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Vintage Cycling Websites (click to expand)
| Name | Type | Details |
| 'The Headbadge' - a classic & vintage bicycle resource | Enthusiast Website | The Headbadge specializes in vintage lightweight roadbikes and English 3-speeds. We host the most extensive Raleigh serial database available on the internet. | |
| 43bikes Collection by "Mookie" | Enthusiast Website | Well and humorously presented private collection of bicycles and with a splendid view on weight weenies. | |
| Bicycle Head Badge Flickr Group | Image Host | Over 1000 head badges and growing | |
| Bicycle Museum of America | Museam Collection | Claims to be the largest bicycle museum in the world. | |
| Bike Specialty | Shop Website | A collection of vintage bicycles to rent. Check out the photogallery. | |
| BikeForums.net Classic & Vintage | BikeForums.net | The Classic & Vintage section at BikeForums.net | |
| BMX old school | Enthusiast Website | An online database project for the BMX aficionados. | |
| Bulgier.net Bikes | Enthusiast Website | Bike Pictures, Poster, Catalog Scans, etc | |
| Classic Lightweights UK | Enthusiast Website | Devoted to classic UK and Italian Lightweights | |
| Classic Rendezvous | Classic Rendevous | Fantastic web resource for all things vintage up till 1984. | |
| Classic Vintage Bikes | Blog | Classic Vintage Bikes is a blog intended to share my passion and interest for the Italian classic bikes. | |
| Collection David Cooper | Enthusiast Website | Very nicely presented fine private collection of vintage mostly lightweight bicycles. | |
| Collection Embacher | Museam Collection | A well pictured presentation of the austrian Embacher collection. Only little information about most of the bikes. | |
| Collection Kjell Ahlqvist | Museam Collection | Swedish private collection of mostly french, italian, japanese and swedish bikes. Some articles in english, otherwise swedish only. | |
| Component Dating at Vintage Trek | Enthusiast Website | A good list of information about how to date components and thus the bike | |
| Component Overview by Tilmun | Museam Collection | Listing of components by categories with declarations of sizes, weights and year. | |
| CycleBase | Enthusiast Website | Great database of bicycle racing teams both past and present. | |
| Cycling Hall of Fame | Events | Cycling Hall of Fame.com is dedicated to preserving the history of cycling's greatest races and the riders who rode them. | |
| Dave's Vintage Bicycles | Enthusiast Website | Specializing in pre-1940 Ballooners and more. | |
| Derailleur Collection by Arnfried Schmitz | Museam Collection | A well pictured site of a derailleur collection, many items of non-standard makes. | |
| Disraeli Gears | Enthusiast Website | A great and comprehensive resource of derailleurs, nicely presented and with many very rare items | |
| Dutch vintage bicycles | N/A | Besides the Velorama museum the address for dutch brands. The core is the database of manufacturers and bicycle registry. Partly in english language. | |
| EBykr | N/A | Community built blog type reference on vintage cycling. | |
| Fanatico de lo clasico | N/A | Classic Bikes in Argentina | |
| Historische Fahrraeder | N/A | Site of the German vintage bicycle association. German language only. | |
| Horton Collection | N/A | Superbe collection of posters and other cycling memorabilia. | |
| International cycling history confernce | Events | Site of the annual professional bicycling history event. | |
| Italian classic bikes | N/A | Private collection of vintage italian racing bikes. German language. | |
| IVCA | N/A | The International Veteran Cycle Association (IVCA) is an association of organizations and individuals interested in vintage bicycles: riding, collecting, restoration, history and their role in society. | |
