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Step 1
Search for old racing medals, along with award cups and trophies. Cycling races, popular since the late 1800s, pitted the best athletes and cycles of their era against each other. The earliest races, held on level tracks, were for speed but by the 1920s the racecourses were featuring hills and curves. Awards presented in any of these races are highly collectible.
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Step 2
Look for cycling records and scrapbooks. Often kept by the riders, themselves, these records contain a personal history of races and cycling events. The more entries a cyclist recorded and the inclusion of race stubs or banners increases the value.
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Step 3
Check out "Cycling's Golden Age," by Owen Mulholland, for details on the cycling era that boomed after World War II, until the late 1960s, for photos, descriptions and values. The information comes from the Horton Collection, the largest cycling collection in the world (See Resources below).
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Step 4
Buy antique bicycles and the parts needed to restore them at The Classic and Antique Bicycle Exchange. With a forum for collectors of everything cycle related, including cycles, parts, records, photos and other memorabilia, you can discuss, buy or trade collectible products. (See Resources below).
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Step 5
Purchase the signed jerseys of cycling race winners from the 1950s to the present day for pieces of biking history that will increase in value.
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Step 6
Attend an antique and collectible bicycle show to see the styles of bikes from an earlier era and search the vendor tables for cycling memorabilia. One of the largest annual bicycling shows nationwide is the Larz Anderson show, held every year in Massachusetts (See Resources below).
Comments
LittleBird said
on 9/10/2008 One of the best resourses is Ebay.com. They always have a lot of cycling memorabilia.