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Me with my 1909 Racycle.

Carlton, one of these may help with your sale...

Yes they are coming along. I have just been super-fine tuning the original for the mould by eliminating the cracks and imperfections. I'll be making another mould based on my perfected grip to use for the final mould, then I can just start making them without any further modifications.

I have a 1910 catalogue which shows these grips....

Nope I just pushed, jumped on and started pedaling. Did a couple laps of the driveway. It was only when I stopped pedaling that I wiped out, didn't know about the coaster brake part... yet. Do you remember your first time riding.... a bike?

So I just found this page in a photo album at my folks house here in Southern California, and it brought back great memories. It was my first solo ride. I think I was about 8 years old and while my folks were saying so long to my grandma at the end of the driveway, I went and grabbed up...

Two more pairs of the moldable rubber grips are done, but I do not like the parting line being still visible, so we're going to re-make the mold and do some slight modifications. Coming along though.

Hi Mike, That was a very nice pair of Racycles you got for sure. You wanted a rare(er) Racycle and you certainly got both of them, congratulations! That narrow tread is a very nice bike! ... especially the chain. Cool that seeing my stuff inspired you. Sometimes I feel its all too...

Is this where I pm you?

Funny you should say that because I just sold one to the Oldfield Bar here in Los Angeles dedicated to Barney Oldfield. He and Fred Titus founded the Racycle race team in 1898 so my original paint 1899 Narrow Tread Racycle is going to be hung behind the bar with a B&W enlarged photo of Barney on...

Sadly, I am 4 head badges short for the bikes I got up there. Any "laying" around??

Hi Marie, Thanks for the kind words. Glad to hear you got some help on your black bike too!

Thanks. I am still trying to catch up with it all.... and I still need to find head baaaaddggess!

Thanks for the compliment Patric! Less prose and more bikes I was told... Actually, your thumbnail photo is very mysterious and beautiful to me.

Thanks and yes, Lawrence and I have discussed how I cant take the Racycles with me, but the grave can be dug bigger!

Yeah Bud might be "on" to something, like a large chainring bike maybe... Thanks Chris. More cool stuff I think I need but really don't.

Thanks! I am still missing head badges and chains though, I do dig stuff up though, so I can usually help.

Hi Carlton, Your going to love this.... there was an orange frame which I thought of course would be a Flying Merkel but it did not share the same bottom bracket as the Miamis so I LEFT IT BEHIND! Hmmm, maybe that was a bad idea? I know Ward is looking for a badge. At the moment, I...

Hi Giovanni, Thats very funny. But you can still get a Black Shadow! Frank's daughter Moon picked me up for our prom on one.

Yeah I think/hope she was going to change out the seat the next day!

Thanks Bud, since you may know where they are, tell the new owner(s) that anyone who owns a Racycle can have one of those 1904 shirts I made. Hmm, Oregon... you are in Portland...

I have been collecting literature to make large framed posters to build a type of showroom eventually. 16 complete Pacemakers nearly all with correct components, this was the hard part- seats, suspension forks, chains, original tires, pedals- f **ing pedals. 6 Roadsters. 2 Factory Racers

Yeah Nick mine is still on the ground. Thats now how I clean up my leaves.

Racycle finds- they are still out there! 2nd photos photos part 2

No question that I'm dedicated to finding Racycles and building them, but this trip even surprised me. When I heard that there were not one, or two but 4 Racycles at an estate sale up in San Francisco, I dropped what I was doing and headed up to see and hopefully bid on them in person. My car...

Thanks. Not sure yet. The original one was high gloss, and I can cut and polish the hard eurathane ones to a nice luster, so I am leaning toward high gloss. When I try to sand and buff the rubber ones, it doesn't"t look so good.

A Grip-less Racycle is very sad. I need to get them just right and hopefully consistent. Soooooon.

Here are the first 3 (workable) pairs of experimental grips out of the mould. The mould only holds one grip, so it will be slow going. Working on both a hard sand-able eurathane, and a soft, plyable rubber. Problem is that the original Racycle catalogue says that the grips are rubber and yet...

The grip has the Racycle logo four times around the grip, two facing one direction and two facing the other.

Here are the first 3 (workable) pairs of experimental grips out of the mould. The mould only holds one grip, so it will be slow going. Working on both a hard sand-able eurathane, and a soft, plyable rubber. Problem is that the original Racycle catalogue says that the grips are rubber and...

The first two sets of grips... Here are the first two pairs of ( decent) grips out of the mould. The mould only holds one grip at a time, so it's slow going. I am now working out either hard sand-able eurathane or a more soft playable rubber. It will take a few more tries, but they will be In...

Those grips are being re-made as we speak.

the hits keep coming http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/bik/3790357197.html

Sure, I would like the Vitalic display. PM sent. Thanks Ward!

Anyone have any good ideas on how to stop collecting old bikes, besides the " run out of room" answer?

Well its $40,300 cheaper than this one on ebay ( including shipping of course )... http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Original-1960-Ben-Bowden-Spacelander-Retro-Bicycle-Bike-Blue-Classic-USA-/290777961832?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43b3b79568

I spy... drool on my keyboard. Lots.

Hmmm, so do I...

Hey Bud, I'd like the leftovers please.

I actually didn't really know anything about the photo except I wanted to see how much cool stuff, within the photo that people could point out. Chitown got the actual photograpic event pretty early on. I DO know that it was the 1913 Cross Country ride from New York to San Francisco, thats...

I just found this photo of what appears to be my same tires! Any idea what model bikes these are?

I Spy with my little eye... There are so many cool things in these couple photos, what do you notice? Hint: This is a ( another ) significant milestone in early cycling. 1. @ 1913 Iver Johnson bike

100+ year old Vitalic tires Just got these 100 + year old, "Vitalic" 28 inch single tube tires from Larmo63 and I ended up putting them on my original Paint 1899 Racycle and they look terrific. The tread pattern is so cool looking. Yah, these all white tires really dress up the bike, especially...

Bill's Kenmore is one of the most beautiful unrestored race bike I have seen. He and his bike were invited to show earlier this year at the Greystone Mansion's Concours in Beverly Hills. For a gathering of high end Concours Classic Cars, his Kenmore made quite a stir.

Me thinks thats how you sez it.

Pretty simple.... I am interested in anything Racycle or Miami Cycle and Manufacturing: - 1895 to @1915 - literature - bikes - parts - stories - badges - photos - serial numbers on one you may have to help with the dating process - whereabouts I can possibly help you if you...

Hmmm, I seem to remember the nick name Racycle "lowly roadster"

even cheaper if... at the bottom it reads... "A special price if you represent us in your town" Oh please pick San Fernando, California so I can get the poster for 15 cents!

1920 Lincoln girls bike. All original except bars? Rims are metal over wood. Original tires. Rare original glass rear fender reflector. Front mud flap. Drop stand clip. Some nice, faintly-visible, red pin striping. Includes the often missing chain guard. Seat is...