Fascinating place to visit but such a shame the visitor numbers are barely enough to keep it going. Desperately needs to be found a new location to let the collection expand. Well worth a visit if you end up in the middle of Wales.
Many of these bikes are on show at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester. I'm sure they'd gladly take the rest if this place ever shuts permanently.
I was actually there that day!! Very lucky enough for myself and my son to shake the man's hand....well worth the 3 hour drive just for that, many thanks again you made my son's day ✌
@@wangdangdoodie ah ok I think it was a car garage and it did Ave some old bikes on the walls, I had lots of old bikes I found many like those. On a refuse tip
Talk about sturdy delivery bicycles, I remember back in 65-66 sitting on the rear fender of the local grocer delivering on the bike. He made deliveries to the local schools and dropped me off at mine after going down a couple of steep hills.
Not rock hard of course, especially when riding cobbles or gravel. They give us the ability to regulate just how hard or soft we want our tires to be. Even at 120 psi, I'd much rather ride on a set of modern tires than some antiquated wooden or iron wheel.
I enjoy seeing the history and how things developed over the years. I see lots of vids on new tech, but I’m missing a lot of historical points from then to now. So good job!
Really highlights Jon's bike knowledge and enthusiasm - infectious. Saved this place on my google 'to visit' list. I think easily in the top 3 of his best vids. Keep it up please.
Super nice video - when I was a small boy I used to buy ice creams from a tricycle set up just like the one in the museum. The guy who rode it always seemed out of breath by the time he got to the top of our street. And he sold toffee-apples in the autumn when sensible people didn't eat ice cream anymore, The tricycle must have weighed a ton when fully loaded!
I think the reverse Penny Farthing came about because of the issue with riders pulling off an OTB and face planting, fracturing bones in their faces or broken jaws. As far as the bike with a steering wheel, I remember as a kid in the 70's it was a trend to put hotrod style steering wheels on Schwinn Crates with banana seats. Very awkward to ride and control.
@3:00 that's a K-model gear shifter for the rear hub (ca. pre 1932 I believe). That wouldn't be a throttle for the rear wheel assist. I say it's a 1932 machine with a 70's bell and wheel assist.
This place is amazing! They have a free car park at the rear. They did a special opening on a Sunday for my cycling club. The lady trustee, Freda, is a superstar
So tri bars and arm rests were invented around 1818 then, on the Hobby Horse (1:42). Other than materials I'd say little has changed on bicycles in the last 150 - 200 years. Just shows how brilliant the function and design of the bicycle is.
wow. I didn't know this museum existed and it's only an hour down the road.I need to see more of that recumbent as that's one of my favorite rides in my mini collection of cycling oddities, a Pashley PDQ.
Wonderful video; Here I am amazed at some of the bikes that parents show up to school with, toting their kids. Seats where pannier racks should be; but totally functional, kids & parents both enjoying the ride to school. No idea where these bike "contraptions" come from, not like you see them at department stores, but they are so cool. My Grandfather, who never learned to ride a bike as a kid, got hours & miles of use out of a tricycle; loved it & Grandma loved to see him out of the house while she cooked.
Excellent video. Really enjoyed this one, didn’t know this place existed- I now want to go… I own an ITERA and at least five rod brake bikes... Love the old stuff. Also would love that VELOX enamel sign.
I'm so sad I didn't go there when I was in northen Wales in August 😦... Btw. After you showed that bike with motor I thought of my father's friend, who owns a castle in Nové Hrady (Litomyšl district, Czech Republic) and he had there bicycle museum, which he has converted into motor-bicycle museum and it's very unique. If you find yourself nearby, you should come and visit it 😉.
Just for fun: Itera actually did a "sporty" version of their plastic bicycle, with drop bars and a full Campagnolo Nuovo Record group set. In Sweden that bike is a true collectors item these days. Apparently, one important reason why Itera failed was that they hadn't properly researched the bicycle market, so they just assumed that bike shops would gladly start selling bikes from a company they had never heard of. Since this wasn't the case, there weren't actually that many places where you could buy them. Also, the wheels were a lot better than the bikes. Light and nearly indestructible, they apparently found a market long after the bikes were gone, but that market wasn't bicycles.
