Old bike, New concept

💠 Concept: Labour Course 1920 100th Anniversary 💠
In this personal project, I tried to recreate one of the famous bicycles from the 20s.
All materials applied on this model are procedurals, except for the front golden plate logo.

✨ A BRIEF HISTORY ✨
Little is known about the eccentric company Labor, a bicycle manufacturer that operated between the 19th and 20th centuries. With its truss bridge-shaped frames copied from the true patented model by Iver Johnson, allowing the professional cyclist Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor to achieve two world championships and become famous cycling.

Taylor ran in the French championship for the Johnson team and later for the Labor team. But that was not only what Taylor was running from, but also from the enormous prejudice he received: racism. At age 12 he won his first bicycle, becoming an expert in acrobatic tricks. That's when Tom Hay, a bike shop owner hired him to do the shop cleaning and stunts, including some of them wearing a military uniform, probably from which his nickname came up.

Initially, some racing bicycles had no brakes. Later on, a gear was added at the rear, allowing the rider two speeds when reversing the rear wheel.