VINTAGE BICYCLE PHOTOS

[camus]

 

[camus]

1987 Centurion Lhasa Kathmandu

 

[ingola]

@MattiThundrrr Pitt st

 

[MattiThundrrr]

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Check out the dude on the ratrod with the flipped bars, that's a Rambler, no?

 

[MattiThundrrr]

 

[camus]

In the eighties & nineties the cool kids of Germany rocked the playgrounds and the backyards with kettcars.

 

[ingola]

Check out the dude on the ratrod with the flipped bars, that's a Rambler, no?

Yes all three that's where the mall now stands

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Yes all three that's where the mall now stands

My favorite place

 

[Slow-Rider]

 

[SwissGuy]

In the eighties & nineties the cool kids of Germany rocked the playgrounds and the backyards with kettcars.

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In 70ties Switzerland as well!
I had an original Kettler in blue!

 

[camus]

Mine was red....

 

[Slow-Rider]

 

[SwissGuy]

New York 1976, by Barbara Alper/Getty Images

Sixdays Wembley 1936, by Derek Berwin/Hulton Archives/Getty Images

Geneva around 1940, by Photopress-Archiv/Keystone

Jacques Tati and his bike from the movie «Jour de fête» (1949). Robert Doisneau/GAMMA RAPHO
source of all images: https://www.republik.ch/2024/04/04/strassenkampf

 

[SwissGuy]

Inspired by the above post here a "moving vintage image". An all time classic from one of my favorite actors and directors Jacques Tati: Jour de fête


and Ecole des facteurs (School of Postmen):


If you want to see more check out this link:
https://archive.org/search?query=jacques+tati
I recommend "Traffic" and "Mon Oncle". Most of his movies work without any understanding of french, as Tati mostly used only sound, but no real words!