Let's see your favorite head-tube badges
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Let's see your favorite head-tube badges
So, let's see them!
I have a very limited "collection" of bikes and only one has a head-tube badge, and it isn't built up yet. Here it is.
What have you got?
I have a very limited "collection" of bikes and only one has a head-tube badge, and it isn't built up yet. Here it is.
What have you got?
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Not quite as C&V (this is from a '97)
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When I see another....it'll stop being a favorite
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I've always liked this one. It's a little "busy", but captures the thirties deco spirit nicely.
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[h=2]Head Badges - calling all Head Badges! Awesome Head badges[/h]
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My Holdsworth came to me without its original headbadge, which was presumably the one with a prancing horse. I'm not really fond of that design, and the badge was missing anyway, so I made a decal based on their earier style headbadge (1930's-40's).
It's duplicated on the seat tube, of course:
It's duplicated on the seat tube, of course:
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Swiss made 1965 Tigra...
Mid 1970's Alpine
Head badge I used on frames that I built for myself.
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Mid 1970's Alpine
Head badge I used on frames that I built for myself.
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Oh well -- I'll post it here, too. Bonus -- Vienna Rathausmann statue badge on Capo Sieger seat tube.
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Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
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Peugeot: 1970 UO-8, S/N 0010468
Bianchi: 1982 Campione d'Italia, S/N 1.M9914
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Hobbs, Hetchins, Holdsworth, Rotrax, Carpenter, Higgins
Here are some in my collection from the 1950's:
My favorites are the Blue Riband and the Carpenter (which is nicely Art Deco). They used to take a lot of care in designing and making these early badges.
There is also an unfinished Hetchins head badge (obtained from the Hetchins' household), which I'll enamel at some point. On the left is an alloy Hetchins badge which is quite rough and may have been a prototype.
My favorites are the Blue Riband and the Carpenter (which is nicely Art Deco). They used to take a lot of care in designing and making these early badges.
There is also an unfinished Hetchins head badge (obtained from the Hetchins' household), which I'll enamel at some point. On the left is an alloy Hetchins badge which is quite rough and may have been a prototype.
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The 1950s - early 1960s Bertin badge before the switch to foil and decals.
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