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By: Acme
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Chicago, Acme: 1945
Edition: Original
Seller ID: 1218
Condition: Very Good
“Ted Smith … Bicycle Champion” Press Photo. Chicago: Acme Newspictures, Inc., 20 Aug., 1945. Press photo, 15.4cm by 20.3cm. Very good with some light scratches and a remnant of some paper in the lower margin. Agency stamps, wax pencil and caption glued on verso: “Champion Amateur Cyclist. CHICAGO – Ted Smith, 17, of Buffalo, N.Y., Cycling Club, who won senior men’s title in national Amateur Bicycle championships under auspices of Amateur Bicycle League of America in renewal of events after 4-yr. lapse because of the war.” From the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame, of which Smith... View more info
By: Acme
Price: $40.00
Publisher: np, Acme: 1937
Edition: Original
Seller ID: 1221
Condition: Very Good
At Nutley N.J. … Six Day Race Training” Press Photo. Np: Acme/N.E.A., 26 Feb., 1937. Press photo, 23cm by 17.7cm. Very good aside from three small tears along the top edge. Stamps, pencil notes and caption on verso: “At Nutley N.J. / Bike riders training for the coming Six Day Race which will start at the garden Sunday night. / Shows, rounding the corner as the riders do a little road work at Nutley, N.J., LTR, Martin Journey, Willie Grimm, Russell Allen, and [certainly the most well-known in this image] Tino Reboli.” View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Malvern, Spare Tyre Publications: 1994
Edition: First edition
Seller ID: 782
Condition: Near Fine
Malvern: Spare Tyre Publications, 1994. First edition. Near Fine. Malvern: Spare Tyre Publications, 1994. First edition. Near Fine. Austin, Mike; Mel Platt. Bike Bike: London to Peking, A Bicycle Odyssey. Malvern, Worcestershire: Spare Tyre Publications, 1994. Spiral-bound, 5 by 10-inches, complete set of seventeen detachable postcards plus back cover. Each card is accompanied by a smaller version of the same image and a brief description of the location. Minor wear to the covers and corners with a price label in Yen on the back cover with a tiny spot of skinning next to the label. ... View more info
![Image for Paris-Roubaix: A Journey Through Hell [Bicycle Racing]](/assets/images/product/3017_1)
By: Bouvet, Philippe; Pierre Callewaert; Jean-Luc Gatellier; Serge Laget
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Boulder, CO, VeloPress: 2007
Edition: later printing
Seller ID: 3017
Condition: Near Fine
Hardcover with dust jacket, black cloth with silver spine and cover titles, 26 by 32.5 cm, 223 [1] pp., color and black and white illus. Near fine with some minor softening at the head and tail of the spine in a near fine jacket. Heavily illustrated with stunning photographs. From the publisher: “Paris-Roubaix, aka ‘The Hell of the North,’ has enough cobbles to shake bikes and bones to bits, and enough bad weather to make it treacherous even for the best professional cyclists. Held every April since 1896, the race follows a 270-kilometer course between the suburbs of the French capita... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Chicago, Central Press Assoc.: 1948
Edition: Original
Seller ID: 1216
Condition: Near Fine
Mike Abt Press Photo. Chicago: Central Press Association, 8 Jan., 1948, photo taken by T. Kaitila. Press photo, 20.7cm by 25.4cm. Very good with light creases and corner bumping. One of the agency stamps on verso can be faintly seen on the front side. No caption, simply reads “Mike Abt / Chicago” on verso with a couple of stamps. A stunning cropped image of Abt, a champion six-day racer from Chicago. Throughout his career, Abt had teamed with Jules Audy, Bill Jacoby, and Gustav Kilian, among others, with mixed results. While still staged in Europe, Six-Days, a form of six day/twenty... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Milwaukee, Wisconsin Cycling: 1977
Edition: Original
Seller ID: 1212
Condition: Very Good +
Deuerlein, Ed, ed. Wisconsin Cycling Volume 3 Number 10. Milwaukee: Wisconsin Cycling, Vol. 3, No. 10, Nov.-Dec. 1977. Staple-bound wraps, 21.5cm by 27.4cm, 24 pp. Very good with highlighting and mailing label (see below). The cover of this issue features Leroy “The Tyger” Johnson running, with bike shouldered, in a cyclo-cross race - a sport that predated mountain biking by several decades. This is a classic image of a classic ‘cross rig; single chainring with guard, bar-end shifters, drilled plastic saddle, cantilever brakes… Tyger Johnson won the 1963, 1966 and 1967 National C... View more info
By: Eddy Merckx, Keystone Press Agency
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Paris/New York, Keystone: c.1971
Edition: Original
Seller ID: 1215
Condition: Near Fine
