Great video. The museum is special. I walked in there a few years ago. The place happened to be empty but Joe Breeze himself, was gracious enough to give me a solo tour. He talked at me for well over an hour. His enthusiasm for bikes is infectious. If you are in Marin and are into bikes this is a must-see.
Me and my wife toured down the coast summer 2023 and paid this museum a visit. It is an amazing palace of bicycles and cycling history. Reliving our visit brightened my day. That's for the video.
I took a frame building class from Albert Eisentraut in the summer of 1972 for 10 days in Washington DC. What a time! So much (and yet so little) has changed. I think I still have some 35mm slides from that but...... It's been a long time ago-50 years-I'm 71-living on the southern Oregon coast but now riding an Aventon ebike. 3872 miles in 2024 and just a bit over 12,000 since 2 TKR's in the summer and fall of 2019. I think I'm a charter viewer of the BikeFarmer channel. Love it and keep up the good work.
Wow what an amazing place. Thank you Andy for taking us there and to Aaron for such a fasinating guided tour. If I lived in California and not the UK I would be paying a visit for sure. Great video.
Wow it’s always fascinating to see the progression of mechanical contrivances. I would imagine any new designers/builders must feel like they’re standing on the shoulders of giants. Thanks for taking us along Andy.
This is a truly amazing video made even better by your expert commentary! Thanks for sharing your experience at the museum and for all the close up shots of these beautiful bikes.
What a treat. Wonderful. I was involved with early Mountain Bike scene in the U.K. from early 1980’s. Road Racer during 1970’s ,saw early mountain bike during time in California 1980.. on my return to Oxford U.K. my friend ,with whom I worked at Walton St Cycles had also come across early mountain bike in Colorado. So we started selling-riding-developing Mountain Bikes and were one of the first Mountain Bike Specialist shops in Europe. Amazing times pre -suspension,Lycra,regulated events!! After following bike tech for decades the current Carbon,aero,integrated road bikes have lost their soul( in my opinion) . Thank you for this content.
So excited for this one! I got to see the Wright Brothers bike shop at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit. So cool that airplanes were developed by bike mechanics. 🚲✈️
I lived in Marin from 1970 to the late 70s, and even had one of those inch pinch bombers I'd drag up Mt Tam and bomb down. I still have a 1982 or 83 Stumpjumper 15 speed, total tank of a bike, but its all beat to heck from 20 years of hard riding, its been in storage since the late 90s. I've lived down in Monterey Bay since 1977, but my brother still lives up there, and I've driven by this Bike Museum a couple times and didn't even notice it :O ... I HAVE to make a stop there next time I'm up that way.
Wow! I'd be interested in doing a restoration video on your Stumpy. It will be very expensive to ship, but maybe we can work something out. email me at wrench@thebikemobile.com if you're into it.
Do it! Would be epic. I had an ‘81, and should have held on to that bike. I met a guy from Marin Co on a homemade clunker in 1980 and he was aware Spech was coming out with a production mtb the next year. I waited and bought one as soon as I could. Brought it to Nome Alaska that summer. Might have been the first mtb in the state. Definitely the first in Nome.
Love that Pierce Arrow, nickel plated parts, a work of art! Wow, thanks for the tour and all the closeups on the components etc. I’ll be watching this many more times! ❤
Amazing collection, Love bike history! Never saw one of my bikes “Klein Mantra” but very interesting, I will be making the trip hopefully this summer, I plan on riding my Harley down to California, I probably would take a couple of days just to soak in all the details! Especially loved the 1902 full suspension bike and the Drive shaft bikes from the early 1900’s. the different chains were also so interesting! Loved this Video so much, thanks for sharing, I’ve already shared it with a fellow cyclist who will also really enjoy these beautiful machines! The ball bearings, the derailleurs, the gas lights , AMAZING INVENTORY OF THE BEST INVENTION EVER!
Very cool. I started out with a Huffy "BMX" back in the 80s (the cool kids had Diamondbacks). Had a Schwinn mountain bike (no suspension) that became a paper route bike. Then got a GT road bike mainly for triathlons and centuries. Added a Klein full suspension mountain bike for single track in the Bay area and Tahoe. Eventually replaced the GT with a Scattante. Great to see the history in this museum, I'll have to visit someday.
