Traveling exhibits are commonplace when it comes to the arts and sciences but it’s rare for a bicycle museum to let a substantial portion of its collection roam outside its doors. For this month’s Throwback Thursday, we take a special look at some vintage bikes from Portland, Oregon shop Velo Cult, which graciously loaned out several of its prized machines to a display that Subaru put on at this year’s Sea Otter Classic.
While many see Velo Cult as a bike shop that happens to have a vintage bike collection, the reality is the latter came first and actually allowed the former to exist.
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The Skinner Descender sported six inches of rear wheel travel - in 1982!
“I own Velo Cult bike shop but really my shop started as an online business buying, restoring and selling vintage road bikes,†said shop owner Sky Boyer. “This was quite a few years back and while my business was restoring and selling road bikes, my personal passion is classic mountain bikes. Since my job was finding classic bikes, it was a full time objective searching them out and at the time classic mountain bikes were easier to find and not worth nearly what they are today. Not being worth much meant I could buy quite a few and trade up often. Selling off most of that collection is how I funded the build-out of my new store.â€
On the surface, the collection certainly is extremely diverse, comprising everything from a Ti Cycles beam bike to a 1950s Hetchins to a late 1970s Victor Vincente Topanga.
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