeli Gears | Enthusiast Website | A great and comprehensive resource of derailleurs, nicely presented and with many very rare items | |
| Dutch vintage bicycles | Enthusiast Website | Besides the Velorama museum the address for dutch brands. The core is the database of manufacturers and bicycle registry. Partly in english language. | |
| Fanatico de lo clasico | N/A | Classic Bikes in Argentina | |
| Grubb1937's Flickr Photo Stream | Image Host | Lots of fantastic photos of vintage cycling topics such as head badges, catalogs, bikes, parts, and more. Well worth a look. | |
| Historische Fahrraeder | N/A | Site of the German vintage bicycle association. German language only. | |
| Horton Collection | Museam Collection | The ultimate collection of posters and other cycling memorabilia. Some of this vast collection is on display in San Francisco. | |
| International cycling history confernce | Events | Site of the annual professional bicycling history event. | |
| Italian classic bikes | N/A | Private collection of vintage italian racing bikes. German language. | |
| IVCA | N/A | The International Veteran Cycle Association (IVCA) is an association of organizations and individuals interested in vintage bicycles: riding, collecting, restoration, history and their role in society. | |
| Mombat MTB history | Museam Collection | Very informative and well structured site about the Mountain Bike's history. Many photographs of bikes and components. | |
| National Cycle Collection (UK) | Museam Collection | Physical and online museam located in Mid Wales, UK. Includes a huge selection of catalogs available for download (at a cost). | |
| Old School Bicycles | N/A | Site with some very good photographs of mostly british and french lightweight bicycles. | |
| Oldroads | N/A | A great resource for vintage cycling information of all sorts | |
| Pedaling History Bicycle Museum | Museam Collection | Pedaling History features one of the world's largest collections of antique and classic American bicycles, including thousands of items of cycling-related memorabilia. | |
| Radklassiker.org | N/A | german website dedicated to the vintage lightweight, contains all entrants and winners of the "Classic bike of the month" contest held in http://forum.tour-magazin.de/forumdisplay.php?f=34 | |
| Ray Dobbins Photo Gallery | N/A | A great resource by collector Ray Dobbins -- restoration tips and fantastic photos of vintage Italian racing bicycles in his collection. | |
| RetroBike.net | Enthusiast Website | Great resource, forum, and shop for all things retro and vintage cycling. Wide selection of catalogs, ads, reviews and more in their archives | |
| Ros Classic Steel Road Bikes | Blog | Dutch Language Blog with lots of Dutch Cycling content. | |
| SheldonBrown.com | Sheldon Brown | The Website about ALL things Cycling. | |
| Speedbicycles | Museam Collection | An amazing virtual museum started by Stefan Schaefter and continued by Speedbicycles Gmbh (Basel, Switzerland)...drool-worthy photographs of hundreds of vintage racing bicycles from dozens of manufacturers. | |
| Speedplay Pedal Museum | Museam Collection | A great timeline of pedal development through the years. | |
| The Bicycle Info Project | N/A | EquusBicycle Project: Lots of old Catalog Scans on this site. Great Content. | |
| The Custom Bicycle | N/A | "Buying, setting up and riding the quality bicycle", 1979, 276 sites about vintage racing frames, frame builders, bicycle setup. Nice book! | |
| The Paterek Manual For Bicycle Framebuilders | N/A | Very detailed framebuilder's manual, tube set comparison tables, etc. 434 interesting sites. | |
| The Racing Bicycle | N/A | Chronicaling the development of racing bicycles since the early 1900s | |
| Tonton Vélo | N/A | A good initial site to find information about vintage french bicycle brands. French and english language. | |
| VAR Bicycle Tool Catalogue | Sheldon Brown | Historical VAR Tool Catalogue on SheldonBrown.com | |
| Velo-Retro | Enthusiast Website | Lots of information and interested merchandise for sale and browsing. | |
| Velorama museum | Museam Collection | Site of Jan Moed's dutch museum which is due to its gorgeous collection of bicycles and books, catalogues etc. (they are keeping Gazelle's archive!) the first address not only for dutch bicycles. | |
| VeloStuf | N/A | Vintage Racing Bikes and Parts | |
| Velosvintage | Blog | French blog about vintage racing bicycles. | |
| VeloVault | Blog | A Collection of Cycling Nostalgia | |
| Veteran Cycle Club | N/A | The oldest vintage bicycle association, exemplary not only for their marque enthusiasts and their huge bibliography. Partly for members only. | |