Love your videos man! I was just recommended a video this morning and I’ve binged watched about a half dozen more! You don’t need a stranger on the internet to tell you this, but you seem like a really wholesome, sweet, and genuine guy. I’ll never understand why assholes leave hurtful comments. Keep doing what you’re doing and I know your channel will get to where you want it to be😊 I have a late 90’s Bridgestone MB3 and a 04 Trek 1000SL. You have me excited for warmer weather so I can get back out and ride lol. Thanks for making videos. I appreciate you.
mtn bikes & the San Francisco music scene... uniquely launched as American phenomena. that's the core of an important, world class museum. "one would hope" ... that some hyper-wealthy SV folk would be thrilled to support & attach their names to such an important effort - creating one of the World's Newest & Greatest Museums - celebrating our Nation''s history of innovation, craftsmanship, industrial might, competition, social evolution... & happiness. great walk-through, Farmer. now, let's see them multi-millionaires kick-in to do a good thing.
I just feel so lucky and privileged to say that these are my home roads (I ride over the GG Bridge and over the Fairfax/Bolinas Road weekly) and I take out of town family and friends to the Bike Museum regularly. Just past the museum is a 7-11 that we buy snacks and drinks at for long days out on the 2 lane roads of Marin. Cycling paradise (except weekend traffic is a battle for space on the narrow routes). Cool to see a visitor's take on it all.
Visited the museum years ago when they were just getting started. It's amazing to see it today. Next time you go check out the Cunningham in detail, especially the brakes. The guy was a genius at innovation.
We were in the area for a wedding, and stopped in the museum. We were talking to the nice lady there and having a great time. She mentioned something about "Joe" owning the place, and it turned out she meant Joe Breeze! And we chatted a little more, and it turned out that she was his wife. :) Such a nice time with such a nice lady. Really great old bikes, and you can get up close and personal with them.
Somewhere else you should visit if you are ever even close is the Wheels Through Time museum in Maggie Valley, NC. It is not too far (day trip) from Asheville NC. It is a similar museum centering around motorcycles but it does a fair job at showing great examples of the transition from early bicycles to motorized cycles. They have some of the earliest bikes I’ve ever seen that are literally converted bicycles. It is also worth noting that every display is in running condition. As a bike and motorcycle nerd it is a must see.
Thanks for the tour BF, that was awesome! Rigi, an Italian maker, was one of the brands that made split seat tube frames, but I’m sure there were many that did the same in pursuit of the almighty power transfer. Ritchey Logic cranks were made by Sugino, a lot of his handlebars, stems and seatposts were from Nitto.
Amazing place have been there multiple times, Joe & Connie Breeze are often there super friendly & approachable. the museum sells quality donated bikes on craigslist another good way to support the museum. Don’t forget the US Bicycle Hall of Fame in Davis California, 90 minutes up route 80 from Fairfax, 3 floors of bicycle history they have a very impressive collection of early wooden bikes and a whole lot more.
I can't believe I have never been here! We just had a 6 month long exhibition near where I live south of Paris called "Roue Libre" or Free Wheel that walked you through the history of bicycle design and notable periods. It was really cool but this museum looks absolutely stunning! Thank you so much for the visit ;)
I rode out to Fairfax (only about 8 miles from where I was living) for the opening day ceremonies and a couple other visits through the years. It's an excellent museum.
Я думал, что меня уже невозможно удивить чем либо в мире велосипедов. Но вам удалось это сделать. Я удивлëн и восхищëн этой коллекцией велосипедов! Чистый восторг! Благодарю вас за экскурсию, в это волшебное место.
At 49:43 there was a red Vélo Sport . Those where made in Québec... depending on the year...I think...hmm🤔. They have bikes from everywhere and every style.! Just amazing.👌👍
The old Schwinn shop in my town had 3 or 4 of those shaft driven bikes, a couple of which were in rideable condition. Never got to ride one, but I did get to play around a little with the driver train. It's an interesting system. I really like the older bikes with all curved tubes and stays.
So cool. I have been wanting to go for the klunker and MTB collection, but now, I really want to see the Golden Era collection. Thank you for the tour. Can't wait to see it in person
I rode a Klein Attitude in the three tone Dolomite for over 30 years. 10:34 I ran it with XT and eventually upgraded to XTR. I went through so many sets of wheels. Such a fantastic bike.
