Old Velos Festival open to bikes of all ages!

Kinda worrying that regardless of how many start the Vintage Classic, just "2-3 Riders return". Have you set traps?

Over the Scrouty 2019 - the locals ate well that night 😆

The vintage scene is massive. The variety of different makes is huge due to the fact that there were so many small shop builders operating.

It’s a really active scene and there are some wonderful forums and websites out there.

I bought a few over the last few years, privately and some from eBay. The prices of the most desired ones like Cinelli, De Rosa etc seemed to have jumped quite a lot in recent years. But you get to decide what you want to invest in. And from time to time bargains do appear but it can take a lot of watching and waiting to spot them.

Re the hoods: there are a few guys out there making repo hoods of decent quality. Just google for them and then look for user reviews before buying.

Folks apologies for not responding sooner, I missed oyur feedback!

@Mefistofelino 2-3 riders return - I got a great laugh out of that!

@JMcL our riders will eat well - picnic Saturday and Buffet Sunday.

@2011abc Dip your toe on Saturday and Sunday at the jumble sale. But bring cash as wifi and coverage is very poor.

@hesker You speak the truth, and with Oldvleos coming up thiere's quite a bit of stuff being advertised on OldVelos Cyclists FB page

@8valve You are a legend!

Hope all went well - couldn't have asked for more from the weather, I'd been looking forward to going along at least one of the days, but unfortunately had to go off to a funeral

It's a bit like looking at a herd of zebras, but is the fork on the Olympic Ace the wrong way round?

That’s a Stayer I believe.

Looks like a nice purple Pinarello at the back.

The red and green likely Italian too.

Yup. Reversed fork, smaller front wheel and an additional prop from the nose of the saddle to the top tube. You could spiral-wrap bandages around the rim (to retain the tub in case of a sudden deflation) for full authenticity but it would be unrideable on anything other than a board track.

The one at Old Velos doesn't appear to have the brace from the fork to the bars, but it has a small extra brace between the head tube and the downtube.

You know when I commented above about the tubs often being wrapped onto the rims with bandages to prevent them coming off?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIJPy-mW05A

Get you closer to the motorbike

Was curious to know a bit more about that, and what speed he got to before coming off, There's a movie in there somewhere. The guy was apparently called José Meiffret, a frenchman who got into motor pacing at the suggestion of Henri Desgrange because he have a "weak heart" and wasn't therefore suited to normal racing! Having smacked into the (concrete) veldrome at about 128km/h sustaining 5 skull fractures for his trouble. He got out of hospital and, as you do, became a trappist monk. He became the fastest monk (and indeed human) on a bike in 1963 getting to just shy of 205km/h on an autobahn behind a car with a 130 tooth chainring.

https://veloaficionado.com/blog/trapist-monk-jose-meiffret-the-fastest-cyclist-in-the-world