Vintagebikes

If you are lucky enough to own a bike that pre-dates cartridge bottom brackets, it would be referred to as an open cup and cone bottom bracket. This kind of bike has it. This is a lock ring,...

The last bearing we're going to talk about today is the bottom bracket bearing. On today's bicycles, most of them are a sealed mechanism that is unadjustable, if you detect play or...

What makes a bike a vintage bicycle? Well you ask three different collectors you're going to get three different answers. First of all a, let me talk about antique bicycles, the way we do it...

Most middleweight cycles came with some type of rack for carrying your books, for carrying groceries or whatever. But, the racks are getting smaller and a little less practical. Today, most bikes...

Going to talk for a moment about the saddles you'll find on a middleweight bicycle. Saddle is just a fancy name for seat, but saddle sounds better. They're generally going to be vinyl,...

There aren't a lot of companies, and there never were a lot of companies making bicycle trading cards, but we have a few examples of some. And they show some of the mistakes. People have made,...

I need to talk a bit about the lighting on a middleweight bicycle. Again, we just picked this bike up. I have not opened it up and I'm curious to see what it's like in here, what kind...

The most common style frame for a muscle bike is the cantilever frame. This is a great example of one. You'll notice the teardrop shape. It's compressed. It's pointed. Every...

I'm going to describe some of the key features about the frame of a middleweight bicycle. First thing you'll notice on the male style bikes is the cantilever frame, it's got...

Middleweight bikes came with a lot of accessories already built in. For example: in the tank you might find a light, like this, or some of them had a horn, or a bell, some even had a radio built into...