If I had to categorize myself, I’d consider myself a “BMX guy” more than anything, however I probably would have been geeking out just as much as you were. I love all things bicycle and those were some amazing machines. Absolutely beautiful bikes all throughout that entire place. And yes, the Camera Corner Wende documentary was a great video. If I were alive back then, I would’ve been droppin tabs and doing the same stuff. This was a great video. Thank you.
Wow, that Breezer at 4:30 has a "leading axle" fork. That was a cool thing in BMX. I still have a 1981 Red Line Pro Line II with a Bottema fork - extended way beyond the axle and just looked so cool.
Actually old bicycles like the Penny Farthing with its solid tires ride better than you’d think- the long spokes of that giant front wheel soaks up a lot of the vibration. I can attest to this as I used to ride one when I was with the circus. It wasn’t until they moved to our modern “Safety” bicycle design that had two small wheels of the same size that pneumatic tires became a necessary thing. 👍
That 1891 Victor is one of my favorites. I hope to visit the museum someday. I have been digital friends with Charlie Kelly for years. In fact where is he? I was totally expecting that he would be there. Wendy is Awesome, such a cool person and she, in my opinion, single handedly documented the growth of MTB. Any way, Great segment Sir. You are an inspiration for me. I am kind of trying to copy your methodology and process in my own bike shop. Thank you Dude. I love your channel. Cheers - M
I may be biased but I do have one suggestion for the collection; one that I do believe deserved a mention... it is the 1985/6 Schwinn Voyageur SP Touring Bike. Yes, it is a Schwinn, but it is special for many facts and features for the time. It was one of the absolute best touring bikes ever made into production as a true touring bike; from its specific use and design for the frame and fork, and use of components to make this one bike stand out significantly over all other touring bikes of the time. The frame used a combination of Columbus SL & SP tubing to create both a very strong frame while also using technology to give it lightweight and flexibility where needed -- a 24lb bike dry but with touring mounts built-in for the time to accommodate the most sophisticated set of racks and touring bags for cross country use. Some may say that it doesn't deserve a mention because it was made in Japan, but given the major market of the time for most bikes, unless you bought a custom made (hand-made) bike from the U.S. for $2,500 on up, the Schwinn Voyageur SP for $550 (what I paid back in '86) was by far the absolute best choice for that era without having to go customs made. No other manufacturer at the time made an equivalent without it being custom, and that should say a lot about what Schwinn delivered on this bike. When others did manage to make touring bikes, they were over a $1K on up for the same quality, and yet still Schwinn, for the time, beat the market in every way with this one touring bike. I love this bike so much that I have three of them in my collection... built to last and built to handle thousands of miles without any issues.
8:40 There hasn't been a major breakthrough game changer in a long time. It's been marginal improvements. Even seemingly modern things like disc brakes have been around for many decades. When I was a teenager in the 80s, my local bike shop had a road bike with disc brakes. I'm sure that wasn't the first one. Internally geared hubs, derailleur drive trains, suspensions, disc brakes etc all go back a very long way. The basic shape of a bicycle has not changed in well over a century, with the first being in 1876. Pneumatic tires go back to 1887. Even carbon fiber goes back to the 80s.
While living in Norway, I rode an old European bike which had a two-speed "kickback" rear hub. You'd back-pedal a partial stroke to switch gears. Since it was only two speeds, you were shifting between high and low gear. Low gear worked well on the hilly terrain while high gear gave some decent speed. I couldn't begin to guess how old it was. Surprised you didn't see any of those in the museum; although, to be fair, it may have been more of a European thing. I'm guessing Sturmey-Archer was the hub manufacturer.
Correction at 15:45 - ball bearings date from far earlier than the 1800s, though up till bicycles, the applications were heavy industry and military rather than civilian, so the market was much smaller. Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks had designs that used ball bearings, including cup and cone designs, as well as chain driven vehicles, but steel making wasn't really up to the job at that point, though I believe they had already developed some grades of spring steel, which made for far superior weapons than anything seen before, and they were mass produced in the millions. John Harrison in the UK is credited with inventing the caged ball bearing in the 1700s (So ball bearings in general were already around) as part of the system to reduce friction and eliminate the need for oil in the ocean going clocks he designed and built. These were the first reliable method ever demonstrated for determining longitude at sea. The first 3 clocks can be seen running in the Greenwich Observatory in London, and were more accurate through 100% mechanical means than off the shelf quartz watches are now. A basic quartz regulated Casio is good to about 5 seconds a month, he was targeting 1 second in 100 days, which is 1 in 8 640 000 or less than 1.16 x 10^-5 % error in each second measured.
