It's Friday, the sun is shining, the weekend is looming so it's time to take a break from worrying about Wiggo's knee, what Rapha are going to do with all those relaxed fit Wiggo Team Sky jerseys, kick back and think about how great bikes are.
To help you do just that here's a great little film about Australian bicycle collector, "James" who lives with his bicycle collection which includes everything from a Von Drais Hobby Horse and covers all the bases you'd want in a collection of seemingly every significant vintage bike design. He restores the bikes by hand, in his very cool workshop. Oh, and if you like old pick up trucks you're in for a treat too, although it doesn't look like James drives his much.
Anyway, enough prattle enjoy the film…
The Spokesman from dean saffron on Vimeo.

7 thoughts on “Video: Not news but worth watching… The Spokesman”
Loved this. Just finished a
Loved this. Just finished a 1966 Dawes racer rebuild……..much to everyones amusement. James describes my own experience perfectly
For my brothers and me, an
For my brothers and me, an endurance race was riding our BMX bikes 3 miles to the Civic Center for baseball and a swim, then back on a sunny afternoon. Freedom. http://dailytimetrial.blogspot.com/2013/02/28.html
Glorious.
Glorious.
THAT’S THE DREAM.
THAT’S THE DREAM.
Unfortunately my other dream involves staying married and having access to my kids, so compromises must be made.
I see he has one of those
I see he has one of those rare folding BSA paratrooper bikes. Very jealous. A mate let me ride his 1930’s sit up and beg with swepted back handlebar grips and solid brakes. It was lovely. The bicycle equivalent of driving an old Rolls Royce. You felt miles away from the front wheel and it was so smooth. He wouldn’t sell it or I’d be using it now around town.
I worry for James though. I can see him being bitten by whatever trap door spider lives in his pickup truck if not being able to see through the windscreen doesn’t get him first…. Nice film.
I grew up in Oz with a shed
I grew up in Oz with a shed full of bikes and bike bits. We never bought anything new, just recombined them. Hours and hours of fun.
Remember all my bikes but
Remember all my bikes but love the ones I ride at the moment (carbon & titanium) the best. For me nostalgia is best left in the past. Each to his (or her) own.