Why People Collect Vintage Bicycles

Video Transcript

"So why do people collect vintage bicycles? It's different than collecting automobiles for example or motorcycles. Vintage bicycles, there are no titles, there's no insurance involved and there's, there are no fuels or heavy oils. There's of course a little bit of oil and grease involved in cleaning up a vintage bicycle and restoring one but it's nothing like working with automobiles or motorcycles or boats or things like that. Plus vintage bicycles everyone had a bicycle growing up and they're very easy to find. The kind of bikes I'll be talking about in these series aren't these super rare bikes. They're not the old high wheel bikes of, of, from the turn of the century and they're not going to be these super high end bikes that are extremely expensive and hard to find. The types of bikes that I'm going to talk about are the types of bikes that you may find. A, you and other general collectors because you'll find them at yard sales, you'll find them at flea markets. You might have one in your garage or your basement, you, you're forty years old and, and you remember the bike that's at your parents house and you want to take that bike out, this is what I'll be talking about."