Vintage Headbadge Gallery

[Canuk]

Thought I might start a thread on the often forgotten importance of head badges to ID and define a bicycle. Still in vogue today, they seem to be nowhere near as ornate and important as those pre 1980.

Here are a few examples to get started.

First off Paris Galibier, and a two piece vintage Peugeot headbadge and the famous Hetchins logo.

 

[juvela]

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thar be a thread here on those bleedin' oytoy headplates...presently at about two hundred fifty posts -

https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/italian-head-badge-thread.216836/

another thread here which be mostly yankish marques, just under one thousand posts -

https://thecabe.com/forum/threads/vintage-head-badges-photos.26320/

a thread here covering the marques of all lands -

Let's see your favorite head-tube badges

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[bagpuss]

My collection of Raleigh head badges .

https://flic.kr/p/2UXAxK

 

[bagpuss]

Copy of the first Mercain head badge.

https://flic.kr/p/2jJ5z9E

 

[Canuk]

My collection of Raleigh head badges .

https://flic.kr/p/2UXAxK

That's a very comprehensive collection of Raleigh!

 

[bagpuss]

Early 1930's Raleigh on an x frame .not mine .

 

[mdvineng]

Also a huge database of them on Velobase

 

[bagpuss]

Found this one in a bracante in France

https://flic.kr/p/6JjGHK

 

[bagpuss]

Rare Andy Parker.

https://flic.kr/p/6HktSA

 

[bagpuss]

One of Carltons many styles. A rare flyer on a mixte .

https://flic.kr/p/vkw9Hq