Bob, Nice to see you've reconsidered. I can see where shoe thing was pushing things a bit, but I'd rather hear someone's solution for finding cleated shoes to ride with than to see SPD's on their Raleigh or Peugeot! I find older bikes (1940-50's) interesting too; but the problem is lack of supply of the bikes themselves and of anyone with any firsthand knowledge. I live in an area that offers little hope of finding anything older than bike boom era bikes, not much I can do about that. Anything older will likely be balloon tired. My oldest bike is a 74. The list membership seems to me to lean heavily towards the 70's as their focal point. There are some members with early track bikes, but I think the numbers of early road bikes is very low.
If anyone has older bikes they haven't told us about, please let us hear from you!
Pete Geurds
Douglassville, PA