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riders, racing, pacing

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Major Taylor on his Orient 1:30 - the Orient Racers had purple rims.

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Here are a couple of Spanish 'Stayers' that are in a friends collection, not antique but vintage definitely......
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I helped some friends recently with putting on a display of vintage and antique bicycles at Velodrom Illes Balears and Jordi kindly put these on display. Fascinating machines, I can barely imagine the adrenaline rush you'd get riding one of these at speed behind a big motor pacer.
I notice one has the Spanish flag, and the other has world champion stripes!
I got to ride Jaume's Circa 1910 ABC (Antonio Bibilioni Col of Palma, Mallorca) track bike for a few laps at the same event, boy was I happy.....
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More racers please!
 
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