Types of Vintage Bicycles

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"So what types of bicycles do people collect? Well some people like to collect what are considered muscle bikes. These are generally made in the nineteen sixties and seventies and a lot of people who are say forty or fifty years old they had a bike like this when they were a kid. A lot of people want to collect what they had as a kid. Other people like English bikes. This happens to be from the seventies but this style bicycle has been made since probably the nineteen thirties. We'll go into more detail on what these bikes are right now but it may look kind of familiar to you, the name Raleigh is probably very familiar to you. This is a standard three speed. I'll go into more detail about that. Also people like bikes that are just funky in general, this is a Tandem obviously two people can sit on it and ride it and the style of this bike is a middleweight style and I'll go into what that actually means. But people, people will collect a bike like this for riding, people would collect a bike like this, the Classic Schwinn Stingray with the shifter. People don't ride these that much, a lot of times somebody will hang this up in their garage or their basement and have it just be a show piece."