Bibliography: Helpful Sources for Information on Old Bikes

 

 

Below is a list of sources I find particularly useful for dealing with old bikes. Links are included for the online, free sources. Some sources require a subscription and some are print only. With a couple of exceptions, this list generally does not include discussion areas and blogs.

Old Bikes Reference Sites and Libraries:

 The Veteran Cycle Club library (online, member subscription)

Sheldon Brown (online, free)

Society of Three Speeds (online, free) 

The Online Bicycle Museum (online, free)
 

 

Sturmey Archer:

Hub of the Universe: the Sturmey Archer Story by Tony Hadland (print only, book)

Sturmey Archer Heritage (online, free)

Hadland's Blog (Tony Hadland) (online, free) 

Sturmey Archer Trigger Shifters, 1938-60, by Martin Hanczyc (online, free)

Raleigh:

Raleigh Past and Presence by Tony Hadland (print only, book)

The Headbadge: Raleigh Sports Reference pages (online, free)

The Headbadge: Raleigh Catalog Archive (online, free)

The Story of the Raleigh Bicycle, by Gregory Bowden (print only, book)

Retro Raleighs, Archive, at Sheldon Brown (online, free)

For the Love of English Three Speeds discussion (online, free)

 

 

Schwinn:

CABE Schwinn New World topic (Schwinn New World Bikes - We Know You Have Them, online, free)

Waterford Schwinn catalog archive (online, free)

Schwinn Tech & Spec Guide, Electro-Forged Schwinns, by Geoff Greene (print only, book) 

Fifty Years of Schwinn Built Bicycles by Arnold, Schwinn & Co. (print only?)

 

 

Those sources get me through most of what I need. Tony Hadland's printed work in particular is first-rate if you are into Raleighs or Sturmey Archer parts.