An amazing bike museum

[FrankCrank]

Watched this the other day, well worth a look if you're into bike porn. Not just MTBs as the name suggests, but something for all regards bike history/development


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2_WUTBprhs


One thing I'd like to clarify. People like Ritchey say they were the first to do mountain biking, but no, it was me and my old school mates.
We'd go down the local tip and ride down slopes with our modified clunkers, cowhorn bars and all that stuff.

If Ritchey came over our way, I'd say 'Oi, Lionel, stick to making pop records, and leave the MTB stuff to us'

Anyways, enjoy the vid.

 

[Time Waster]

There is a bike shop in Carnforth (used to be a Raleigh dealership). The old guy who owns it (still I think) kept a little bike museum under the shop. If you google the bike shop (also a car parts shop) then perhaps he still has it. Ir you are into Raleigh bikes of old then it is a good display, if he still has it. There are rarities such as IIRC the golden 100 years celebration bike. Apparently Raleigh made 100 of them on its centenary and gave them to their biggest and favourite dealers. This guy got one that way and they simply do not come on the market so you are not likely to see one other than in the shop.

 

[Time Waster]

BTW a former mate was living in California when mountain biking started out there. He got one and imported it with his property when he moved back to the uk with his family as a kid. It was probably one of the first US made early MTBs to make it to the UK. It was literally right at the beginning and one of the first commercial mountain bike brands and models!!

 

[Hover Fly]

There is a bike shop in Carnforth (used to be a Raleigh dealership). The old guy who owns it (still I think) kept a little bike museum under the shop. If you google the bike shop (also a car parts shop) then perhaps he still has it. Ir you are into Raleigh bikes of old then it is a good display, if he still has it. There are rarities such as IIRC the golden 100 years celebration bike. Apparently Raleigh made 100 of them on its centenary and gave them to their biggest and favourite dealers. This guy got one that way and they simply do not come on the market so you are not likely to see one other than in the shop.

Dynostart? T’was being refurbished last time I past.

 

[ren531]

There is a bike shop in Carnforth (used to be a Raleigh dealership). The old guy who owns it (still I think) kept a little bike museum under the shop. If you google the bike shop (also a car parts shop) then perhaps he still has it. Ir you are into Raleigh bikes of old then it is a good display, if he still has it. There are rarities such as IIRC the golden 100 years celebration bike. Apparently Raleigh made 100 of them on its centenary and gave them to their biggest and favourite dealers. This guy got one that way and they simply do not come on the market so you are not likely to see one other than in the shop.

I've called in to Dynostart a couple of times last year and enquired about the bicycle museum which I have looked around in the past and they still have the collection but now no longer the space to display it unfortunately.

 

[MontyVeda]

Dyno-start is one of those shops whose frontage has not changed in decades ever! (apart from an occasional lick of blue paint)
I got my 1st 'racer' from there, a 10 speed Sun Solo in about 1981

 

[Time Waster]

It changed a lot about 5 or 6 years ago when it downsized into just one side. Used to be bikes in the current shop and cars in the other side that they let go. That door on the right used to be the way in as the door on the left was locked and had a display stand behind it. The museum used to be in the basement underneath both shops. At one point it used to be upstairs too IIRC.

 

[ren531]

Dyno-start is one of those shops whose frontage has not changed in decades ever! (apart from an occasional lick of blue paint)
I got my 1st 'racer' from there, a 10 speed Sun Solo in about 1981

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I also bought a Sun Solo from Dynostart in 1985 and in 1997 I got my brilliant Raleigh Ranndoneur from them too .