Spoke Sniffer’s flickr photostream provides one of the best resources for visual ephemera from the golden era of cycling. Spoke Sniffer collects, or rather, salvages many of his images from eBay where content appears and disappears in a matter weeks. Alongside photographs of famous and ordinary cyclists, Spoke Sniffer documents vintage frames, bicycle parts, product packaging, antique technologies and velocouture.
Here are a few of my favorite selections from the Spoke Sniffer archives:
Seriously, I need a pair of those Mary Jane buckle cycling shoes.
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That bike… Oh my! I need that. I seriuosly NEED that.