Unpacked and reassembled in Colorado, this young fella starts riding around on you. Before you knew what happened you were being crammed into a cardboard box and loaded onto a UPS truck. You were being tuned! Fresh grease? That hadn’t happened in years! 70 pounds of pressure in your tires? Hey, what’s going on? You are a display bike now, not a rider. Then one day you were roughly woken from a nap and brought into the work room at Classic Cycle. At Jeff’s Classic Cycle shop you met a bunch of old timers like yourself, and you talked about the old days… The cobblestones, racing around, snaring dresses and trouser legs with your chain… It was a good retirement. In the ’80′s your family decided to sell your garage (along with their house) and you were given to a guy named Jeff who seemed to like your kind. You kids and your stickers! Get a real head tube badge! Harry raised the original $16.50 purchase price by collecting clam shells from the Minnesota river and selling them to a local button factory.īy the way, if you take a look at the Iver Johnson Truss-bridge bike from the same era, you’ll note that the RaCycle was about a third of the price of the Iver Johnson. This bike was originally owned by Harry Nettleton of Red Wing, Minnesota. They connected people with jobs and schools, connected rural areas of the country with cities, connected extended families (and liberated family members from one another). However they were judged, early “safety” bicycles like this one really brought inexpensive personal transportation to the masses. According to the manufacturer, a 1904 Worlds Fair jury “consisting of the ablest consulting and manufacturing engineers in Europe and America, were unanimous in their decision that the Racycle was the most perfectly constructed, easiest running bicycle in the world.” The copy in old advertising and press releases like this one was so earnest. Check out the old ad that we found for RaCycle bikes.
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