Dear Indonesian old-bicycle-lovers,
Because it was 125 years ago that Fongers started making bicycles in the City of Groningen we had a special Fongers weekend in Groningen.
We (vereniging “de oude fiets”) had a tour in and around the city of Groningen, we visited the old Fongers-factory on the Hereweg.
After that we made a tour through the city to the building Where Mr. Albert Fongers started making bicycles 125 years ago, this building is still there (with a memory-stone) and it was even for sale ! (but a bit too expensive for us…Hehehe…)
Than we visited the museum where a lot of the history of Fongers was shown by a lot of old material of the factory was shown and also a number of old Fongers bicycles.
Than we went to the old Fongers archive where a lot of very nice old Fongers Photo’s were shown.
The Bicycles in the museum are mostly from collectors in Holland (1 of mine also)
The oldest made in 1901, with a nice original tandem from 1903 and a number of other beautiful examples, even a Highwheel that should be made by Fongers, but we are not shore about that.
Because of the poor light in the museum I could not make good photo’s with my little camera, the photo’s from the tour with 100 old Fongers bicycles are better.
There are a lot of photo’s, choose out the best you think for publication on the sepeda wordpress website if you like,
Greetings from the Fongers-city of Groningen,
Andre Koopmans
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