Craig Morrow has a simple reason for creating Bicycle Heaven, a combination museum and vintage parts shop tucked into the warehouse district along a bicycle trail on the north shore of Pittsburgh’s Ohio River: He loves bicycles and wants everyone else to love them, too.
The collection consists of more than 1,500 bikes and some 90,000 parts and accessories.
Morrow doesn’t plan to charge admission to the museum, though he’s hoping to expand his spare-parts business through it and maybe even sell some of the bikes he continues to collect. “I guess anything can be for sale if the price is right,” Morrow said.
Morrow has also rented period-authentic bicycles to movie production companies and plans to buy a fleet of new bikes that he’ll rent for $25 a day.
One of his favourite bikes The Spacelander has a funky, futuristic design and is on display at the Brooklyn Museum of Art , where it’s described as a “marvel of postwar biomorphic design.” The bikes retailed for $89.95 in 1960, but in excellent shape could be worth $15,000 or $16,000, though the collectors’ .
Morrow has four hanging on the wall, and others in storage. They aren’t for sale, though, because Morrow said they’re more fun to own and share with the folks who wander in.
“I’ve been waiting to do this for a long time and now it’s coming to life.”
Via:[ArtDaily]
