Chicago Bikes

Okay, so I could have taken alot more pictures of bikes while we were in Chicago, though none of them would be as cool as the Tokyo bikes (there were no 3Renshos to be seen on Clark St.).

This first one is obviously some sort of delivery bike, and if I remember correctly I think it was parked in front of a Chinese fastfood place. I wonder how the steering works.

The other pictures are from the Cycle Smithy, a nice bike shop just down the street from the place we were staying. The coolest thing about the shop were all of the classic bikes that were hanging from the ceiling. I would have taken more, but felt a little weird wondering around the shop kneeling in strange poses trying to get pictures of the full bikes. So I ended up taking only a few of the most interesting old race bikes.

The first one is a picture of the old Campy rod-actuated shifting set up that was developed years before the first derailuer. The second is a picture of the full bike.

The other picture is of a Myata with full Shimano AX Dura Ace groupo, which was only made for about a year (1982), and while advanced for its day, it had too many foibiles to save it from being axed.