Adelaide's Bicycle Heritage

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A site for cataloging Adelaide's bicycle history.

Location: Adelaide
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Latest Activity: Jun 26

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viewing Cycle information on-line at NLA...

This may not be news to some, but I just stumbled on some references on the newspaper database of the National Library of Australia ( Canberra). From waht I can see the potential seems enormous ! Wha…

Tagged: history

Started by Bicycle Fish Jun 26.

Marshall 'Major' Taylor

Hi,There is a film about Major Taylor coming out. I think Travis posted about this forgotten cycling hero and his visit to Adelaide in the early 1900s.http://www.majorthemovie.com/ and there is a pre…

Tagged: history, Taylor, Major, Marshall

Started by Angus Kingston Jun 20.

"Twelve Bicycles for the Police Department", 1903 3 Replies

State Records of South Australia, Government Record Group 5/2 - File 369/1903 Police Commissioner's Office - "Twelve Bicycles for the Police Department, Requesting -" Attached is the specification…

Tagged: lob, specification, police commissioner's office, state records

Started by Travis Gottschutzke. Last reply by Bicycle Fish Jun 7.

Messrs Lob & Son, manufacturers of the "Lob Cycle" 3 Replies

The pain, or the pleasure, of historical research, depending on which way you look at it, is that one clue leads to another...one question answered results in another being raised. So, on the commute…

Tagged: nla, trove, rundle street, police, lob

Started by Travis Gottschutzke. Last reply by Bicycle Fish Jun 3.

Oppy Doco

Not really Adelaide cycling history but I just found that Radio National's doco on Hubert Opperman has been made available for download. Allez OppyDownload MP3

Started by Angus Kingston Apr 14.

Sourcing Bicycle History in Adelaide 1 Reply

I chanced on these illustrations in early 2008, while researching the history of our own suburb & street. I took most of them from a few microfilmed editions of the Advertiser for 1911, which you…

Started by Bicycle Fish. Last reply by Big Block Apr 9.

Lewis Cycle Works

Doing some fishing about today I came across this: The Lewis Project (by Leon Mitchell). A historical look at Lewis Cycle Works which was a motorcycle and bike manufacturer in Grenfell St starting a…

Tagged: works, cycle, Lewis, history

Started by Angus Kingston Dec. 21, 2009.

Ricardo bicycles 1 Reply

Most regular members of this community know I have a Ricardo Elite bicycle built in Adelaide. On Bicycles.net.au forums there is a discussion thread called: Ricardo Appreciation Society. Can anyon…

Tagged: history., adelaide, ricardo

Started by Angus Kingston. Last reply by Travis Gottschutzke Dec. 20, 2009.

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Comment by Angus Kingston on June 7, 2010 at 12:52pm: This is not Adelaide but Brisbane.

Bikes piled up outside the city library. (SLQLD archives)

Comment by Jeremy Miller on January 11, 2010 at 8:52am: Makes you realize just how many workers would have been commuting to work everyday by bicycles - similar story with school bicycle sheds that have all but vanished from the landscape (as have kids cycling to school) - comparatively that is!