$24,000 original tall bike
03-06-09, 06:54 PM
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$24,000 original tall bike
pretty fascinating, honestly, i wonder if this is how the idea of a "tall bike" came to be?
https://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot...p?lot_id=39WT8
https://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot...p?lot_id=39WT8
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Giraffe Lamplighter's Bicycle, 1898
The seat height of this unusually tall bicycle is over 7' tall, and this feature directly relates to the bicycle's important function. During the late nineteenth century it was used by lamplighters to light gas street lamps. The inordinately long chain is more than three times the length of a conventional bicycle chain. Currently only one other lamplighter bicycle is know to exist, designed and manufactured by a different maker. This original bicycle features black paint, wood rims, 28" single-tube tires and is correctly restored.
Giraffe Lamplighter's Bicycle, 1898
The seat height of this unusually tall bicycle is over 7' tall, and this feature directly relates to the bicycle's important function. During the late nineteenth century it was used by lamplighters to light gas street lamps. The inordinately long chain is more than three times the length of a conventional bicycle chain. Currently only one other lamplighter bicycle is know to exist, designed and manufactured by a different maker. This original bicycle features black paint, wood rims, 28" single-tube tires and is correctly restored.
03-06-09, 07:05 PM
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03-17-09, 12:50 PM
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It is an antique, almost one of a kind. That is why the high price...people go goo-goo over antiques. I would not pay that price either.
03-18-09, 08:33 AM
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And it's a fixie!
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Wow thanks for the post. It's cool to browse the lots and see how much other things went for, too.
05-24-09, 07:19 PM
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...neat on the history... guy I knew in HS made them... he'd take 3 or 4 20" frames and weld them together... cops pulled him over a few times for some reason or other...
06-08-09, 10:41 AM
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