{"id":3147,"date":"2026-03-25T11:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.axelweis.bplaced.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=3147"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:18:15","slug":"vintage-bikes-magic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.axelweis.bplaced.net\/wordpress\/vintage-bikes-magic","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Bikes Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I love making mechanical things. Particularly if they are aesthetically pleasing. Steel bicycles from the 70s and 80s – especially the delicate, graceful<\/strong><\/mark><\/em> racing bikes that time – are such wonderful things. Moreover, they are extremely functional, technically highly efficient and fully analog objects. Things that, with sensitive and careful use, are made to last forever. That’s how I became a vintage road bike tinkerer.<\/strong><\/mark><\/em> What I appreciate too is that it’s completely unimportant and hardly anyone cares about (so you don’t take yourself too seriously and don’t lose the ground grip, literally<\/em><\/strong> ;). <\/em><\/strong>
And I like taking photos. Especially of those things that I find beautiful\u2026 <\/strong><\/mark><\/em>
Here I share a few of them<\/strong><\/mark><\/em> \ud83e\udd38\ud83c\udffb


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Home-made street-\/touring bicycle for a tall rider and longer distances (GERMAAN<\/strong> frame, Columbus steel, 1978)<\/mark><\/summary>\n

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Home-made street-\/racing bicycle, fast (ORLANDO<\/strong> ‚Stuttgart‘ frame, Columbus Aelle steel, 1980)<\/mark><\/summary>\n

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Very rare and complete historic racing bicycle, very fast \ud83d\ude80 (original BOSCHETTI<\/strong>, Campagnolo hardware, Columbus Aelle steel, 1988-1990).<\/mark><\/summary>\n

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Marginal Notes \ud83d\udeb4\ud83c\udffb<\/mark>
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Here are some links to interesting aspects of cycling:<\/summary>\n

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\u2022 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fcRzp6xwuzE<\/a>
\u2022 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0VHsqdu2Dyw<\/a>
\u2022 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ERJ-cf_ecO4<\/a>
\u2022 https:\/\/www.bicycling.com\/bikes-gear\/a70941247\/bike-tire-pressure-explained<\/a>
\u2022 https:\/\/www.pirelli.com\/global\/en-ww\/road\/bicycles\/when-roads-become-monuments-136536\/<\/a>

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Marginal Notes \ud83d\udeb4\ud83c\udffb \u2022 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fcRzp6xwuzE\u2022 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0VHsqdu2Dyw\u2022 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ERJ-cf_ecO4\u2022 https:\/\/www.bicycling.com\/bikes-gear\/a70941247\/bike-tire-pressure-explained\u2022 https:\/\/www.pirelli.com\/global\/en-ww\/road\/bicycles\/when-roads-become-monuments-136536\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3365,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3147","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axelweis.bplaced.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axelweis.bplaced.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axelweis.bplaced.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axelweis.bplaced.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axelweis.bplaced.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3147"}],"version-history":[{"count":147,"href":"https:\/\/www.axelweis.bplaced.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3620,"href":"https:\/\/www.axelweis.bplaced.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3147\/revisions\/3620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.axelweis.bplaced.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.axelweis.bplaced.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}