Oh, and a perverted part of me wants to make a "carbon copy" of an Itera, ie a bike that looks exactly like an Itera, but is actually made from carbon fiber.
@@rasmuswi That should solve the "blancmange" problem! Seriously though, a plastic bike, properly engineered with modern composite materials could be a viable proposition.
Love this! Wish they'd show something on the post-WW1 German bikes with the spring wheels...No rubber available, so a bunch of springs instead. Early gravel bikes, anyone?
I have been to the Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen, Ohio and loved it. Now I have to visit Wales to see the UK Cycle Exhibition. The video was great but first hand is always better!
I've been meaning to visit the museum for sometime now. It's not far from me, and I can now use my bus pass to travel free on the train to Llandrindod from home in Llanelli anytime October to March. I've got the time as well now I'm retired, no excuses! For information of others interested in visiting, opening times can be found on the museum's website, www.cyclemuseum.org.uk/.
Bedstead bikes were a common-ish sight at town fairs and mayday parades and the like. Easily made by the town ironmonger and typically ridden by a gent in nightgown and bedcap.
Favorite tech has to be the Dunlop tyres, other than the invention of the bicycle itself. And it never ceases to amaze me that we have had safety bikes for just a century and a half and that some early automobiles were powered by electric motors at the wheels. And that e-trike was interesting and certainly a harbinger of what we have today with e-bikes.
That Pedersen surely promotes safe riding because given where the handlebars are mounted you basically have steel spike squarely aimed at your throat or chest area.
9:28 - your reference to Moulton. They are not 'fold-up' bicycles! (Really, you ought to address yourself to the factory in Bradford on Avon, they might give you a tour of the works and educate you about their astonishing machines)
I worked on a Pederson (?) replica once at a shop I worked for. It was super cool and the customer loved riding it, said it was very comfortable. I didn't have time to try though.
Watching this, why don't GCN do a book review for cyclist tech geeks, and have a vid about bicycle design? I recommend "Bicycles and Tricycles: A Classic Treatise on Their Design and Construction" by Archibald Sharp, old book, 1896, but almost all the bike design is there, compared to the modern era where bike design is mosty UCI and ITU confined.
There is an annual sportive event celebrating the World's first modern bicycle that was designed and produced in Coventry - the Rover safety bicycle designed by John Kemp Starley and made by Starley & Sutton Co. More information on the event next February and the history of the bike at: starleysportive.co.uk/ - And yes, I am a proud Coventrian :-)
At 9:06 the special Pederson frame. I've seen a new one on the street. There's a Pedersen association in the Netherlands. There's a man building and selling handmade Pedersen bikes. Many Germans are fond of Pedersen bikes. Check the internet, and buy one, everybody please, or production will grind to a halt, once more. Not a German, a Pederson framed bike. Those frames are great. But there's more than fancy restored old ones. Save money and buy a new one, please. We are used to that silly triangle, even the sport bikes are still triangular. And there are alternatives. Recumbent. Pedersen. Unicycle. You know more kinds, don't you? Have fun, for Pedersen is not gone, yet.
@@gcntech The bicycle is reputed to have ended the inbreeding endemic in remote communities. The invention of the bicycle supposedly enabled young men to court ladies from the next village.
Bicycling may have introduced universal sufferage, but was also about apparel: www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/the-technology-craze-of-the-1890s-that-forever-changed-womens-rights/373535/
While I appreciated the look at these historical bikes, I would have preferred to have Mike from American Pickers narrate the tour. He's much more educated on old bikes and surely could have provided more insight.
You have glossed over so much history. Michaud and brass pedals? ORIGINAL! Women are supposed to be on bikes? Women were liberated by bikes - travel at speed without supervision! The early Benz's were German motors on British quadracycles. Roads were not built for cars! And you want bike tech? Suspension is a 19th century invention! There are masterpieces and oddities of innovative design and engineering from the 19ctry all around the room.
Fascinating place to visit but such a shame the visitor numbers are barely enough to keep it going.
Desperately needs to be found a new location to let the collection expand.
Well worth a visit if you end up in the middle of Wales.
Every time I've tried to visit it has been closed
Many of these bikes are on show at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester. I'm sure they'd gladly take the rest if this place ever shuts permanently.
