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Bicycling Through Time: The Farren Collection is an impressive coffee table book for the cyclist in your life!
Paul Farren claims he and his wife Charlie have around 85 percent of the pre-1900 bicycles in Australia – all under one roof in a Melbourne warehouse-cum-museum. Thirty years of hunting them down and collecting has resulted in one of the most impressive early bike collections in the world. It includes 160 pre-1900 bicycles, including hobby horses, boneshakers and Penny Farthings, as well as early 20th-century models. The collection charts the development of the bicycle, which foreshadows the invention of the motor car in many surprising ways. It also shows wider social change and the role the bicycle has played in female emancipation, war and its progression from plaything of the wealthy to utilitarian mode of transport of the masses.
We have a very limited number of this exceptional book available in-store or online at Abbotsford Cycles. Bicycling Through Time is a must have book for any bike enthusiast.
If you would like to see the Farren Collection in person you can! Twice a year Abbotsford Cycles hosts the Bicycle Swap Meet out the back of our shop in Richmond. This swap meet is somewhat of an institution in Melbourne, and has been going on for decades. Charlie Farren welcomes any keen bike fan to visit the Farren Collection after the swap meet, where the impressive museum is open for the afternoon.
For more information about the famous Bicycle Swap Meet check it out here.
Bicycling Through Time: The Farren Collection
Author(s): Paul and Charlie Farren
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