| Wooljersey Photo Gallery | Image Host | Massive photo gallery of vintage bicycles, parts, and more. | |
Brand Specific Websites (62 links)
| Name | Type | Details |
| 80's SunTour Catalogs | Shop Website | Hosted by YellowJersey.org | |
| Alex Singer | Company Website | Official site of the legendary bicycle builder from france with a look on his history and bicycle models. French language only. | |
| Bendix bicycle hub service | N/A | Tom Findley's page on Bendix hubs. | |
| Bianchi | N/A | Even if in japanese there are lots of pictures of bicycles, catalogues and other items. | |
| Bob Jackson | Manufacture Website | Brief history of the still existing (and flame-keeping) british builder. | |
| Brooks Archives | Manufacture Website | Tons of information about Brooks Saddles | |
| Caminade on Blackbirdsf.org | Enthusiast Website | An excellent write up of the history and background of the brand. Well worth the read. | |
| Caminade on Classic Rendezvous | Classic Rendevous | Caminade information on CR. | |
| Campagnolo collection | Enthusiast Website | Lots of good pictures with japanese description. | |
| Campagnolo collection II | Enthusiast Website | Yes, it's another all-japanese collection, but have a look at these pics! | |
| Campagnolo Timeline | N/A | A detailed timeline chronicling the history of the company as well as dates of various component groups. | |
| Campy Only! | N/A | News, information, and more on Campagnolo new and old | |
| Campybike | N/A | An overwiew of most of the Campagnolo catalogues, to get inside them an DVD is offered. | |
| Centurion Bicycles by Ashley Wright | N/A | Centurion Specific article on SheldonBrown.com | |
| Cinelli bars and stems | N/A | A good presentation of Cinelli bars and stems with overview schedule and lots of photographs. | |
| Cinelli Frame Registry | N/A | Listing of Cinelli serial numbers, dates, and additional information | |
| Cinelli only | Enthusiast Website | Cinelli-dedicated Blog by Angelo Senza | |
| Classic Fuji Bicycles | N/A | History, Catalogs, Serial Number ID and more | |
| Classic Miyata Catalogs | N/A | Miyata Catalog Scans | |
| Colner | N/A | Bicycles From Argentina | |
| CR's Peugoet PX10 History | N/A | Peugeot's classic lugged and brazed performance bicycles, specifically the PX10 | |
| Cycles Peugeot | N/A | Good timeline of the brand as well as other information | |
| Cycles Retro Peugeot | Enthusiast Website | Peugeot Catalogs from 1929 - 1989 | |
| Diamant racing bicycles | Enthusiast Website | A lot of information, pictures, catalogues and parts (i.e. rare derailleurs) about Diamant racing bicycles from the GDR-era. German language only. | |
| Duret Géliano | N/A | Some information about the history of the french make Duret and their second brand Géliano | |
| Dursley-Pedersen | N/A | A very well researched and informative site about Dursley-Pedersen bicycles. | |
| Ebykr article on Alex Singer | N/A | Informative write up on the history of Alex Singer | |
| GitaneUSA.com | N/A | Gitane History, Catalogs, etc. | |
| Harry Quinn on Classic Rendezvous | Classic Rendevous | | |
| Hetchins | Enthusiast Website | Fine crafted frames, ser. no. catalog | |
| Holdsworth, Claud Butler and F.H. Grubb | N/A | Detailed information about these british manufacturers: models, catalogues, frame no. | |
| Jack Taylor | Enthusiast Website | Definitely THE site for the Jack-Taylor-enthusiast: Models, Serial No., Catalogues, Transfers and well researched information about the british brotherhood. | |
| Lotus Bicycles, Vintage | Enthusiast Website | Website for information about 1980-1990 Lotus Bicycles. | |
| Masi by Bob Hovey | N/A | Covers italian as well as american Masis. Very well structured site with Masi registry, catalogues, bikes, links and so on. | |
| Mavic Timeline | N/A | Timeline including the development of the company, racing involvement, and various product introductions. | |
| Mercian | N/A | Official site of the still ongoing business with a brief history and catalogue scans. | |
| Mercian Cycles Register | N/A | Research into pre-1970s Mercians | |
| Panasonic Bicycles Virtual Museam | N/A | Fantastic resource for Panasonic bicycles of the 70's through 90's | |
| Privitera Frame Builder | N/A | Frames from Argentina | |
| Raleigh Chopper | N/A | Nothing else than Raleigh Choppers! Lots of pictures. | |
| René Herse | N/A | Very informative and well structured site about René Herse Cycles and some other makes. French language only. | |
| Retro Peugeot | Enthusiast Website | Peugeot 'Bike-boomers' Website, dedicated to pugs sold during the 1960s and 1970s. | |