There’s a historic thanksgiving day morning mtb ride that’s been a tradition for many of my friends and I that runs out of Fairfax. hundreds, if not thousands of riders, climb up into the headlands to enjoy the outdoors and each others company and build up an appetite for dinner. The museum has hosted a post ride party afterwards as well. Good times!
39:26 Probably Henrik Djernis' Ritchey MTB world champion bike. He won 3 years in a row from1992-94. I think think he still rides without front suspension and I do too because of him 🙂 . He owns a LBS not far from where i live in Denmark
Andel Classic cranks are a nice (and better made, shhh) copy of Campagnolos. A little more stripped back is the Sugino 75, but I love the honesty of its design.
Really loving this. True bike porn! Were you surprised there wasn't much drillium. I remember the "new" narrower bottom bracket for a narrow, more aero Q in The 70's, now we talk about wider. Then the rediculous long crank arms we are stick with today even though we no longer need the low cadence leverage to turn 52+ tooth chain rings. That Otis/Ritchey was built by Tom Teesdale who got his start at the shop I worked at in college Wolrd of Bikes, Ltd in Davenport ("manager").They NEED a Lambert. The history behind that Extracycle is worth a museum all by itself.
Obviously this is a mountain bike area, but I am Suprised how few BMX there is there. One of the few things I recognised straight away was the Haro. O and the Raleigh Small Wheels , just made a few miles down the road from me. Great video , some really nice stuff .
The director there is a great salesman for the bike industry which is sorely needed right now. Great vid and keep up the good work.
Aaron Allen is one of the most solid guys you'll ever meet.
what an absolute gem of a video! thank you for taking us with you!
Wow , not much to say , just amazing to see this , thank you bike farmer for giving me the chance to visit this from my home , truly grateful
Great video. The museum is special. I walked in there a few years ago. The place happened to be empty but Joe Breeze himself, was gracious enough to give me a solo tour. He talked at me for well over an hour. His enthusiasm for bikes is infectious. If you are in Marin and are into bikes this is a must-see.
Me and my wife toured down the coast summer 2023 and paid this museum a visit. It is an amazing palace of bicycles and cycling history. Reliving our visit brightened my day. That's for the video.
SERIOUSLY geeking out over this one 😮. I have an unreasonable love for antique bicycles 🚲
Thanks for sharing this awesome video. I was blown away how complete the museum collection documents the history of all bikes.
I took a frame building class from Albert Eisentraut in the summer of 1972 for 10 days in Washington DC. What a time! So much (and yet so little) has changed. I think I still have some 35mm slides from that but...... It's been a long time ago-50 years-I'm 71-living on the southern Oregon coast but now riding an Aventon ebike. 3872 miles in 2024 and just a bit over 12,000 since 2 TKR's in the summer and fall of 2019. I think I'm a charter viewer of the BikeFarmer channel. Love it and keep up the good work.
Wow what an amazing place. Thank you Andy for taking us there and to Aaron for such a fasinating guided tour. If I lived in California and not the UK I would be paying a visit for sure. Great video.
Wow it’s always fascinating to see the progression of mechanical contrivances. I would imagine any new designers/builders must feel like they’re standing on the shoulders of giants. Thanks for taking us along Andy.
This is a truly amazing video made even better by your expert commentary! Thanks for sharing your experience at the museum and for all the close up shots of these beautiful bikes.
What a treat. Wonderful. I was involved with early Mountain Bike scene in the U.K. from early 1980’s. Road Racer during 1970’s ,saw early mountain bike during time in California 1980.. on my return to Oxford U.K. my friend ,with whom I worked at Walton St Cycles had also come across early mountain bike in Colorado. So we started selling-riding-developing Mountain Bikes and were one of the first Mountain Bike Specialist shops in Europe. Amazing times pre -suspension,Lycra,regulated events!! After following bike tech for decades the current Carbon,aero,integrated road bikes have lost their soul( in my opinion) . Thank you for this content.
I was honored to take a tour with Joe Breeze! Had hours on that tour (happen to be in the shop when no one else was their)
Thanks for bringing us along…wow, so cool.
