What is the CLASSIC ERA for bicycles?
A. Roughly 1920 to 1965. “Classic bicycle” does not mean just ANY old bicycle. And like in automobiles, you know very well that SOME people will refer to a 1934 Packard dual-cowl phaeton as a classic. Others will refer to a 1979 Volkswagen beetle as “a classic”… er… but we HOPE you know which is which. We coined a definition published a classic bicycle definition first in a 1978 newsletter, Classic Bicycle & Whizzer News (CBWN)… and again published and copyrighted another definition in November, 1979 issue of Bicycle Dealer Showcase (BDS) magazine. CBWN was the first and ONLY newsletter in the hobby starting in 1977- such as it was in those times. BDS was read by over 20,000 bicycle dealers and industry people. We also taught CLASSIC BICYCLE seminars in bicycle industry trade shows like the BDS EXPO (predecessor to today’s INTERBIKE) in the 1970s. So we were first- it was our idea and no matter who says what today- nobody back in those times disputed our definition or had one of
