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Cyclists at Nørrebrogade in Copenhagen (1940-45)

from National Museum of Denmark

• S3W1N said:

  70 years ago!

• Nicola Colamaria said:

  La bicicletta non è una moda contemporanea!...

Cyclists prepared for a race: Miami, Florida

from Florida Memory

• clickykbd said:

  Note how forward curving and backward curving front forks must have been style choice that was 50/50 around this period! Weird.

• clickykbd said:

  2nd, 3rd, and 5th bike from the bottom appear to have a rear-curving aspect to their forks.

• kiwi_michael said:

  the so-called backwards curved forks are commonly found on stayers' bikes on the velodrome, that is, bikes designed to be motorpaced, (ridden behind a motorbike). In this massed start race (a Madison?) the forks would've allowed for really tight drafting off the other riders, but at the expense of handling. I'd imagine those rigs would've been bears to ride. But then look at the riders on the machines in question, not exactly skinny lightweights. American track cycling - the jazz age sport - was a game for tough professionals who could right tight and play hard.

Heading for Library Towers?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 12 older comments, and then…
• Ben Fagan said:

  Panhard 20hp with a visitor for the Gordon Bennett race and various motor car tours held by the Automotive Club over the week it ran, July 1903.

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Ben Fagan You think definitely July 1903 then?

• Ben Fagan said:

  National Library of Ireland on The Commons Definitely, at least one other photo taken from around the same position in the J.J. Clarke collection was attributed to the same time: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000168157 . Not to mention that the driver doesn't match any of the known early motorists of Ireland at this time. Also many came from as far as France to see the Race, which would explain the side panniers for holding tools etc - these were unusual at the time.

• beachcomber australia said:

  The driver reminds me of Mr Toad of Toad Hall, The Wind in the Willows - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Toad

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  Ben Fagan Huzzah! July 1903 it is then.