I was actually there that day!! Very lucky enough for myself and my son to shake the man's hand....well worth the 3 hour drive just for that, many thanks again you made my son's day ✌
hi Robin, great to meet you at the Museum. And great to hear you enjoyed it. Jon
must be a new museum it was nothere in 1989
@@jasperedwards3341 It did exist, but it was formerly in Oswestry.
I meant 85
@@wangdangdoodie ah ok I think it was a car garage and it did Ave some old bikes on the walls, I had lots of old bikes I found many like those. On a refuse tip
Talk about sturdy delivery bicycles, I remember back in 65-66 sitting on the rear fender of the local grocer delivering on the bike. He made deliveries to the local schools and dropped me off at mine after going down a couple of steep hills.
We’ve gone from solid tyres to pneumatic tyres, then we pump them up until they are rock hard again.
Not rock hard of course, especially when riding cobbles or gravel. They give us the ability to regulate just how hard or soft we want our tires to be. Even at 120 psi, I'd much rather ride on a set of modern tires than some antiquated wooden or iron wheel.
More hard=more air
Jon ,,,, you are a walking bicycle encyclopedia ,,,,,,, may the bicycle bug never leaves you....you honestly the best.....
thanks, Jon
If you are ever in Paris, the Musee des Arts et Metiers has a great collection of bikes, arranged in historical order.
I enjoy seeing the history and how things developed over the years. I see lots of vids on new tech, but I’m missing a lot of historical points from then to now. So good job!
I'm so glad I do not have to deal with cotter pins on crank arms anymore. I went through so many of those back when I did a paper run.
Really highlights Jon's bike knowledge and enthusiasm - infectious. Saved this place on my google 'to visit' list. I think easily in the top 3 of his best vids. Keep it up please.
Super nice video - when I was a small boy I used to buy ice creams from a tricycle set up just like the one in the museum. The guy who rode it always seemed out of breath by the time he got to the top of our street. And he sold toffee-apples in the autumn when sensible people didn't eat ice cream anymore, The tricycle must have weighed a ton when fully loaded!
I think the reverse Penny Farthing came about because of the issue with riders pulling off an OTB and face planting, fracturing bones in their faces or broken jaws.
As far as the bike with a steering wheel, I remember as a kid in the 70's it was a trend to put hotrod style steering wheels on Schwinn Crates with banana seats. Very awkward to ride and control.
@3:00 that's a K-model gear shifter for the rear hub (ca. pre 1932 I believe). That wouldn't be a throttle for the rear wheel assist. I say it's a 1932 machine with a 70's bell and wheel assist.
This place is amazing! They have a free car park at the rear. They did a special opening on a Sunday for my cycling club. The lady trustee, Freda, is a superstar
Well it's kind of a job centre car park because the DWP is above it but on Saturdays and Sundays it's not used.
1:00 it’s true, it was build in collaboration with Volvo, great video! Please do one only on the sinclair c5, that would be awesome!
So tri bars and arm rests were invented around 1818 then, on the Hobby Horse (1:42).
Other than materials I'd say little has changed on bicycles in the last 150 - 200 years.
Just shows how brilliant the function and design of the bicycle is.
wow. I didn't know this museum existed and it's only an hour down the road.I need to see more of that recumbent as that's one of my favorite rides in my
mini collection of cycling oddities, a Pashley PDQ.
Wonderful video;
Here I am amazed at some of the bikes that parents show up to school with, toting their kids.
Seats where pannier racks should be; but totally functional, kids & parents both enjoying the ride to school.
No idea where these bike "contraptions" come from, not like you see them at department stores, but they are so cool.
My Grandfather, who never learned to ride a bike as a kid, got hours & miles of use out of a tricycle; loved it & Grandma loved to see him out of the house while she cooked.
Excellent video. Really enjoyed this one, didn’t know this place existed- I now want to go… I own an ITERA and at least five rod brake bikes... Love the old stuff. Also would love that VELOX enamel sign.
you should visit! Jon
I'm so sad I didn't go there when I was in northen Wales in August 😦... Btw. After you showed that bike with motor I thought of my father's friend, who owns a castle in Nové Hrady (Litomyšl district, Czech Republic) and he had there bicycle museum, which he has converted into motor-bicycle museum and it's very unique. If you find yourself nearby, you should come and visit it 😉.