| Mombat MTB history | N/A | Very informative and well structured site about the Mountain Bike's history. Many photographs of bikes and components. | |
| Old School Bicycles | N/A | Site with some very good photographs of mostly british and french lightweight bicycles. | |
| Oldroads | N/A | A great resource for vintage cycling information of all sorts | |
| Pedaling History Bicycle Museum | Museam Collection | Pedaling History features one of the world's largest collections of antique and classic American bicycles, including thousands of items of cycling-related memorabilia. | |
| Radklassiker.org | N/A | german website dedicated to the vintage lightweight, contains all entrants and winners of the "Classic bike of the month" contest held in http://forum.tour-magazin.de/forumdisplay.php?f=34 | |
| Ray Dobbins Photo Gallery | N/A | A great resource by collector Ray Dobbins -- restoration tips and fantastic photos of vintage Italian racing bicycles in his collection. | |
| SheldonBrown.com | Sheldon Brown | The Website about ALL things Cycling. | |
| Speedbicycles | Museam Collection | An amazing virtual museum started by Stefan Schaefter and continued by Speedbicycles Gmbh (Basel, Switzerland)...drool-worthy photographs of hundreds of vintage racing bicycles from dozens of manufacturers. | |
| Speedplay Pedal Museum | Museam Collection | A great timeline of pedal development through the years. | |
| The Bicycle Info Project | N/A | EquusBicycle Project: Lots of old Catalog Scans on this site. Great Content. | |
| The Bicycle Trader | N/A | Cycling Classifieds Forum | |
| The Custom Bicycle | N/A | "Buying, setting up and riding the quality bicycle", 1979, 276 sites about vintage racing frames, frame builders, bicycle setup. Nice book! | |
| The Paterek Manual For Bicycle Framebuilders | N/A | Very detailed framebuilder's manual, tube set comparison tables, etc. 434 interesting sites. | |
| The Racing Bicycle | N/A | Chronicaling the development of racing bicycles since the early 1900s | |
| Tonton Vélo | N/A | A good initial site to find information about vintage french bicycle brands. French and english language. | |
| VAR Bicycle Tool Catalogue | Sheldon Brown | Historical VAR Tool Catalogue on SheldonBrown.com | |
| Velorama museum | Museam Collection | Site of Jan Moed's dutch museum which is due to its gorgeous collection of bicycles and books, catalogues etc. (they are keeping Gazelle's archive!) the first address not only for dutch bicycles. | |
| VeloStuf | N/A | Vintage Racing Bikes and Parts | |
| Velosvintage | Blog | French blog about vintage racing bicycles. | |
| VeloVault | N/A | A Collection of Cycling Nostalgia | |
| Veteran Cycle Club | N/A | The oldest vintage bicycle association, exemplary not only for their marque enthusiasts and their huge bibliography. Partly for members only. | |
| Wooljersey Photo Gallery | Image Host | Massive photo gallery of vintage bicycles, parts, and more. | |
Brand Specific Websites (click to expand)
| Name | Type | Details |
| 80's SunTour Catalogs | Shop Website | Hosted by YellowJersey.org |  |
| Alex Singer | Company Website | Official site of the legendary bicycle builder from france with a look on his history and bicycle models. French language only. | |
| Bendix bicycle hub service | N/A | Tom Findley's page on Bendix hubs. | |
| Bianchi | N/A | Even if in japanese there are lots of pictures of bicycles, catalogues and other items. | |
| Bob Jackson | N/A | Brief history of the still existing (and flame-keeping) british builder. | |
| Brooks Archives | Manufacture Website | Tons of information about Brooks Saddles | |
| Campagnolo collection | Enthusiast Website | Lots of good pictures with japanese description. | |
| Campagnolo collection II | Enthusiast Website | Yes, it's another all-japanese collection, but have a look at these pics! | |
