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DONATE A BIKE
We welcome donations of sturdy bikes that are in
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click here for more information. To drop off donated bikes (contact us first
please) here's location information to the MSU Bikes Service Center.
Bicycle Repairman |
Queen's "Bicycle Race" Tune |
Awesome Bike Parking |
 You'll be amazed and inspired by what this one-legged rider accomplishes. |
 The Women's Phebus design from an 1896 poster available from the Retro Image Apparel Co's Horton Collection of jerseys. Fabulous! |
 Some of the vintage bicycle posters available from the Horton Collection.  The Horton Collection's book, "Cycling's Golden Age"... "captures the magical time period of road racing after WWII through 1967. Both the images and writing bring everything to life. From Coppi's maglia rosa to Hugo Koblet's yellow jersey to the drop dead gorgeous photos, this book is a view of racing never before told." |
 Bike Furniture... Rocks! |
 Detail of a Richard Sach's Pista frameset... one of America's greatest frame builders (click photo for more pics of that frame). Click here for the NAHBS 2007 exhibitors list for more frame builders. |
 '72 Masi for Christmas? |
 Lovely old Campagnolo parts, tools, catalogs you name it. |
 Wonderful collection of photos and information on bicycle pedals |
 A lovely bamboo trailer that you can make yourself! |
The classic Monty Python skit that's required viewing by dedicated bike mechanics everywhere. A must see. (This version has a bonus performance by John Cleese). Click here to view larger version direct at Youtube.com
OK, OK, I'm on a retro/ classic kick. Click here to view the classic rock video of the tune direct at Youtube.com.
OK, this might not be a bike treasure, but it sure looks like a system that cost a king's treasure to build! Also looks like it'll help keep many 2-wheeled treasures dry and safe! Straight from the robotic experts overrun by bicycles - Japan! It's in Japanese, but don't sweat it, the visuals tell it all. Direct YouTube link here.
If you're looking for something extremely inspirational and bike related on the lower end of the price scale consider "Emmanuel's Gift", an incredible story of a young man born in Ghana with a disfigured foot who refuses to become a beggar and decides to encourage others with disabilities by riding a bike across the country and ends of changing Ghana's treatment of disabled people at the highest levels.
A number of the wonderful posters held by the Horton Collection (see below) are available as jerseys by Retro Image Apparel Co. We're discussing a possible MSU-themed jersey with a mix of vintage and modern cycling graphics. Stay tuned!
Check out this incredible collection of vintage bicycle posters and other memorabilia. Incredible! We now have a copy of a book published by the Horton Collection, "Cycling's Golden Age" in our library if you'd like to see a copy before getting your own.
A member of our MSU Bikes Yahoo group sent a link to us for this upper- Michigan based company called Bike Furniture. From their site: "Working within the vernacular of classic modern furniture design, BFD founder Andy Gregg has continued to refine this comfortable and durable furniture since 1990." This company has some great stuff for the cyclist who needs to have bikes everywhere around them and under them. Check 'em out!
Perhaps you or the significant cyclist in your life is ready for the next phase of their cycling obsession, a hand-built frame. Nothing compares to the experience of having your own name on a lovely custom-made frame between your legs. But where do you begin looking if you're in the market? The best place to go would be the N. American Handmade Bicycle Show. This year it's being held in Portland, OR, one of the best cities in the USA for bicycling and bicyclists. But what if you can't make it to the show? Well, check out their exhibitors list from the 2007 show and they're all hot-linked to their web sites and you can go virtual shopping to your hearts' content!
Ever wonder what it'd be like to get a brand-new '72 Masi for Christmas and get to unwrap it? Check out this photo series to vicariously live the experience (unfortunately, the own sold the bike before he could finish setting it up...). This guy's (John Barron) Velo Stuf web site is a true treasure box of classic racing steel bike wonders.
A good friend and bike collector sent me a link to this Japanese web site that features lovely old Campagnolo parts, tools, catalogs you name it. Excellent photos; great for researching an old restoration. The link takes you to an automatically translated page which has some pretty humourous English, so if you can ignore the text, the photos are wonderful. Check it out here.
Wonderful collection of photos and information on bicycle pedals courtesy of the folks at Speedplay. Yes, just pedals.
Yes, you can make a bike trailer out of bamboo or other similar materials. Free plans and examples and other free trailer plans on this page here.
(Thanks to Thomas Harpstead for sending us this one)
Yes, you can make a bike frame out of bamboo, and there have been people doing so since the late 1800's apparently. Check them out here.
Ever wonder what the Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" would sound like played exclusively on bike parts? Well, San Francisco-based composer Flip Baber has this rendition to offer for your listening pleasure. It was created as an advertising ditty for Specialized coming soon. (Click on the little white on red arrow next to the speaker symbol; uses Flash Player).
The Rydjor Bike Shop Bike Collection is one of the most complete and beautiful collections I've ever seen. Starting with an 1868 Boneshaker it includes gorgeous examples of every significant type of bike and most of the notable manufacturers known to mankind. Have a spare hour or two to kill?
Just happened across the Worksman
Cycles web site.
These guys have been making all kinds of industrial
work bikes, trikes, ice-cream trikes, trailers, etc.
and a full range of heavier-duty tandems and single
bikes here in the USA since 1898. Check 'em out!
