Our "Bikes"

HighNelly Bikes Ltd is an Irish Family business established several years ago in the Mid-West of Ireland. Our main line of business is to refurbish vintage bicycles from scrap condition back to the splendour of the day it came out of a country hardware store, some 60 - 100 years ago...
 

The Schwinn Quint circa 1890's

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My story is boring. I had no tricycle, my first bike was a Schwinn 26" with balloon tires. I rode it till I could learn to drive a car.
 
Wanna See Bikes?

THIS is bikes! The "Colorado River Run", once a year in Laughlin, this year estimated number of bikes nearly 30,000! They were everywhere! imp

 
That's our favorite place in Laughlin! Up at the top of the ship is a buffet and we sit up there and eat and look out at the desert. :) I'm glad I wasn't there when the bikers were though. I'm not a biker girl!
 
Shal: In the latter part of the 1800's, steamships exactly like this copy, plied the Colorado River from the Yuma area, down by the Gulf of Mexico, all the way up north to the area where Hoover Dam was built. They carried supplies needed by the large contingencies of mining communities located along the river. Nelson, NV, was one of the larger ones. Nelson, today, exists as a remote "retirement" town, perhaps pop. 100.

Lin, when the bikes come to town, we stay down nearer our home, where a very immaculately maintained casino-resort named AVI, usually remains fairly off-bounds for the bikes. For the most part, expecting the "bikers" to be full-fledged gang-member, gun-carrying, dangerous sorts, the idea fizzles. Mostly, they are old retired, even though tattooed, farts like me. During this b year's run, several of the bikers coming upon a severe automobile accident, pulled folks to safety. imp
 
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