National Cycle Museum

LD1 5DL Powys, Gran Bretaña (GB) (Wales)

Wikipedia:
The building and site was known as The Automobile Palace, a project of bicycle shop owner Tom Norton, who bought the site in 1906 for his expanding business. The building was initially completed in 1911 in an Art Deco style and then tripled in size, to the same standard, in 1919. It has received a Grade II* heritage listing, being "an exceptionally early grid-pattern steel-framed building surviving largely unaltered".

By bike: The NCC is approximately 4 miles off Route 8 of the National Cycle Network, a comprehensive network of safe and attractive places to cycle throughout the UK.

By rail: Situated on the Shrewsbury to Swansea line.

By road: Llandrindod Wells is situated on the A483
Example journey times: Seven Bridge - 2 hrs,
Chester - 2 hrs, Birmingham - 2½ hrs.

Wikipedia:
The museum contains over 260 bicycles from an 1818 hobby-horse to the latest carbon-fibre designs, including a large collection of penny-farthings and solid-tyred safety bicycles, and cycling books, accessories and paraphernalia.

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Visit the National Cycle Collection and enter the World of the Bicycle.

How big is a Penny Farthing's wheel? And just how uncomfortable were those early bikes compared with today's hi-tech versions? Journey through the lanes of cycle history and see bicycles from 1819, such as the Hobby Horse, Boneshakers and Penny Farthings, up to the most modern Carbon Fibre machines of today.

Walk along our historic street complete with country garage including a 1928 Austin 7, early radio and bicycle shops. Lamp collections, photographs, posters and enamel signs are displayed to enhance the period in which the bicycles are set. The Dunlop tyre story sets the stage for the entrance of the tyred bicycle. The exhibition hall contains displays on past racing stars such as Tom Simpson, Bill Bradley winner of the Milk Race in 1959/60, Billie Dovey the keep fit lady of the 1930's who rode just under 30,000 miles in one year, Barry Clarke National Mountain Bike Champion of 1996 and George Nightingale who rode the 25-mile in under an hour in 1938, to name but a few.

The are approximately 250 machines on display within the 6,000 square feet of floor space at any one time, with a similar number held in the reserve collection. Special themed exhibitions are always on display, for the list of current and forthcoming ones, please see the Events page.
 

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