| Campagnolo Timeline | N/A | A detailed timeline chronicling the history of the company as well as dates of various component groups. | |
| Campy Only! | N/A | News, information, and more on Campagnolo new and old | |
| Campybike | N/A | An overwiew of most of the Campagnolo catalogues, to get inside them an DVD is offered. | |
| Centurion Bicycles by Ashley Wright | N/A | Centurion Specific article on SheldonBrown.com | |
| Cinelli bars and stems | N/A | A good presentation of Cinelli bars and stems with overview schedule and lots of photographs. | |
| Cinelli Frame Registry | N/A | Listing of Cinelli serial numbers, dates, and additional information | |
| Cinelli only | Enthusiast Website | Cinelli-dedicated Blog by Angelo Senza | |
| Classic Fuji Bicycles | N/A | History, Catalogs, Serial Number ID and more | |
| Classic Miyata Catalogs | N/A | Miyata Catalog Scans | |
| Colner | N/A | Bicycles From Argentina | |
| CR's Peugoet PX10 History | N/A | Peugeot's classic lugged and brazed performance bicycles, specifically the PX10 | |
| Cycles Peugeot | N/A | Good timeline of the brand as well as other information | |
| Cycles Retro Peugeot | Enthusiast Website | Peugeot Catalogs from 1929 - 1989 | |
| Diamant racing bicycles | Enthusiast Website | A lot of information, pictures, catalogues and parts (i.e. rare derailleurs) about Diamant racing bicycles from the GDR-era. German language only. | |
| Duret Géliano | N/A | Some information about the history of the french make Duret and their second brand Géliano | |
| Dursley-Pedersen | N/A | A very well researched and informative site about Dursley-Pedersen bicycles. | |
| Ebykr article on Alex Singer | N/A | Informative write up on the history of Alex Singer | |
| GitaneUSA.com | N/A | Gitane History, Catalogs, etc. | |
| Harry Quinn on Classic Rendezvous | Classic Rendevous | | |
| Hetchins | Enthusiast Website | Fine crafted frames, ser. no. catalog | |
| Holdsworth, Claud Butler and F.H. Grubb | N/A | Detailed information about these british manufacturers: models, catalogues, frame no. | |
| Jack Taylor | Enthusiast Website | Definitely THE site for the Jack-Taylor-enthusiast: Models, Serial No., Catalogues, Transfers and well researched information about the british brotherhood. | |
| Masi by Bob Hovey | N/A | Covers italian as well as american Masis. Very well structured site with Masi registry, catalogues, bikes, links and so on. | |
| Mavic Timeline | N/A | Timeline including the development of the company, racing involvement, and various product introductions. | |
| Mercian | N/A | Official site of the still ongoing business with a brief history and catalogue scans. | |
| Mercian Cycles Register | N/A | Research into pre-1970s Mercians | |
| Panasonic Bicycles Virtual Museam | N/A | Fantastic resource for Panasonic bicycles of the 70's through 90's | |
| Privitera Frame Builder | N/A | Frames from Argentina | |
| Raleigh 1975-'99 | N/A | Even if this article from Tony Hadland focuses on the years from 1975 to 1999 it also gives further information. | |
| Raleigh Chopper | N/A | Nothing else than Raleigh Choppers! Lots of pictures. | |
| René Herse | N/A | Very informative and well structured site about René Herse Cycles and some other makes. French language only. | |
| Retro Raleighs | N/A | Specific to Raleighs | |
| Schwinn Catalogs 1980-1990 | N/A | Schwinn Specific website of catalogs from 1890s-2000 | |
| Schwinn Heritage | N/A | Schwinn Heritage forums, classifieds and more | |
| Schwinn Lightweight Data Book | N/A | Schwinn Lightweight Specific information up through around 1980 | |
| Schwinn Paramount Registry | N/A | Registry of early Schwinn Paramounts up till 1960 | |
| Sekine Cycles History | N/A | CANADIAN & VINTAGE LIGHTWEIGHT BICYCLE | |