| Retro Raleighs | N/A | Specific to Raleighs | |
| Schwinn Bike Forum | N/A | Schwinn Bicycle Forum - All about Schwinns and other makes too | |
| Schwinn Catalogs 1980-1990 | N/A | Schwinn Specific website of catalogs from 1890s-2000 | |
| Schwinn Lightweight Data Book | N/A | Schwinn Lightweight Specific information up through around 1980 | |
| Schwinn Paramount Registry | N/A | Registry of early Schwinn Paramounts up till 1960 | |
| Sekine Cycles History | N/A | CANADIAN & VINTAGE LIGHTWEIGHT BICYCLE | |
| Shimano and Suntour | N/A | Reference photographs from Shimano and Suntour components from the early 1990ies. German and english description. | |
| Simplex collection | N/A | Collection of Simplex parts, well photographed, with japanese descriptions. | |
| Specialites T.A. components and accessories | N/A | TA Fan site on blackbirdsf.org | |
| Sturmey Archer Heritage | N/A | Amazing list of documents and history of S.A. hubs. | |
| Suntour Bicycle Componentry | N/A | Photographs of various Suntour components | |
| The Evolution of Brooks Saddle Badges | N/A | Describing the changes to the Brooks badge over the course of history | |
| The Gazelle Pages | N/A | Information in helping ID Gazelle frames. | |
| Tutto Campy Bici | N/A | All things Campagnolo: old and new | |
| Umberto Dei on blackbirdsf.org | N/A | Details and photos of the brand and bikes | |
| Umberto Dei on Classic Rendevous | N/A | Translation of the history of Umberto Dei | |
| Vintage Cannondale | N/A | unoffical vintage cannondale website. | |
| Vintage Centurion | Enthusiast Website | Up and coming site dedicated to preserving a knowledge base for Centurion Bicycles | |
| Vintage-Trek | N/A | Trek Specific - has dating codes for many old components | |
| Vitus History by Norris Lockley | Classic Rendevous | History of Vitus and Ateliers de la Rive | |
General Cycling Websites (18 links)
Local Bike Shops (18 links)
| Name | Type | Details |
| A Bicycycle Odyssey | N/A | 1417 Bridgeway ,Sausalito,Ca 415-332-3050 inventory of Ron Cooper frames and others | |
| A-1 Bicycles | N/A | A-1 Bicycles located at 10211 Manchester in Kirkwood (St Louis), MO. | |
| American Cyclery | N/A | 510 Frederick st,San Francisco 415-664-45Vintage parts45 old time shop with some inventory of | |
| Around Town Bicycles | N/A | Located at: Rear 59 N. Main Street • Wilkes-Barre, PA. 18701 | |
| Bicycle Exchange | N/A | Located in Historic Downtown Carrollton (suburb of Dallas), TX. Many vintage parts and bicycles. | |
| Cafe de Velo | N/A | Online provider of Vintage NOS parts. | |
| CONTINENTAL COMPONENTS (campyoldy.com) | N/A | Possibly one of the largest stocks of pre-1997 vintage Campagnolo and classic equipment | |
| Cupertino Bike Shop | N/A | Located in San Jose, CA. Mostly dealing in newer stuff now but still has beautiful Italian bikes and frames from the 70's. Older campy parts, vintage jerseys and shoes, and more stuff than I could list here. | |
| Cycles de Oro | N/A | Owned by Dale Brown, located at 1410 Mill Street, Greensboro, North Carolina 27408 | |
| Gorilla Bicycles | N/A | Website for German eBay user Mozzy66 | |
| Harris Cyclery | N/A | Home shop of Sheldon Brown. 1353 Washington Street, West Newton, Massachusetts 02465 | |
| Richardson Bikemart | N/A | Large bikeshop in Richardson, Texas. Willingly works on vintage bikes and has some older components and parts | |
| Shaws Lightweight Cycles | N/A | 45 Washington st ,Santa Clara Ca 408-246-7881 | |
| Velo Sport | N/A | 1615 University ave,Berkeley,CA 510-849-0437 once a source for Masi,Colnago ,Bianchi and Raleigh plus lots more. Now just a modern bike store | |
| Velo-Orange | N/A | Extensive online store front as well as show room in Annapolis MD. Carries many hard to find vintage parts | |
| Via Bicycle | N/A | Philadelphia, shop buys & sells Used bicycles, website is an invaluable source for rare and vintage parts and Information. | |
| Wallingford Bicycle Parts | N/A | Specalizes in Brooks Saddles | |
| Yellow Jersey Ltd | N/A | Internet sales and store location at 419 State Street, Madison, WI 53703 | |
Vintage Friendly Bike Shops (15 links)
| Name | Type | Details |
| Bicloune | N/A | Located in Paris, France, worth a visit. | |
| Bicycle Classics | Shop Website | Online shop with huge offer of vintage components | |
| Bike-Vintage | N/A | Online shop for vintage frames and parts | |
| Cicli Berlinetta | Shop Website | Located in Berlin, Germany, has always vintage bikes, frames and components to offer | |
| Cicli Passione | N/A | Online shop with offer of vintage components | |
