DIOCCUSA: Bikelopnik

"Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available" (whoistheleader2)
03/20/2020 at 19:37 • Filed to: DIOCCUSA, Old Car City USA, bikelopnik

I know nothing at all about bikes. However, I do have some entertaining pictures of some bikes rusting away !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

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This one has a really sleek lighting arrangement. That must have been a cool ride back in its glory days. I think those are exhausts hanging behind it.

Educate me, Oppo. What am I looking at here?

DISCUSSION (4)

Nom De Plume > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
03/20/2020 at 19:54

Appears to mostly be o ld department store bikes serving as art. Local hardware store’s used to do special orders of cool looking stuff like you see in some of the photos. Basically 70's or earlier low end bikes that were never very efficient or had very good gearing that made riding as enjoyable as it can be today.

Goggles Pizzano > Nom De Plume
03/20/2020 at 20:53

H undreds and hundreds f or a chance to cut that lot up for bits and bobs.

# lowrider

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Nom De Plume
03/20/2020 at 23:14

Pretty much what I expected, aside from the special order part. Considering the cool looking swoops, most of this had to be department store, right?

Nom De Plume > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
03/20/2020 at 23:28

I think you underestimate how few people lived near department stores and how fully that void was filled by either a grocery or hardware store. Both of which got a variety of unique goods that would amaze most people used to seeing the same things in every store. Hardware store owners would contract to have a bike model built specifically for their store. Of the Department stores Wards moved the most bikes.