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an old photo from the 1900s of people on bikes on rolling hills with dirt roads and scattered farmhouses, in what is modern day Koreatown, Los Angeles

My Bikes

Useful Links

Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info - The Library of Alexandria of bike knowledge

RetroBike - Great info on all kinds of older bikes, active forums

Mountain Bike Review forums - lots of good info on mountain bikes

Gringineer Cycles Blog - old catalog scans and other info

BikeWrench subreddit - Good subreddit for working on bikes

MOMBAT - Museum of Mountain Biking Art & Technology, lots of catalog scans and other vintage bike info

Mountain Bike Catalogue - Some Australians putting together a decent database of vintage MTBs

Bike Calculators

Gear Calculator - calculate and compare bike gearing options

Bike Insights - Geometry comparison between bikes with good visualization

GeometryGeeks - Another good frame geometry comparison tool

Other Bike Personal Sites

MTB Timeline - a timeline of early MTBs up through the 90s

Vintage Trek - great for IDing old Trek, Gary Fisher, and Klein bikes

Parkpre Bikes - Parkpre Bike fan site

Bike History - Vintage Schwinn Bikes - Schwinn fan site