Videos like this are islands of sanity.
Hat tip to the volunteers that restore and maintain that collection.
So excited for this one! I got to see the Wright Brothers bike shop at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit. So cool that airplanes were developed by bike mechanics. 🚲✈️
I lived in Marin from 1970 to the late 70s, and even had one of those inch pinch bombers I'd drag up Mt Tam and bomb down. I still have a 1982 or 83 Stumpjumper 15 speed, total tank of a bike, but its all beat to heck from 20 years of hard riding, its been in storage since the late 90s. I've lived down in Monterey Bay since 1977, but my brother still lives up there, and I've driven by this Bike Museum a couple times and didn't even notice it :O ... I HAVE to make a stop there next time I'm up that way.
Wow! I'd be interested in doing a restoration video on your Stumpy. It will be very expensive to ship, but maybe we can work something out. email me at wrench@thebikemobile.com if you're into it.
Do it! Would be epic. I had an ‘81, and should have held on to that bike. I met a guy from Marin Co on a homemade clunker in 1980 and he was aware Spech was coming out with a production mtb the next year. I waited and bought one as soon as I could. Brought it to Nome Alaska that summer. Might have been the first mtb in the state. Definitely the first in Nome.
Absolutely amazing to see so many bikes, so much history in one spot, on display! Thanks BF
So many memories of bikes i came in contact over the years and fortunate to have a few of the items in my own collection. Great stuff.
Love that Pierce Arrow, nickel plated parts, a work of art! Wow, thanks for the tour and all the closeups on the components etc. I’ll be watching this many more times! ❤
My 1st bike in 34 years, I got into motorcycles, was the '22 Marin fairfax 2. Such a great bicycle and got me deeper into bike riding. Thanks BF
Amazing collection, Love bike history! Never saw one of my bikes “Klein Mantra” but very interesting, I will be making the trip hopefully this summer, I plan on riding my Harley down to California, I probably would take a couple of days just to soak in all the details! Especially loved the 1902 full suspension bike and the Drive shaft bikes from the early 1900’s. the different chains were also so interesting! Loved this Video so much, thanks for sharing, I’ve already shared it with a fellow cyclist who will also really enjoy these beautiful machines! The ball bearings, the derailleurs, the gas lights , AMAZING INVENTORY OF THE BEST INVENTION EVER!
that is pretty cool, thanks for uploading this one!
Very cool. I started out with a Huffy "BMX" back in the 80s (the cool kids had Diamondbacks). Had a Schwinn mountain bike (no suspension) that became a paper route bike. Then got a GT road bike mainly for triathlons and centuries. Added a Klein full suspension mountain bike for single track in the Bay area and Tahoe. Eventually replaced the GT with a Scattante. Great to see the history in this museum, I'll have to visit someday.
Love your videos man! I was just recommended a video this morning and I’ve binged watched about a half dozen more! You don’t need a stranger on the internet to tell you this, but you seem like a really wholesome, sweet, and genuine guy. I’ll never understand why assholes leave hurtful comments. Keep doing what you’re doing and I know your channel will get to where you want it to be😊 I have a late 90’s Bridgestone MB3 and a 04 Trek 1000SL. You have me excited for warmer weather so I can get back out and ride lol. Thanks for making videos. I appreciate you.
mtn bikes & the San Francisco music scene... uniquely launched as American phenomena. that's the core of an important, world class museum. "one would hope" ... that some hyper-wealthy SV folk would be thrilled to support & attach their names to such an important effort - creating one of the World's Newest & Greatest Museums - celebrating our Nation''s history of innovation, craftsmanship, industrial might, competition, social evolution... & happiness. great walk-through, Farmer. now, let's see them multi-millionaires kick-in to do a good thing.
Thanks for taking us along on your tour.
It is so cool to see these vintage bikes.
It awesome. 👍🏽
What a superb museum. If I’m ever on the West Coast again, it’s on my list!
I just feel so lucky and privileged to say that these are my home roads (I ride over the GG Bridge and over the Fairfax/Bolinas Road weekly) and I take out of town family and friends to the Bike Museum regularly. Just past the museum is a 7-11 that we buy snacks and drinks at for long days out on the 2 lane roads of Marin. Cycling paradise (except weekend traffic is a battle for space on the narrow routes). Cool to see a visitor's take on it all.