| Shimano and Suntour | N/A | Reference photographs from Shimano and Suntour components from the early 1990ies. German and english description. | |
| Simplex collection | N/A | Collection of Simplex parts, well photographed, with japanese descriptions. | |
| Specialites T.A. components and accessories | N/A | TA Fan site on blackbirdsf.org | |
| Sturmey Archer Heritage | N/A | Amazing list of documents and history of S.A. hubs. | |
| Sunset for SunTour | N/A | SunTour history from rise to fall | |
| Suntour Bicycle Componentry | N/A | Photographs of various Suntour components | |
| The Evolution of Brooks Saddle Badges | N/A | Describing the changes to the Brooks badge over the course of history | |
| The Gazelle Pages | N/A | Information in helping ID Gazelle frames. | |
| Tutto Campy Bici | N/A | All things Campagnolo: old and new | |
| Umberto Dei on blackbirdsf.org | N/A | Details and photos of the brand and bikes | |
| Umberto Dei on Classic Rendevous | N/A | Translation of the history of Umberto Dei | |
| Vintage Cannondale | N/A | unoffical vintage cannondale website. | |
| Vintage-Trek | N/A | Trek Specific - has dating codes for many old components | |
| Vitus History by Norris Lockley | Classic Rendevous | History of Vitus and Ateliers de la Rive | |
General Cycling Websites (click to expand)
Local Bike Shops (click to expand)
| Name | Type | Details |
| A Bicycycle Odyssey | N/A | 1417 Bridgeway ,Sausalito,Ca 415-332-3050 inventory of Ron Cooper frames and others | |
| A-1 Bicycles | N/A | A-1 Bicycles located at 10211 Manchester in Kirkwood (St Louis), MO. | |
| American Cyclery | N/A | 510 Frederick st,San Francisco 415-664-45Vintage parts45 old time shop with some inventory of | |
| Around Town Bicycles | N/A | Located at: Rear 59 N. Main Street • Wilkes-Barre, PA. 18701 | |
| Bicycle Exchange | N/A | Located in Historic Downtown Carrollton (suburb of Dallas), TX. Many vintage parts and bicycles. | |
| Cafe de Velo | N/A | Online provider of Vintage NOS parts. | |
| CONTINENTAL COMPONENTS (campyoldy.com) | N/A | Possibly one of the largest stocks of pre-1997 vintage Campagnolo and classic equipment | |
| Cupertino Bike Shop | N/A | Located in San Jose, CA. Mostly dealing in newer stuff now but still has beautiful Italian bikes and frames from the 70's. Older campy parts, vintage jerseys and shoes, and more stuff than I could list here. | |
| Cycles de Oro | N/A | Owned by Dale Brown, located at 1410 Mill Street, Greensboro, North Carolina 27408 | |
| Gorilla Bicycles | N/A | Website for German eBay user Mozzy66 | |
| Granfondo Cycling Products | N/A | Dutch eBay seller and online shop. | |
| Harris Cyclery | N/A | Home shop of Sheldon Brown. 1353 Washington Street, West Newton, Massachusetts 02465 | |
| Richardson Bikemart | N/A | Large bikeshop in Richardson, Texas. Willingly works on vintage bikes and has some older components and parts | |
| Shaws Lightweight Cycles | N/A | 45 Washington st ,Santa Clara Ca 408-246-7881 | |
| Velo Sport | N/A | 1615 University ave,Berkeley,CA 510-849-0437 once a source for Masi,Colnago ,Bianchi and Raleigh plus lots more. Now just a modern bike store | |
| Velo-Orange | N/A | Extensive online store front as well as show room in Annapolis MD. Carries many hard to find vintage parts | |
| Via Bicycle | N/A | Philadelphia, shop buys & sells Used bicycles, website is an invaluable source for rare and vintage parts and Information. | |
| Wallingford Bicycle Parts | N/A | Specalizes in Brooks Saddles | |
| Yellow Jersey Ltd | N/A | Internet sales and store location at 419 State Street, Madison, WI 53703 | |
Vintage Friendly Bike Shops (click to expand)
| Name | Type | Details |
| Bicloune | N/A | Located in Paris, France, worth a visit. | |
| Bicycle Classics | N/A | Online shop with huge offer of vintage components | |
| Bike-Vintage | N/A | Online shop for vintage frames and parts | |