Three Eddy Merckx Press Photos. Paris: Keystone Press Agency (all three are overstamped Keystone New York), nd [c.1971]. All the images are near fine with French captions and agency stamps on the versos, approx. 18cm by 24cm. Three unusual off-the-bike press photos of Merckx. Included are: “La Prudence D’Eddy Merckx…,” showing Eddy with his doctor discussing his back issues (resulting from a 1969 crash at the Blois Velodrome); “Quand le Champion Célèbre le ‘Chapitre de Trois Glorieuses…,’” showing Eddy at a celebratory dinner; and “Le Retour du Champion…,” Eddy, ... View more info
By: Keystone
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Paris, Keystone: 1981
Edition: Original
Seller ID: 1217
Condition: Near Fine
“Tour de France – Victorie de Bernard Hinault” Press Photo. Paris/New York: Keystone Press Agency, 19 July, 1981. Press photo, 21.5cm by 16.5cm. Near fine with agency stamps, notes and caption on verso: “Arrivee du Tour de France sur les Champs-Élysées: Victoire de Bernard Hinault..." A wonderful podium shot of (left-to-right) Freddy Maertens (points champion), Robert Alban (third place), Bernard Hinault (overall winner), Lucien Van Impe (second place and King of the Mountains), and Peter Winnen (“young rider” classification winner). The caption identifies “Bernard Zoetemel... View more info
By: Keystone
Price: $36.00
Publisher: London, Keystone: 1950
Edition: Original
Seller ID: 1219
Condition: Near Fine
“The Great Tour of Italy” Press Photo. London: Keystone Press Agency, June 6, 1950. Press photo, 20.7cm by 15.2cm. Near fine with caption taped on verso: “Competitors from all over Italy are taking part in the great annual cycle tour of the country. The mass ride through the streets of Milan – during the Tour of Italy.” This edition of the Giro d’Italia was won by Switzerland’s Hugo Koblet. View more info
By: Keystone
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Keystone: 1954
Edition: Original
Seller ID: 1220
Condition: Near Fine
“1954 World Bicycle Championships” Press Photo. New York: Keystone Press Agency, Sept. 1954. Press photo, 15cm by 20cm. Very good with light rippling, hand-written caption and agency stamps on verso. A nice view of the peloton at the UCI road championships that were held in Solingen, West Germany. Louison Bobet rode away with the title. The caption reads “1954 world bicycle championships. The 10 round 150 kilometer competition was held in a [sic] very bad weather. The competitors in the last run.” $30.00 View more info
By: Keystone
Price: $36.00
Publisher: Paris, Keystone: 1961
Edition: Original
Seller ID: 1222
Condition: Very Good
Le Belge Cerami Enleve Paris-Bruxelles” Press Photo. Paris: Keystone Press Agency (overstamped Keystone New York), nd [April 1961]. Press photo, 18cm by 24cm. Very good with a faint drip mark near the center of the image and a caption taped on the verso: “C’est un Belge, Pino Cerami, qui a gagné la classique course sur route Paris-Bruxelles. Pino Cerami après sa victoire.” Cerami, a naturalized Belgian, won the 1961 Paris-Brussels (now called the Brussels Cycling Classic), as well as the 1960 Paris-Roubaix and Flèche Wallone. The Gran Prix Pino Cerami has been run as a profess... View more info
![Image for On The Wheel: Magazine for the Classic Cyclist, December/January 1999/2000, No. 12 [Vintage Bicycle]](/assets/images/product/2318_904329b983b110974ae0298f4a626882.jpg)
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Sand Lake, MI, On The Wheel: Dec. 1999/Jan. 2000, no. 12
Seller ID: 2318
Condition: Near Fine
Staple-bound, glossy-wraps with newsprint leaves, 21 by 27.3 cm, 36 pp. (incld. covers), illus. Near fine, unread copy with only faint signs of shelf wear to the covers. The final issue of OTW, which started publishing in Feb. 1998. OTW was preceded by Konrad’s vintage bicycle zine AEoleus Butterfly, and was the predecessor of Bikelore and Bikelore 2. This issue includes articles on Raphael Geminiani Cycles, a reprint of The Recycling of Bikeman by Owen Edwards, part three of Charles Terront & Paris-Brest-Paris, Louison Bobet by Richard Yates, A Lone Wolf’s Tour de France by Brian Walk... View more info
![Image for On The Wheel: Magazine for the Classic Cyclist, October-November 1998, No. 5 [Vintage Bicycle]](/assets/images/product/2320_dcb931b1825d4dbc54e64bd78fd56cd8.jpg)
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Sand Lake, MI, On The Wheel: Oct.-Nov. 1998, no. 5
Seller ID: 2320
Condition: Near Fine
Staple-bound, glossy-wraps with newsprint leaves, 21 by 27.3 cm, 36 pp. (incld. covers), illus. Near fine, unread copy with only faint signs of shelf wear to the covers. The fifth issue of OTW, which started publishing in Feb. 1998. OTW was preceded by Konrad’s vintage bicycle zine AEoleus Butterfly, and was the predecessor of Bikelore and Bikelore 2. This issue includes Cycling’s Sepia Years by Richard Yates, The Ted Harper Memorial Old Time Bicycle races by Larry Strung, the 9th International Cycle History Conference (Ottawa) by Gabe Konrad, When Hell Freezes Over (cyclo-cross) by Ad... View more info
