In this man’s house, behind a sliding door that is activated by a security pin code, is the greatest cycling lair we’ve ever seen.
Slip past the break at your own risk…
Once the correct pin is entered, the sliding door opens to reveal…
This beautiful collection.
Filled with magazines, a collection of mint vintage parts, and frames.
But wait wait, there’s so much more…
Cue the angels singing hallelujah.
@Mat
Send me an email at Saris@BikeRumor.com in 12 months. We’d love to feature what you have in the works!
I was waiting for someone to comment on the “backwards” fork. Kevin, that is actually what is called a stayer bike. The fork is like that so that a rider can get closer to the motorcycle its pacing behind. They’re not well known outside the velodrome but due to how close they follow behind the motorcycle, there is a roller on the back of the motorcycle for the stayer’s front wheel to spin incase contact is made.
Kevin and pete:
Maybe those are just extra rare stayer bikes for derny racing?
Amazing. If it were me, however, I’d have a giant metal door that slides open–once the security code is entered–to reveal a massive room with bikes, a repair station, a gigundo TV for indoor trainer sessions, several beers on tap at the bar, and cardboard cutouts of Victoria Pendleton everywhere.
@jackluke and @satisFACTORYrider
This is great. Here is a person keeping a cache of history, and not letting fixie riders destroy it.
Also note the vinyl Smurfs from Germany, vinyl Bruce Lee figurines, and die-cut Iron Man. Obviously this person is a collector. Think of it the same way as you would a records keeper or a historian. Plenty of bikes from the makers and eras represented have died on the road or rusted away. Thank goodness someone put a few away.
@Kevin
Forks are turned that way to stop them toppling forward., and it allows them to be moved around pretty simply.
If you look at the blog, the guy is a surgeon who does volunteer reconstructive surgery for people in India with deformaties. I don’t have much issue if they don’t get ridden because he doesn’t have the time…
you could give them out to 40 teenage kids, without the money to buy their own road worthy bike, that would be cool. this is just boring. look at all those things meant to be fast, stapled to a wall, lined up in rows of potential energy just waiting for entropy to turn this room into something amazing. this is my aunt’s couch under uncomfortable plastic, but it’s clean.
i’d prefer Ah Joo’s garage anytime.
The forks are not backwards….. those are “Stayer” frames. (designed to motor pace VERY closely behind a motorcycle on the velodrome). And if a few people here and there didn’t “preserve” things from our past, history would be lost and we would have little to go on regarding how far we’ve come. Kudos to them for not just piling them up in their basement where they couldn’t be appreciated.
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I could hand out free hotdogs and $100 bills to some of these people and they would bitch about there being no mustard. If not that, tell me I used the wrong franks or buns.
I think the room is cool and I bet the dude really enjoys it. I think that is the point of bikes. Of course, I bet I’m “wrong”.
