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Museum Admission
Adults: £5.00.
Senior Citizens:/Students £4.00
Children 4-16: £2.00
Dogs £Free
Carers £Free
groups £groups are very welcome, flexible days/hours may be available , please contact us for details
We regret we cannot accept debit or credit cards.
Opening Times
Tuesdays 10am-5.30pm, Wednesdays and Fridays 10am-4pm
Please ring the museum and speak to a member of staff if planning to visit on a Friday pm or if weather is poor
The museum is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the year ( excluding between Christmas - New Year )
Call the museum on 01597 825531 on open days, otherwise contact the curators by email on curator@cyclemuseum.org.uk
National Cycle Museum
The Automobile Palace
Temple Street
Llandrindod Wells
Powys - Mid Wales
LD1 5DL
Tel: 01597 825531
 
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Unusual Frame Designs
The design of the safety bicycle very quickly became established using the ‘diamond’ frame layout or its variant, the ‘drop frame’ allowing the machine to be ridden by a lady wearing a long skirt.
However, some makers attempted to redesign the diamond frame from various motives: to shorten the wheelbase of the machine and thereby make it less subject to torque under pedalling load, to improve stiffness and to reduce the frame weight.
Some of these designs have little technical merit and must be regarded purely as engineering flights of fancy or introduced simply to make claims that the unusual design somehow offered benefits to the rider which would make him choose that make rather than a competitor.
Many of these unconventional frames were made by highly skilled designers and engineers and it is often in this area of bicycle design that one sees the most interesting and highest quality of cycle construction and manufacture.
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