#headbadges

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Headbadges 2024 Philadelphia Bike Expo 3.2024

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Headbadge Hunter: Rescuing the Beautiful Branding of Long Lost Bicycles

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(via Head Badges | Found this in a Berlin bicyclestore - Amazing.… | Flickr)

Found this in a Berlin bicyclestore - Amazing. But they are not willing to sell a single one of them. It's the owners collection

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Headbadge Hunter: Rescuing the Beautiful Branding of Long Lost Bicycles by Hunter Oatman-Stanford on Collectors Weekly

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Bike Badges

Collecting these would be a great hobby for someone interested in both type and bikes.Self proclaimed ‘bike geek’ Jeffery Conner is certainly falls into both categories. 

A professor from Michigan, USA, Jeff’s been collecting bicycle head badges since 2000, starting with just three badges, his collection grew to over 800 in just 36 months. The slightly curved badges come from all over the world and Jeff has found almost every letter of the alphabet (he was just missing Q & X according to this article). 

“There are symbols of freedom and speed – with wings and birds abounding – and also a debt to heraldic animals (serpents, lions and eagles, in particular), with ideas of strength and precision also conveyed in the designs.”

Last year London design agency, Carter Wong, produced a book collecting some of their favourite badges as a self-initiated project.

Imaging one of these flying in front of your trusty wheels!

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The Joys of Biking poster by Mary Kate McDevitt inspired vintage headbadges. 

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Creative Review have a profile of Carter Wong's A Cycling Lexicon, providing an A-Z of bicycle headbadges from the collection of Jeff Conner, a cycling-obsessed biology professor from Michigan.