| Cicli Berlinetta | N/A | Located in Berlin, Germany, has always vintage bikes, frames and components to offer | |
| Cicli Passione | N/A | Online shop with offer of vintage components | |
| John's Vintage Bicycles | N/A | Based in Boulder, Colorado, this shop specializes in roadsters, vintage balloon-tired bikes and a variety of other vintage goodies. Great photo collection, too! | |
| Mario's Bike Shop - defietsenmaker.nl | Shop Website | 30 years experience in race and normal bicycles and for the last few
years also specialised in vintage parts. | |
| Matuzmaster | N/A | Hungarian online shop with focus on 1980s to 1990s parts and bicycles. No prices quoted, you have to ask. Mostly parts in english language, besides hungarian, swedish, japanese and rumanian. | |
| The Bici | N/A | Online shop specializing in vintage gear | |
| Velo Cult | N/A | Located in San Diego, CA, they also have an online shop with very well presented vintage frames and bicycles. | |
| Velo Mine | Shop Website | There is always an offer of vintage bicycles, frames and components | |
| Yellow Jersey, Ltd. | N/A | Owner, Andrew Muzi - great source for vintage bike support, frame repair, paint, etc. | |
Painting & Frame Restoration (click to expand)
| Name | Type | Details |
| Brooker Enterprises | N/A | Powder Coating of many different items including bicycle frames. Located in Portland, OR | |
| Chester Cycles | N/A | Duane does some really fantastic unquie work. Certainly worth considering. | |
| CyclArt | N/A | Restoration, custom painting, leather craft, decal application. Located in Vista, CA | |
| Ed Litton Cycles | N/A | Frame builder,Painter and restoration specialist | |
| Franklin Frame | N/A | Frame builder and painter. Top notch work. Located in Ohio. Very reasonable prices. | |
| H LLOYD CYCLES | N/A | Reproduction and some Original frame decals / transfers | |
| Joe Bell Bicycle Refinishing | N/A | Painting, Refinishing and Frame Repair. Located Spring Valley, CA. | |
| Southwest Frameworks | Shop Website | David Cheakas of Southwest Frameworks custom builds frames, will do repairs and painting work. Located in Dallas, TX. | |
| Spectrum Powder Works | N/A | Specalizing in Powder Coat, located in Colorado Springs, CO | |
| Transfers reproduction | N/A | Not being cheap they have besides car and motorbike brands some rare bicycling transfers, mostly german makes, but i.e. also Reynolds 531. Description in german, but order is possible in english. | |
Other Sites of Interest (click to expand)
| Name | Type | Details |
| Bike Race Info | N/A | Current and historical race results, plus interviews, bikes and cycling history. | |
| Gipiemme - Gruppi Completi e Componenti | Image Host | Photographs of various Gipiemme components | |
| Harlequin wraped bars - Wastedlife.org | Enthusiast Website | There is an illustrated article of "how to wrap road bars with a harlequin pattern" | |
| Historic results of cycling races | N/A | List of results of the most important cycling races such as world cups, Olympic Games, TdF, Giro, Vuelta and so on. | |
| Schuermann velodromes | N/A | Official site of the architects Schuermann, leading draughtsmen of velodromes. List of 150 velodromes with info about year of construction, track material. German and english language. | |
| Track cycling - early years | N/A | Well pictured site around german track cycling pioneer Clemens Schuermann. Partly english language. | |
| Velodrom Vigorelli | N/A | Official site of the legendary Vigorelli-Velodrom in Milan with many information (italian language only) and contemporary photographs. | |
| Wilms on wheels | N/A | Internet bibliography covering english, french, italian and german books about cycling. Lots of historical and vintage theme books are listed, different ways of researching possible. | |
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