Visited the museum years ago when they were just getting started. It's amazing to see it today. Next time you go check out the Cunningham in detail, especially the brakes. The guy was a genius at innovation.
That place is heaven on earth.
Wow! What an amazing collection!
What an awesome video. Thanks for bringing us along. Added to the bucket list for sure.
We were in the area for a wedding, and stopped in the museum. We were talking to the nice lady there and having a great time. She mentioned something about "Joe" owning the place, and it turned out she meant Joe Breeze! And we chatted a little more, and it turned out that she was his wife. :) Such a nice time with such a nice lady. Really great old bikes, and you can get up close and personal with them.
Somewhere else you should visit if you are ever even close is the Wheels Through Time museum in Maggie Valley, NC. It is not too far (day trip) from Asheville NC. It is a similar museum centering around motorcycles but it does a fair job at showing great examples of the transition from early bicycles to motorized cycles. They have some of the earliest bikes I’ve ever seen that are literally converted bicycles. It is also worth noting that every display is in running condition. As a bike and motorcycle nerd it is a must see.
Thanks for the tour BF, that was awesome!
Rigi, an Italian maker, was one of the brands that made split seat tube frames, but I’m sure there were many that did the same in pursuit of the almighty power transfer.
Ritchey Logic cranks were made by Sugino, a lot of his handlebars, stems and seatposts were from Nitto.
I live 60 miles south of that museum and I did not know it existed, shame on me.
Definitely on my plans for a visit, now.
Thanks!
Outstanding place. Wish I would have kept my yellow 1971 Tour De France Motobecane I purchased in in 1972. Loved that bike.
Oh man, what a cool place and cool video. Pretty cool just seeing you reacting to some of these cool old bikes.
Excellent video man.
This is really fantastic. I really loved the 1800 and early 1900 bikes.
Great! Thanks for taking us to this fantastic museum!
Amazing place have been there multiple times, Joe & Connie Breeze are often there super friendly & approachable. the museum sells quality donated bikes on craigslist another good way to support the museum. Don’t forget the US Bicycle Hall of Fame in Davis California, 90 minutes up route 80 from Fairfax, 3 floors of bicycle history they have a very impressive collection of early wooden bikes and a whole lot more.
Absolutely stunning stuff!!
Big big fan of the bikes!!
Amazing and fun!Awesome and Awe-inspiring! Shared on my social media. Thank you for this video!
video isn't live to the public until Wednesday morning, but thank you!!
I can't believe I have never been here! We just had a 6 month long exhibition near where I live south of Paris called "Roue Libre" or Free Wheel that walked you through the history of bicycle design and notable periods. It was really cool but this museum looks absolutely stunning!
Thank you so much for the visit ;)
I rode out to Fairfax (only about 8 miles from where I was living) for the opening day ceremonies and a couple other visits through the years.
It's an excellent museum.
Я думал, что меня уже невозможно удивить чем либо в мире велосипедов. Но вам удалось это сделать. Я удивлëн и восхищëн этой коллекцией велосипедов! Чистый восторг! Благодарю вас за экскурсию, в это волшебное место.
Very cool place. Thanks for making this video.
Thank you for this Bike Farmer!
At 49:43 there was a red Vélo Sport . Those where made in Québec... depending on the year...I think...hmm🤔.
They have bikes from everywhere and every style.!
Just amazing.👌👍
Thanks!
Thanks hey!
The old Schwinn shop in my town had 3 or 4 of those shaft driven bikes, a couple of which were in rideable condition. Never got to ride one, but I did get to play around a little with the driver train. It's an interesting system.
I really like the older bikes with all curved tubes and stays.
So cool. I have been wanting to go for the klunker and MTB collection, but now, I really want to see the Golden Era collection.
Thank you for the tour. Can't wait to see it in person
I rode a Klein Attitude in the three tone Dolomite for over 30 years. 10:34 I ran it with XT and eventually upgraded to XTR. I went through so many sets of wheels. Such a fantastic bike.
If I had to categorize myself, I’d consider myself a “BMX guy” more than anything, however I probably would have been geeking out just as much as you were. I love all things bicycle and those were some amazing machines. Absolutely beautiful bikes all throughout that entire place. And yes, the Camera Corner Wende documentary was a great video. If I were alive back then, I would’ve been droppin tabs and doing the same stuff.
