* Vintage Bicycles - Restoration or Preservation *
I posted an article here yesterday about a Humber 1925 British bicycle which was quite lovingly maintained. The blog post was quite neat, great photos, a well cared for bicycle.
And I spent sometime reading other posts in the same site; he has many, many nice pages with some incredibly nice bicycles, including René Herse models from the 1930's to the 1980's.
I enjoyed the articles, he frequently mentions his views on how we should handle those, which are really precious cultural artifacts (his Herse bikes are Constructeur, hand built frames and bicycles, pinacle of the art).
There's one post in particular that explains his approach to this -- Preservation is the way to go, and I liked it a lot.
I hate the Trailler Queen type of thing we see sometiems in car or bicycle Vintage shows, where something is polished to hell and painted with modern finishes that have much higher gloss than the originals. Turning into something that in fact, never existed. Demented, imo.
Recommended reading for anyone interested in #cycling, #vintage, #Randonneur bikes and cultural preservation policies.
Deserving of #QotoJournal mention as well.