You know there is a Itera bike that was built for races? With Campagnolo stuff. I want too see you guys master that thing!
Just for fun: Itera actually did a "sporty" version of their plastic bicycle, with drop bars and a full Campagnolo Nuovo Record group set. In Sweden that bike is a true collectors item these days. Apparently, one important reason why Itera failed was that they hadn't properly researched the bicycle market, so they just assumed that bike shops would gladly start selling bikes from a company they had never heard of. Since this wasn't the case, there weren't actually that many places where you could buy them.
Also, the wheels were a lot better than the bikes. Light and nearly indestructible, they apparently found a market long after the bikes were gone, but that market wasn't bicycles.
Oh, and a perverted part of me wants to make a "carbon copy" of an Itera, ie a bike that looks exactly like an Itera, but is actually made from carbon fiber.
@@rasmuswi That should solve the "blancmange" problem! Seriously though, a plastic bike, properly engineered with modern composite materials could be a viable proposition.
Would like to see a show on British frame builders, particularly Jack Taylor Cycles!
Love this! Wish they'd show something on the post-WW1 German bikes with the spring wheels...No rubber available, so a bunch of springs instead. Early gravel bikes, anyone?
I have been to the Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen, Ohio and loved it. Now I have to visit Wales to see the UK Cycle Exhibition. The video was great but first hand is always better!
Thanks Jeff you'd love it!
I've been meaning to visit the museum for sometime now. It's not far from me, and I can now use my bus pass to travel free on the train to Llandrindod from home in Llanelli anytime October to March. I've got the time as well now I'm retired, no excuses! For information of others interested in visiting, opening times can be found on the museum's website, www.cyclemuseum.org.uk/.
Bedstead bikes were a common-ish sight at town fairs and mayday parades and the like. Easily made by the town ironmonger and typically ridden by a gent in nightgown and bedcap.
Jeezzz those bikes bring back memories of our old collection at home 😍😍😍
Rode practically all of 'em, beautiful machines - every last one 👍👍
That’s a good video about bikes history 🤗☀️🥰 Thank you guys
Favorite tech has to be the Dunlop tyres, other than the invention of the bicycle itself. And it never ceases to amaze me that we have had safety bikes for just a century and a half and that some early automobiles were powered by electric motors at the wheels. And that e-trike was interesting and certainly a harbinger of what we have today with e-bikes.
I want more!! You need to do more episodes from here.
stay tuned.....
great video jon
Like the history tour of bikes!! Jon - We see you are sporting a new GNC Jacket any details on what it is and are they available?
What a fantastic video Jon. Thank you 👍
Tremendous video JonnyTech, and well done on your perfect pronunciation of Llandrindod Wells. Can you do the next one from Machynlleth?
The bamboo bike from the 1890s is a stunner.
More video from the oldest bike vintage and classic bicycle all over the world watching frm damam KSA always takecare god bless
Well worth a Visit Guys!
That Pedersen surely promotes safe riding because given where the handlebars are mounted you basically have steel spike squarely aimed at your throat or chest area.
I reckon i've gotta go to Wales now.... Great looking museum.
it is brilliant. Stay tuned for part 2, we go ultra modern. Jon
“The Sinclair didn’t go very far Watt so ever” 😂
okantichrist 🤣
Nice seeing all the history.
You should visit!
Going through an entire museum of bikes, and not a single free hub sound check??? For shame Jon, for shame!
At 2:42 ,,,wow,,,, that was the motor that was used in a bike to win the Tour back in the day,,,,,,
Ooof, i thought my steel bike was old...
Cracking video, JC.
9:28 - your reference to Moulton. They are not 'fold-up' bicycles!
(Really, you ought to address yourself to the factory in Bradford on Avon, they might give you a tour of the works and educate you about their astonishing machines)
No flat tyres on the ice cream bike!
Wonderful piece Jon! with just a couple of mods that hobby horse could make for a good TT bike ;-) Are those wooden tires on the bamboo bici?
cheers, Jon
I worked on a Pederson (?) replica once at a shop I worked for. It was super cool and the customer loved riding it, said it was very comfortable. I didn't have time to try though.