This was a great video. Thank you.
Thanks for taking us to the museum, if you ever get up to Burlington VT, take a walk through the Old Spokes Home. Also, that view from the top💯
Impressive! Glad a couple of Raleigh Superbes made it into the collection.
I totally geeked out on this episode, bikes are my favorite compound machines, especially steel.
Dude that was awesome! Thank you. I watched this with my Marin El Roy 👍👍🇺🇸
11:00 that Cannondale Super V DH Volvo bike is off the hook!
Wow, that Breezer at 4:30 has a "leading axle" fork. That was a cool thing in BMX. I still have a 1981 Red Line Pro Line II with a Bottema fork - extended way beyond the axle and just looked so cool.
I visited this year from the UK, had a great tour with Jo.
Amazing place and well worth a visit if you are in the area!
Actually old bicycles like the Penny Farthing with its solid tires ride better than you’d think- the long spokes of that giant front wheel soaks up a lot of the vibration. I can attest to this as I used to ride one when I was with the circus.
It wasn’t until they moved to our modern “Safety” bicycle design that had two small wheels of the same size that pneumatic tires became a necessary thing. 👍
for the bike nerd's creativity ingenuity equates to bling imo. great vid
Love the Steve Potts bikes, so classic.
23:32 The logo says Tourney. It's an early Sugino Takagi (ST) Tourney crankset. You can find images where the logo is less worn.
Super inspiring video, thank you for share it with us!
Thank you for sharing this.
That 1891 Victor is one of my favorites. I hope to visit the museum someday. I have been digital friends with Charlie Kelly for years. In fact where is he? I was totally expecting that he would be there. Wendy is Awesome, such a cool person and she, in my opinion, single handedly documented the growth of MTB. Any way, Great segment Sir. You are an inspiration for me. I am kind of trying to copy your methodology and process in my own bike shop. Thank you Dude. I love your channel. Cheers - M
I may be biased but I do have one suggestion for the collection; one that I do believe deserved a mention... it is the 1985/6 Schwinn Voyageur SP Touring Bike. Yes, it is a Schwinn, but it is special for many facts and features for the time. It was one of the absolute best touring bikes ever made into production as a true touring bike; from its specific use and design for the frame and fork, and use of components to make this one bike stand out significantly over all other touring bikes of the time. The frame used a combination of Columbus SL & SP tubing to create both a very strong frame while also using technology to give it lightweight and flexibility where needed -- a 24lb bike dry but with touring mounts built-in for the time to accommodate the most sophisticated set of racks and touring bags for cross country use. Some may say that it doesn't deserve a mention because it was made in Japan, but given the major market of the time for most bikes, unless you bought a custom made (hand-made) bike from the U.S. for $2,500 on up, the Schwinn Voyageur SP for $550 (what I paid back in '86) was by far the absolute best choice for that era without having to go customs made. No other manufacturer at the time made an equivalent without it being custom, and that should say a lot about what Schwinn delivered on this bike. When others did manage to make touring bikes, they were over a $1K on up for the same quality, and yet still Schwinn, for the time, beat the market in every way with this one touring bike. I love this bike so much that I have three of them in my collection... built to last and built to handle thousands of miles without any issues.
I live not far from there, and always thought it was mountain bike-centric as well. I'll need to get down there this Summer.
that bike at 9 minute mark is stunningly beautiful.
So fascinating to see how far it’s come.
8:40 There hasn't been a major breakthrough game changer in a long time. It's been marginal improvements. Even seemingly modern things like disc brakes have been around for many decades. When I was a teenager in the 80s, my local bike shop had a road bike with disc brakes. I'm sure that wasn't the first one. Internally geared hubs, derailleur drive trains, suspensions, disc brakes etc all go back a very long way. The basic shape of a bicycle has not changed in well over a century, with the first being in 1876. Pneumatic tires go back to 1887. Even carbon fiber goes back to the 80s.
Awesome place! Thanks for sharing the tour. They even have an Alleweder.
Thank you for this gem of a video!!
Very cool. Time stamp 18:20 Fred Flinstone bike, yabba dabba do,..., could use a little Behold and Bike Farmer elbow grease ;-)
Wonderful video to watch on a day far too cold to bike where I live. Will check it out when I'm in the area.
