Moe Zhoost

Bicycle Heaven is a wonderful place to spend many hours. Room after room of old bikes.

alexihnen 

I've been there a couple times - it's small-ish, but you can spend a couple hours there.

Mr. Spadoni 

The Museum of Working Bikes in Fanno, Italy. Not bikes that are operational but bikes used by tradespeople, like barbers, knife sharpeners, even a traveling movie show

merziac

PDX

Velocult was pretty much the pinnacle but alas is gone. RIP They had a somewhat rotating display and always some very cool, rare, amazing bikes of all types.

River City main store on MLK has been mentioned, is awesome and the best we have as of now, Dave has a fantastic collection that should be seen if you have a chance.

West End Bikes has several cool bikes to see including a Merz tandem, the owner will often be happy to show you some of his gems in the basement too.

Sellwood Cycle is a good bet for at least a few cool bikes anytime, they are consignments so you could take one home as well.
They had a Strawberry that we discussed at length here for the mongoloid headtube that sold and have an over the top sculpted, polished lug Vanilla as well as a very nice Hufnagel, also with polished lugs. None of which you do you see often. They also have a Fat chance for sale.

noglider 

I visited the National Cycle Museum in Lincoln, England in the 1980s and had a great time there. I see on this web page that they closed in the 90s but the stuff is on display in Llandrindon Wells in Wales.

repechage

yes, I was able to see that show there too. One day per week at the time- museum entry was free. I lucked out. So, I bought the book that went with it. Was in town for a steam locomotive excursion. My son’s favorite steam locomotive is based in Portland.

repechage

just checking- Velocult was going to do an online only merch thing... the site exists just now when I checked, but no offerings. Tough.

Doug Fattic 

There is a bicycle I made in about 1979 in this museum. Originally it was supposed to be an example of a "modern" bicycle but now it's a classic. It is the lightest steel frame I ever made. The whole bicycle weighs 15 1/2 pounds using only parts made in 1979 or before. Somewhere in my basement is a pair of Zues ti hubs from the same era to reduce weight of the normal Campy Record hubs. I never built them up into wheels. I just missed on getting a ti chain that Campy USA sold for only a very short time.

The bicycle museum in New Bremen is the remnants of the Schwinn museum in Chicago when it went bankrupt. I believe Crown fork lifts are made in that small town and that company wanted a museum of some kind and bid out everyone else at the bankruptcy auction.

I may be the only person on this forum that has visited the bicycle museum at the XB3 company in Kharkov, Ukraine. It was very nicely done. When I 1st visited the factory in 2000 it had a sign outside saying they had been in business 75 years. I'm not sure the company is still in business.

merziac

You might be able to find something out through Sky's instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/velocult/

He also is on ebay, steelbikelover

rm -rf

From a 2018 visit to the New Bremen Ohio Bicycle Museum. I stopped in this fall again, and a lot of exhibits have changed; a bunch of bikes I hadn't seen before.
The cafe right down the street is nice, and extremely inexpensive.

This collection is mostly American made bikes. There's an interesting mix of contemporary bikes, too ; Carbon, titanium, handmade steel, for racing, mountain, etc.
The 1870-1900 bikes are the most interesting, I think. There wasn't a standard bike geometry, materials, and components, so all these small manufacturers went to extremes on their designs. But a few of these 120 year old bikes wouldn't look too out of place out on the road now.

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Detail from a high wheel seated trike with twist grip steering.
The brass bands are from the foot pedal power, instead of chains. Does twisting the grip slacken the band, to steer in that direction? It's essentially "fixed gear", but could both bands be loosened to coast downhill? But the only brakes are the foot pedal drive.











Who needs chains! But there better not be any frame flex or the gears are going to slip.



With it's contemporaries.


A vintage photo of this 5-rider race bike. Nice paint too!

Jeff Wills

I was there about 2 years ago. Fascinating oddball collection of vehicles. Where else would you find an amphibious Corvair pickup?

Here's the bicycle collection: https://www.lanemotormuseum.org/collection/bicycles

cb400bill

That'd be this bike.

Deal4Fuji

"Those Ukraine bikes really knock me out" I love their head badge. ..any photos from your visit?

Schreck83 

The Pierce-Arrow company started out as a manufacturer of bicycles. The Pierce Arrow Museum in Buffalo has both autos and early bicycles:
Home ? Pierce Arrow Museum

thinktubes 

There is a small bike exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.

Not worth a special visit, but if you do visit the museum, make sure you see it.

https://www.msichicago.org/explore/w...f-the-bicycle/

Sedgemop 

Was just about to post this, myself. I like the bike exhibit, but the whole place is great and worth a visit.

thinktubes 

Definitely recommend as a whole. We go at least once a year. Never gets old.

BFisher

Follow-up to my previous post, the museum in Edinburgh. I remember now that it was difficult to get good pics, but here's what I have.


I could not get all seven in the shot, with the people and height of the display.




Believe this was the Dunlop display:


Not the best pics, but it's what I got.

repechage

[QUOTE=Schreck83;21279550]The Pierce-Arrow company started out as a manufacturer of bicycles. The Pierce Arrow Museum in Buffalo has both autos and early bicycles:
Home ? Pierce Arrow Museum


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Note the leaf spring front fork, and what is probably a shock absorber in the monostay of the upper seat stay assemblies.
that design would show up again in the early rear suspension mtb era.
love that fork crown too, very stately.

repechage

There definitely is a need for discrete wheel stands to hold up bicycles.
have to think about that

Wildwood 

Appreciate all the replies and pics.

Some good stops for everyone's traveling sidetrips.

Dan Burkhart 

I have been to The museum in New Bremen Ohio. They have way more stuff than they have room to display, so the exhibits change up frequently. Some day, I hope to go back.
Have been to the Wright Brothers shop at Greenfield Village,and also, their shop in Dayton. The brothers moved their operation around from place to place, so there is more than one shop that can lay claim to the title..
Not a museum, but the late Mike Barry's collection at his shop in Toronto is certainly museum worthy. His son, Mike Junior is carrying on the tradition at Mariposa Bicycles. I've been there a couple of times, and he has lots of cool stuff.
He often rents period correct bikes for movie shoots. This bike is in his collection.

Leinster

I came into this thread specifically to mention the Fairfax museum. It’s a nice little spot with very friendly staff. They were happy to put on some videos for the kids while I checked out all the exhibits. And as a bonus, the likes of Gary Fisher and Joe Breeze might just be there when you stop by; Tom Ritchey was giving a personal tour to a couple of foreign students as I was looking around.

CaliTexan

Another vote for Bicycle Heaven in Pittsburgh. I can't tell if it was originally intended to be a museum, or was just someone's funky collection that got out of hand. Either way, its a fun visit.

adamrice 

• The Bicycle Culture Center in Tokyo has an interesting collection (or did, last time I was there).
• Cycle Smithy in Chicago is a working shop (that's been around since roughly 1980) but it has an astounding collection of old bikes.