"Stajvelo" , in Monaco , is currently developing a plastic E-bike
The Hobby Horse...a.k.a. world’s first tri-bike. Complete with arm rests for socializing. 😁
I, myself, like the music, yeah, nightclubbing sounds of joy I guess. YUP.
i think, just change to 1900's bike from those be like getting a fresh air, and it would be a gentle breeze for a today's bikes
fancy seeing a rickshaw here! 😂😂😂
Excellent!!!!!!!!
Trivial hypothetica question, Jon - how heavy would a person have to be to cause a modern metal frame bike to buckle when they sat on it?
I thought this is going to be a boring one, but it's quite interesting.
cheers, Jon
The "Jon I'm a Celeb Show" or a video about old bicycles?
That side car gave me the impression of looking like a mobile coffin.
It did look very precarious
How did people got on or off the 12 ft bike?
My Dad had an Itera. The Petersen is still made in Denmark
Watching this, why don't GCN do a book review for cyclist tech geeks, and have a vid about bicycle design? I recommend "Bicycles and Tricycles: A Classic Treatise on Their Design and Construction" by Archibald Sharp, old book, 1896, but almost all the bike design is there, compared to the modern era where bike design is mosty UCI and ITU confined.
You can't talk about the rubber tire without talking about Leopold the Turd and the Congo!
There is an annual sportive event celebrating the World's first modern bicycle that was designed and produced in Coventry - the Rover safety bicycle designed by John Kemp Starley and made by Starley & Sutton Co. More information on the event next February and the history of the bike at: starleysportive.co.uk/ - And yes, I am a proud Coventrian :-)
Forgot to ask..are you going to do a video on old racing bikes?
stay tuned :-)
Jon
Pretty sure that's Lasty at 13:39!!
Fascinada
I want a carbon aero di2 penny-farthing
Wow...
that woman tricycle looks like the ancient delta trike recumbent
Rod breaks on bikes are still produced
At 9:06 the special Pederson frame. I've seen a new one on the street. There's a Pedersen association in the Netherlands. There's a man building and selling handmade Pedersen bikes. Many Germans are fond of Pedersen bikes. Check the internet, and buy one, everybody please, or production will grind to a halt, once more. Not a German, a Pederson framed bike. Those frames are great. But there's more than fancy restored old ones. Save money and buy a new one, please.
We are used to that silly triangle, even the sport bikes are still triangular. And there are alternatives. Recumbent. Pedersen. Unicycle. You know more kinds, don't you? Have fun, for Pedersen is not gone, yet.
Pity that history of recumbents isn't better presented. Perhaps in some other GCN episode?
August Landmesser Says every seventy-year-old granola nut with a ZZ-Top beard. 😉
And remember watchers - young Jon was there to see most of these when they first came on the market :.)
cheeky git ;-) Jon
Is it not steel?
Could the bicycle have brought about universal sufferage?
Sounds like a good dissertation topic for a social historian
@@gcntech The bicycle is reputed to have ended the inbreeding endemic in remote communities. The invention of the bicycle supposedly enabled young men to court ladies from the next village.
Bicycling may have introduced universal sufferage, but was also about apparel: www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/the-technology-craze-of-the-1890s-that-forever-changed-womens-rights/373535/
Moultons don't fold!
They let you put your grubby little hands on them?
yes. Jon
where is part 2
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@GCN Do you want to try riding a Michaudine (3:12) ? I've got one, perfect condition, in France. You can PM me ;)
The worlds first bike was invented in India 2000 years ago. Swamy Shiva temple. Fact! Don't try to discredit this invention by making it euro centric
While I appreciated the look at these historical bikes, I would have preferred to have Mike from American Pickers narrate the tour. He's much more educated on old bikes and surely could have provided more insight.
Sure. Get Mike over.
Not even close. Cannings rules. 😁
You have glossed over so much history. Michaud and brass pedals? ORIGINAL! Women are supposed to be on bikes? Women were liberated by bikes - travel at speed without supervision! The early Benz's were German motors on British quadracycles. Roads were not built for cars! And you want bike tech? Suspension is a 19th century invention! There are masterpieces and oddities of innovative design and engineering from the 19ctry all around the room.
Time to man up and ride th-cam.com/video/IQkyuw9Sf9M/w-d-xo.html
Milk race bike
666 views huh?
First ! Haha