Skipped by the Moulton twice! Alex Moulton forever changed cycling with smaller wheels and stuck it to Raleigh big time in the 60’s.
Very cool! Love seeing that Lemond Zurich in there.
Fabulous video👏👏👏…how do I get to your merchandise? Re your cycling cap? Can’t wait for the next video in CA 👏👏🇨🇦🇨🇦❤️
Thanks for the tour!
While living in Norway, I rode an old European bike which had a two-speed "kickback" rear hub. You'd back-pedal a partial stroke to switch gears. Since it was only two speeds, you were shifting between high and low gear. Low gear worked well on the hilly terrain while high gear gave some decent speed. I couldn't begin to guess how old it was. Surprised you didn't see any of those in the museum; although, to be fair, it may have been more of a European thing. I'm guessing Sturmey-Archer was the hub manufacturer.
That full suspension bike is gorgeous, never seen anything like it.
wow bike overlad!!! Thanks for making this vid. Can you give us a heads up next year so we can send you questions to ask hm???
Kool kids run spoke protectors ❤ excelent video, Andy ways himself at bike museum 🎉🎉🎉
Correction at 15:45 - ball bearings date from far earlier than the 1800s, though up till bicycles, the applications were heavy industry and military rather than civilian, so the market was much smaller. Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks had designs that used ball bearings, including cup and cone designs, as well as chain driven vehicles, but steel making wasn't really up to the job at that point, though I believe they had already developed some grades of spring steel, which made for far superior weapons than anything seen before, and they were mass produced in the millions.
John Harrison in the UK is credited with inventing the caged ball bearing in the 1700s (So ball bearings in general were already around) as part of the system to reduce friction and eliminate the need for oil in the ocean going clocks he designed and built. These were the first reliable method ever demonstrated for determining longitude at sea. The first 3 clocks can be seen running in the Greenwich Observatory in London, and were more accurate through 100% mechanical means than off the shelf quartz watches are now. A basic quartz regulated Casio is good to about 5 seconds a month, he was targeting 1 second in 100 days, which is 1 in 8 640 000 or less than 1.16 x 10^-5 % error in each second measured.
There’s a historic thanksgiving day morning mtb ride that’s been a tradition for many of my friends and I that runs out of Fairfax. hundreds, if not thousands of riders, climb up into the headlands to enjoy the outdoors and each others company and build up an appetite for dinner. The museum has hosted a post ride party afterwards as well. Good times!
Talk about packed to the rafters, that is an intense collection of history.
Was great to see ya over in our hood ! Does trek have any kind of Museum over at their headquarters by your place ? I love the Vintage treks !
39:26 Probably Henrik Djernis' Ritchey MTB world champion bike. He won 3 years in a row from1992-94. I think think he still rides without front suspension and I do too because of him 🙂 . He owns a LBS not far from where i live in Denmark
wow what a tour cheers
Have you ever ridden a steel rim bike? I liked it so much... It's rolling, rolling and rolling... 😮
Those RitcheyLogic cranks are beautiful. Perhaps the only component manufacturer that makes square taper cranks that comes close to it is Velo Orange.
Andel Classic cranks are a nice (and better made, shhh) copy of Campagnolos.
A little more stripped back is the Sugino 75, but I love the honesty of its design.
Nice bike history!
You should go back to do a top 10 favorite bikes in there. Maybe a lecture series!
this video did more to make me miss living there than anything else, I wish it was affordable
Really loving this. True bike porn! Were you surprised there wasn't much drillium. I remember the "new" narrower bottom bracket for a narrow, more aero Q in The 70's, now we talk about wider. Then the rediculous long crank arms we are stick with today even though we no longer need the low cadence leverage to turn 52+ tooth chain rings.
That Otis/Ritchey was built by Tom Teesdale who got his start at the shop I worked at in college Wolrd of Bikes, Ltd in Davenport ("manager").They NEED a Lambert. The history behind that Extracycle is worth a museum all by itself.
Nice to hear Gorf Morlix mentioned.
I think you were thinking of Bevil Hogg
Obviously this is a mountain bike area, but I am
Suprised how few BMX there is there. One of the few things I recognised straight away was the Haro. O and the Raleigh Small Wheels , just made a few miles down the road from me.
Great video , some really nice stuff .
have you heard of the Katy trail in Missouri? It's 400 miles of an old railroad right of way, accessible to bikes and hikers.