Thorn Cycles Forum
Community => Non-Thorn Related => Topic started by: in4 on May 11, 2015, 09:11:24 PM
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/technology/70437/embacher-collection-bicycle-auction-dorotheum.html
None mine!
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Some seriously nice bikes in there .
I do like the look of this shaft drive one.
http://www.dorotheum.com/auktion-detail/auktion-11198-bicycles-from-the-embacher-collection/lot-1872772-worldscape-co-aitelen-chainless.html?offset=1
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Don't you just hate it sometimes that you don't live in Vienna?!
I've been drooling over the Rene Herse Diagonale, and the titanium Moulton can move in anytime, too! ;D
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With you on René Herse's creation, Sam -- he had a sense of line, eh? The shaftie seems to have something missing, though I can't quite put my finger on it. (It occurred to me that, if these were to succeed, there'd be no haggling/handwringing/whatever about Life with & Without a Chainglider...)
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Hi All!
About 25 years ago, I had some correspondence with Tony Hadland about Le Petit Bi, the folding bicycle of the type shown as number 147 and 148 on the Dorotheum auction list. He had even found a photo of Jean-Paul Sartre riding one. If curious, the story is interesting. See: https://hadland.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/in-search-of-le-petit-bi-2/ It is nice to see Le Petit Bi here in two examples -- standard and demontable.
Some interesting entries here; thanks, Ian, for your thoughtful and intriguing post!
Best,
Dan.
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That Rene Herse tandem on top of the article at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/technology/70437/embacher-collection-bicycle-auction-dorotheum.html is lethal. Sit on the stoker seat and wake up in hospital with a big bump on the back of your head.
I fancy the Subaru all-wheel drive, No 28, for its technical interest. The BSA Paratrooper, No 84 is amazing; it looks like Pashley made it for BSA.
I would have thought that with its history the Flying Gate, No 102 would have a bigger reserve; ugly bike, though. On the whole, the frame experiments here serve to convince only that the traditional diamond, trapeze and mixte have survived for a reason.
And the Alex Singer, No 40. A girl who gave me a Madrilena doctor's bag in a year in Paris which would be indelicate to enquire into, told me that Alex Singer had far, far greater provenance than Rene Herse. Actually, she said, "better breeding", but today we're all so bowdlerized and worried about offending someone, somewhere, sometime...
The Bob Jackson, No 54 has fine breeding, too.
But undoubtedly the greatest classic here is the Raleigh Tourist, No 15. Just look how laid-back it is, not a care in the world! That's what cycling should be like.
Thanks for posting this one, Ian; a gennie blast from the past. For which of these, though, would you give up a Thorn? (I didn't see any for which I would give up my favourite bike for these seven years now.)
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But undoubtedly the greatest classic here is the Raleigh Tourist, No 15. Just look how laid-back it is, not a care in the world! That's what cycling should be like.
And what about this for a selling point:
and a tough steel rod-brakes(still used on bikes in India and Africa)
:D
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For me the Rene Herse Diagonale. 8)