Bicycles On Stamps...

Well done mhc99
We did a reduced 40Km ride on Sunday,
we met up with the Busselton Cycle group
(average age 70y.o. doing an 850 Km trip)
we put on morning tea for them at woop woop....
(retirement is good fun!)

Rod: I love the stories behind stamps. You bring a human touch to them and I thank you.

Rod, here is another Australian bicycle stamp for you that I found while searching through one of my many Australia glassines.

Here's a philatelic site for aficionados of the Tour de France
(someone over in the West may be in training for this year's event)

http://www.poepperl.de/

Thanks mhc99 and cynical.

mhc99 I have a feeling that cycling stamp is available
in 3 perf styles, perf and 2 styles of die cut.

Wowser!
A great cycling link 22 crows
Straight onto my favourites.

Thanks to the big guys who give us so much enjoyment
(tour de France etc)
Our thoughts go to Wouter Weylandt (Belgium)
who died yesterday at the Giro

It can be a dangerous sport, on Sunday I very nearly hit
a large Kangaroo that was dead on the road,
and I wasn't paying attention on a downhill.

Still it is a fantastic sport, one doesn't have to go fast,
on Wednesdays in the country, we go slow, and go
sightseeing, it is a marvelous habit.

Great pics Rod, thanks for posting them.

Have you ever seen or heard of something like the Glide Cycle in Australia?
http://glidecycle.com/
I haven't seen one yet myself but am keen to try one out.

Crikey Puzz,
that's a new one for me :)
Never seen or heard of them before...crazy! :)

Our group has two electric bikes, around $1700
can be pedalled or the battery engaged for hills
and have a battery life of 80 Km
It gives the less fit members or aged or perhaps
the odd knee problem, a chance to stay in the group and
join us on all our jaunts.

Believe me they have some grunt, technology has certainly
made cycling for all.

"mhc99 I have a feeling that cycling stamp is available
in 3 perf styles, perf and 2 styles of die cut."
That's not quite right.
When the standard letter postal rate went up to 41c in September 1989, AP released the Cycling stamp in single panes of 100 stamps, and a booklet with a pane of 10 stamps, with the same perforation, but one top or bottom straight edge. In May 1990 AP issued its first "peel and stick" stamp, in dispenser-pack rolls of 100, with die-cut perforation (the stamp shown above by mhc99). It was not a great success for collectors, as it proved almost impossible to remove the stamps from envelopes. It did not have a long life, as the standard letter rate went up again in September 1990 to 43c, with a new definitive on skateboarding, with the same 3 versions (sheet, booklet & self-adhesive (from roll)).
The new cycling "peel and stick" stamps had a 2 page write-up in ASB no.206, June-July 1990.

Cheers 22 crows,
thanks for the correction.
My scanned Bulletins jump from 199 to 249
so I have not scanned that issue yet, so cannot contribute.

Aw man! I was beat to it with the Mexico stamp! Hope this wasn't already here and I missed it

Cyclist, designed by Tunisian artist Hatem El Mekki (1918-2003), engraved by Georges Bétemps, and issued by Tunisia on August 25, 1960 to publicize its participation in the 1960 Olympic Games , Scott No. 373.

- nethryk