What's the oldest bike you have heard of someone "daily riding"?
 

I have a 1967 but I know that's not even the close to the oldest that some of you all are sporting.

What's the oldest bike you've heard of that someone is still using instead of having been retired to wall or yard art?

Edit: I have also been referred to The CABE.

My oldest rider at the moment is a 1952 Claud Butler Olympic Sprint... And it's as fast as it looks.

-Gregory

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What's the silver post in the center?

A tire pump.

It's not a daily rider but I do occasionally ride it, my 1924 Mead Ranger.

On a Claud Butler it's a tyre pump ;)

Handy to have on the velodrome.

I met a guy in Hollywood who rode a 1943 Arnold Schwinn track bike to work everyday at Trader Joe’s.

My weekly rider (I don't ride daily) is a Motobecane camping bike. It's from 1956, 1957 or earlier. I use it around town. I also take daytrips by train in weekends, going by train to someplace, cycle for an afternoon to a different place, and take the train home again.


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French Motobecane Cyclotouriste M.T.H.C pre-1957

Do you know the name of the oldest bicycle brand in China? torch brand?shanghai brand?

You guys have me beat -- 1959 Capo Modell Campagnolo. A bit of a cheat, I suppose, because the crankset and seatpost are ca. 1970, the wheelset and derailleurs are ca. 1980, and the maroon(!) Brooks Pro is 21st Century, but the brakes and shift levers are original.

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Here in Holland basic two-wheeled transportation hasn't changed all that much during the previous century, and as the build quality of the older examples was pretty good, many a pre-WWII bike is still in use, even daily.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikefor...0f39ad7566.jpg

A buddy is a friend of Sam J., a longtime shop mechanic and employee. Russell might know him... he worked at Bushwhacker for quite a while, but reportedly has moved to the Trek shop.

Anyway, my friend has known Sam since the old days, and says Sam used to ride a high wheeler everywhere. He described some other eccentricities that I won't go into. I can't vouch for the veracity of this story, but Sam did display a trike at the vintage bike event at Bushwhacker a few years ago. That does confirm a trend to eccentricity (although all of us probably display a bit of this trend too)...

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Steve in Peoria
(my oldest bike is a '74 Raleigh, which is almost 50 years old, and this is a bit shocking to me)

Also veering off a bit, I could ride this everyday, but don't...... :innocent:

58 Paramount that most have seen plenty of. ;)


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My wife rode this wartime Eatons-Hercules rebrand exclusively from 1997 until today. She doesn't ride much after her two knee replacements but I like to go shopping with it every few weeks I had a similar 50's McBride Cycle rebrand but the weight was killing me so I moved it along.

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My daily rider is my off-topic piece-o-crap commuter. But I do ride on occasion old bikes 1915/1925/1933. But before he passed, the daily rider of Luciano Berruti was a 1908 Peugeot.

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What makes are those, and how can you even date a bike that old?

Please excuse the "wrong side" of the bike. I purchased this Claude Delage (mid-teens to mid-twenties) from France and when I was changing the tires, they had tubes from the 80's that were covered with patches. Somebody in France was using it as a daily rider.
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I don't ride it daily, but I do ride it occasionally: 1927 Hercules Speed King-
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Rola/Frejus/Frejus.

Serial numbers. Date stamps on the components.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...a9ff38d4_k.jpgRola 01 by iabisdb, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/868/39...bf4a4d96_k.jpgFrejus 01 by iabisdb, on Flickr

https://live.staticflickr.com/4754/3...0dcdceea_k.jpgFrejus001 by iabisdb, on Flickr

My mom didn’t drive and rode a 1930’s Elgin well into the 1980s

I missed the apparent serious sarcasm of the second point. In fact, this is the road/path model with reinforced track dropouts with fender eyelets and brake holes drilled front and rear. It would have been ideal for short time trials such as those that were popular in England at the time (25-mile routes being most likely given the way the bicycle rides, in my opinion). I've seen some of the track-focused frame builds that did not include the pump mounts. So, I think that all makes sense from a functional perspective!

-Gregory

I have a 1954 Rudge-with a working dynohub-that I will be setting up soon.

Sam is cool as all get out. My daily rider is a 71 professional. I have ridden newer bikes but they just aren't as fun.
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71 professional and a Sekine my gf will not give up on.

I sometimes still ride my 1936 dürkopp, it used to be my only bike. I have a relative that still goes hiking/touring in his 1930-s husqvarna, he got it in the 1960-s and has been with him ever since. Only thing left of it is the frame basically, cant imagine the mileage. He slightly regrets not keeping the original parts.

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This early 1950s Mercier was my daily rider for a few years. More info here: https://djcatnap.com/1950s-mercier-650b-randonneur/