Happy New Year from the Independent Fabrication Owners’ Club. Plenty to look forward to this year including some more fantastic paint jobs from the team in Somerville. With thousnads of photos here on ifrider.com the aim has always been to give you inspiration for your new IF or new coat of paint when it’s time for a respray. Still, if you want some retro inspiration from the many decades of bicycle production check out these sites:

nostalgic.net – A US-centric web site dedicated to vintage and antique bicycles and a good place to find reference photo images of antique bikes.

theracingbicycle.com – Get your Euro fix at this site dedicated to bicycles built prior to 1940 (antiques), bikes built between 1940 and 1989 (classics) and more recent “vintages” – bikes built prior to 1990.

classicrendevous.com – Dedicated to Lightweight Vintage Bicycles, circa 1900~1983.

vintagevelos – Get the wool shirts to match or to act as your inspiration…