![Image for On The Wheel: Magazine for the Classic Cyclist, August-September 1998, No. 4 [Vintage Bicycle]](/assets/images/product/2319_963ac8e3b199ce253ceabca851fab551.jpg)
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Sand Lake, MI, On The Wheel: August-September 1998, No. 4
Seller ID: 2319
Condition: Near Fine
Staple-bound, glossy-wraps with newsprint leaves, 21 by 27.3 cm, 36 pp. (incld. covers), illus. Near fine, unread copy with only faint signs of shelf wear to the covers. The fourth issue of OTW, which started publishing in Feb. 1998. OTW was preceded by Konrad’s vintage bicycle zine AEoleus Butterfly, and was the predecessor of Bikelore and Bikelore 2. This issue includes an interview with Tony Hewson by Richard Yates, First Encounter: A North American Riding in Japan by Larry Strung, the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame, Places in my Head by Les Woodland, If the Bike were Any Greener… by ... View more info
By: Konrád, Gábor L. and Konrád, Melanie A., eds
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Sand Lake, Michigan, On The Wheel Publications: 2002
Edition: First edition
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 358
ISBN: 1892495384
Condition: New
Sand Lake, Michigan: On The Wheel Publications, 2002. First edition. New. Sand Lake, Michigan: On The Wheel Publications, 2002. First edition. New. Konrád, Gábor L. and Konrád, Melanie A., eds. Bikelore 2: The World of Wheels. Sand Lake, Michigan: On the Wheel Publications, 2002, limited edition of 600. Softcover, 6 by 9-inches, 175 pp. New, unread copy. SIGNED by co-editor Melanie Konrád and co-editor/contributor Gábor Konrád on the titlepage. Contents include: Part I: The Sport - King of the Pave, Gordon Daniels; Nineteen-forty-two, Richard Yates Mount Ventoux: The Olympus... View more info
![Image for Frank Patterson: The Early Years [Bicycle Cycling Art]](/assets/images/product/IMG_4107.JPG)
By: Patterson, Frank; [Janet Willis]
Price: $75.00
Publisher: [Birmingham], Janet Willis: 1996
Seller ID: 2509
Condition: Near Fine
Hardcover with dust jacket, 20.5 by 26.3 cm, [88] pp., illus. The hardcover is near fine with some faint yellowing around the edges of the textblock; the jacket is fair with light edge wear, chips, rubbing, a few tiny tears and light drip marks, and yellowing on the cover panel. An amazing collection of Patterson’s early bicycle and cycling illustrations – many of which are full-page. Patterson (1871-1952) was best known for his detailed and charming bicycle illustrations that depicted quaint scenes of the English countryside, with cyclists enjoying the narrow roads and pubs. A nostalg... View more info
By: Simplex
Price: $20.00
Publisher: NP, Simplex: c.1950
Edition: original
Seller ID: 1209
Condition: Good +
[Simplex] Simplex Cross-Commandes Installation Instructions. Np: Simplex, nd [c.1950s]. Single two-sided sheet, 20.9cm by 29.9cm. Light wrinkles and creases from being folded in eighths. Part numbers and instructions for installing the Simplex bar-end shifters, illustrated by the incomparable Daniel Rebour. (os) View more info
By: Walker, Brian
Price: $100.00
Edition: manuscript
Seller ID: 1210
Condition: Very Good +
Walker, Brian. A Series of Hand-Written Letters from Cycling Artist and Author Brian Walker. From the archive of On The Wheel magazine, a series of seven letters dated from January to September of 1999, comprising twenty pages of hand-written text. Five of the letters have the original envelopes. Walker, a well-known technical illustrator and children’s book illustrator, was also known for his drawings of bicycles, cyclo-touring scenes, and his touring stories, many of which appeared in the pages of Cycling (see item 1) and The C.T.C. Gazette. In these letters, Walker discusses, in a fl... View more info
By: Yates, Richard
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Argenton l'Eglise, 2000
Seller ID: 1211
Condition: Near Fine
Yates, Richard. A Series of Articles – Mostly Unpublished – on the Paris-Roubaix Cycling Classic. From the archives of On The Wheel Publications, a typed, signed letter from cycling historian and author Richard Yates, a Brit residing in France. Included is a one-page letter signed “Dick,” dated 15 April 2000, along with a ninety-seven page manuscript printed on a dot-matrix printer detailing the Paris-Roubaix—long considered the most grueling of the one-day classics—from 1896 to 1977. Three of the chapters were published in the first volume of Bikelore, but the rest remain unpu... View more info
