Triumph 20 with matching luggage

Delayed from yesterday when I was mad busy, here's a little Triumph 20 shopper bike. These 20 inch wheeled bikes were made popular back in the day, and really they make a lot of sense. By having these smaller wheels you do reduce the potential top speed of the bike, but with that trade off you get much better acceleration from a stop and a reduction in the force needed to progress along at lower speeds. Ideal for city use then! It's why the folding bikes being made now by the likes of Brompton and Dahon with the smaller wheels make so much sense.

I really appreciate the matching luggage that came with this old Triumph.

A sweet little 20 inch rear fender with that nice round reflector...

And the usual awesome Triumph bicycle logo!

Some nice lettering...

And a claim of being a registered design, tops it off!

Raleigh Criterium Racing Criteria

How about this for a racing criteria, you need to have sweet retro bike graphics all over your bike or you can't come and race it.

This Raleigh Criterium looks smart, I like the continuation between the stripes on the top tube and the seat tube. Neat.
Raleigh racing showing their stuff.

Here is the Raleigh Criterium.

And here's a photo which should have been awesome if I had taken it properly and in focus! Yuck! Anyway, following on from the 333 Special Carbon frame from Monday, here's the classic 501 Reynolds sticker, and a colour coordinated mountain bike pedal on this vintage Raleigh racing bike.

333 Special Carbon Tubing Graphic

Total lazy post today. I didn't even bother taking a picture of the whole bike because it was nothing special, and neither is 333 Special Carbon Tubing anymore I guess. Still rad graphics from a time when industrial stuff had a more vocal place in culture.

Commuter Wars IV

I've spotted some bizarre bikes being used as commuters before, like this Swedish steel three speed with aero bars, a fully carbon designer mountain bike and a sit-up-straight town bike with an aero cut-out. But this is perhaps a bit more understandable, because presumably this person bought a bike to compete in time trial or triathlon events, and then realised the really just wanted to cycle around town.

So they hop on their painfully psychedelic 1990's bike saddle.

Grab the fully prostrating aero bars, finished in tasteful camouflage bar tape.

And blast their way to the shops on their time trial bike! Awesome.