Path Racers Delight

As evidenced by both past posts and some of the featured builds here on this site, I am a big fan of classically styled, or classic original, bicycles. Recently while doing some research and looking for some new build inspirations I discovered Bishops Path Racers, the official blog of Bishops Cycles. If you get a chance I highly recommend you check out their builds on the site, these bikes are all pretty inspiring and amazing.

Whats Bishops is doing is bringing back to life old, forgotten British track bikes, or Path Racers, and putting them back on the streets. In a few cases they have simply used old Raleigh and BSA city bikes in place of the much harder to source original track bikes and built them in the Path Racer style. Either way, their restorations have each been a success as far as I can tell. Looking at these bikes, and other like them on the Net, it’s funny to see how similar, and how different, they are to the ones that we ride today.

It might be a bit underwhelming these days walking through department store bike sections, seeing what they’re trying to pass off to us as stylish and hip, but fortunately there are people like those at Bishops who bring the smiles and true class back to riding a bike.

Keep an out out here at Blacktop for a near future build or two of a Path Racer type bike. And if you are interested in owning one of your own, you can as always look to us at Blacktop Cyclery for all your custom bicycle needs.

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