| HilaryStone.com | Shop Website | Hilarystone.com is devoted to older race, road, track and touring bikes, frames and parts to fit. There will be some retro MTB parts, frames and even the occasional bike too. | |
| John's Vintage Bicycles | N/A | Based in Boulder, Colorado, this shop specializes in roadsters, vintage balloon-tired bikes and a variety of other vintage goodies. Great photo collection, too! | |
| Mario's Bike Shop - defietsenmaker.nl | Shop Website | 30 years experience in race and normal bicycles and for the last few
years also specialised in vintage parts. | |
| Matuzmaster | N/A | Hungarian online shop with focus on 1980s to 1990s parts and bicycles. No prices quoted, you have to ask. Mostly parts in english language, besides hungarian, swedish, japanese and rumanian. | |
| RWK Bicycles | Shop Website | A small workshop in Five Oak Green, near Tonbridge, Kent. Takes on reconstruction projects and will look for rare and unusual vintage parts. Not a shop but a workshop. | |
| Velo Cult | N/A | Located in San Diego, CA, they also have an online shop with very well presented vintage frames and bicycles. | |
| Velo Mine | Shop Website | There is always an offer of vintage bicycles, frames and components | |
| Vintage Bike Cave | Shop Website | We offer a range of vintage bicycle services, covering everything from custom builds and rare parts, to rentals and maintenance. Whatever your requirements, we should be able to help!
We are based in the UK but service customers all over the world. | |
| Vintage NOS Bicycle Parts | Shop Website | Web shop for eBay seller pb*bikes. | |
| Yellow Jersey, Ltd. | N/A | Owner, Andrew Muzi - great source for vintage bike support, frame repair, paint, etc. | |
Painting & Frame Restoration (10 links)
| Name | Type | Details |
| Anderson Custom Bicycles | Shop Website | Anderson Custom Bicycles specializes in custom frame construction as well as restoration and repair (including paint). | |
| Brooker Enterprises | Shop Website | Powder Coating of many different items including bicycle frames. Located in Portland, OR | |
| CyclArt | Shop Website | Restoration, custom painting, leather craft, decal application. Located in Vista, CA | |
| Ed Litton Cycles | Shop Website | Frame builder,Painter and restoration specialist | |
| Franklin Frame | Shop Website | Frame builder and painter. Top notch work. Located in Ohio. Very reasonable prices. | |
| Joe Bell Bicycle Refinishing | Shop Website | Painting, Refinishing and Frame Repair. Located Spring Valley, CA. | |
| Southwest Frameworks | Shop Website | David Cheakas of Southwest Frameworks custom builds frames, will do repairs and painting work. Located in Dallas, TX. | |
| Spectrum Powder Works | Shop Website | Specalizing in Powder Coat, located in Colorado Springs, CO | |
| Transfers reproduction | Shop Website | Not being cheap they have besides car and motorbike brands some rare bicycling transfers, mostly german makes, but i.e. also Reynolds 531. Description in german, but order is possible in english. | |
| VeloCals | Shop Website | Reproduction bicycle decals by JR Anderson, aka JRRestore on BikeForums.net | |
Other Sites of Interest (9 links)
| Name | Type | Details |
| Bike Race Info | N/A | Current and historical race results, plus interviews, bikes and cycling history. | |
| Gipiemme - Gruppi Completi e Componenti | Image Host | Photographs of various Gipiemme components | |
| Harlequin wraped bars - Wastedlife.org | Enthusiast Website | There is an illustrated article of "how to wrap road bars with a harlequin pattern" | |
| Historic results of cycling races | N/A | List of results of the most important cycling races such as world cups, Olympic Games, TdF, Giro, Vuelta and so on. | |
| retrobike | Enthusiast Website | Dutch site about a vintage classic bike show and fair | |
| Schuermann velodromes | N/A | Official site of the architects Schuermann, leading draughtsmen of velodromes. List of 150 velodromes with info about year of construction, track material. German and english language. | |
| Track cycling - early years | N/A | Well pictured site around german track cycling pioneer Clemens Schuermann. Partly english language. | |
| Velodrom Vigorelli | N/A | Official site of the legendary Vigorelli-Velodrom in Milan with many information (italian language only) and contemporary photographs. | |
| Wilms on wheels | N/A | Internet bibliography covering english, french, italian and german books about cycling. Lots of historical and vintage theme books are listed, different ways of researching possible. | |
Best of BikeForums.net C&V (6 links)
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