Recently discovered spoke bracelet design in E. Lansing that is simple & yet elegant. We sell these in our shop now. They're made by an MSU student! Click the photo or here for more pics of it.
 Messenger Joel Metz in between jobs with his very cool heavily
customized Sycip. Check out his web site for a LOT more info. on this amazing bike &
others. Portland is also home to the Community
Cycling Center, which claims to have started the first "yellow
bike" program in the USA years ago. |
Killing some time in Portland in Oct. 2005 the webmaster was delighted to see so many bikes and facilities promoting/ accomodating bicycle commuters. The first commuter he spoke to had just locked up her baby trailer after riding in with her child and locked it up inside a parking garage; intrigued with seeing my first car garage with bicycle parking facilities inside she explained that it's Portland code for car parking garages to provide X number of bike parking facilities inside their garage; how cool! He captured those parking facilities & a number of very unique bikes, mostly messenger bikes (photos). The number of bikes using fixed gear was pretty amazing; having ridden track bikes quite a lot both on the track & road for training he can't imagine riding in heavy city traffic loaded down w/ stuff on a fixed gear, but apparently it's The Way to go if you're a messenger! He ended having coffee with a cycling gentleman on a fully-loaded touring setup who'd ridden back and forth cross-country a couple years ago and decided to just stay in Portland and has continued his daily camping routine ever since and enjoying the experience to boot!
Awesome Collection of Gorgeous Classic Steel
Bikes...
This site features the collection of one very
lucky man, Raymond Dobbins, who's done a wonderful job photographing
his collection over the years. He also shares his photography
setup and tricks which is amazingly affordable and low-tech
for the incredible look he achieves. Check
it out...
You won't believe what these can do on their fixed-gear track bikes. Watch the video...
Just discovered the Bicycle Film Festival web site and learned about this annual event which sure would be a blast to attend. They've expanded the viewing locations around the world every year and now includes showings in NYC, LA, London, San Francisco, and Tokyo, and as part of RESFEST Seoul, so maybe it'll get close to E. Lansing someday or perhaps you can schedule it into an upcoming trip to one of these cities. Check out the trailer (helmet cam work by Lucas Brunelle, the same guy who's done the amazingly crazy bike messenger videos noted below); sign up for their email newsletter to find out when you can get a copy of their DVD.
So, you think you're daring for riding down Grand
River Ave. at rush hour? Guess again! Check out the
helmet-cam work of Lucas Brunelle in
these amazingly
crazy bike messenger videos.
Add a bicycle theme to your emails & other online messages with some ASCII-character artwork. Click here for a master archive for some pretty awesome work....
 Jeff & Craig Wilkinson fording a river during a month-long tour in 1979 after discovering the bridge was out. (photo by Tim Potter). See article about another tour Jeff took around the same area, summer '05. |
Joseph
Ahearne builds
frames, racks, stems and other stuff with "...love and fury in Portland,
Oregon".
He was one of many bike craft artists at the BikePortland BikeCraft Faire & Shift Winter Social. Check out his site and sit back and enjoy.
Darryl
Wattenberg started up the Michigan Cycling Podcast service in early 2005
which is a great service for Michigan cyclists. The May
30th podcast interview is a great plug for the
BP and our Farm Daze Tour that was held in May, 2005.
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Funky bikes for rent to promote cycling of all flavors; very
cool site, probably
one of the best I've seen.
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Bike Works NYC -
What a incredible site for bike enthusiasts around the planet; apparently
home to some very big-time cyclists in NYC. Huge archives of bike photos,
collectible bike parts (check out their
Chainring Archives)
or the Rollers Archives;
incredible pics!)
Tune-up and Repair section of this site for massive info. on this topic.
There's also Tips for
Buying a New Bike,
interactive puzzles,
Bikeopedia, Bicycle
Trivia, Bicyclists
Unite Against (safety advocates') Tyranny,
Oxy-Acetylene Welding,
25 Ways to Make Money with
Bicycles,
• Mikes' Mega Bicycle Links page - Awesome collection of bike related resource links; maybe the largest out there.
• Encycleopedia, is a multimedia
mix of interesting new products, the people who make and sell them, and
especially commissioned editorial features on associated themes. Online
archives of previous issues full of great content for reference. "Encycleopedia
is an important resource for learning about and finding things in the
cycling world, especially those that are a bit hard to find." - Richard
Ballantine
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Cyber Cyclery, Over 1.5 million times
a month people use Cyber Cyclery, your global cycling community & resource.
 Tim's brother & father in law out road training, mid-80's, in Japan. |
• Tim's Bike Photo Gallery - some scans (not very good unfortunately) of some old bike-related photos by Tim Potter (Bike Project web guy).
• Redbike Photography -
excellent bike racing pics by West coast photog Eric Smith.
• Out Your Backdoor, a totally unique web site created for & by folks who enjoy home-built fun stuff including but not limited to bikes (traditional, recumbent), skiing, kayaking, fishing, hunting & just about anything else you'll probably never find written about in the slick magazines. OYB is a publishing company & passion of Jeff Potter (Tim's older brother) who used to publish OYB as a paper 'zine for many years.
- Adventure Cycling Association - Cyclists need quiet, scenic roads and trails to enjoy. They research and develop the routes, and then produce the finest bicycling maps in North America -- and they've been doing it for going on 30 years.
