Casey Robertson Illustrates Wilburt Stevens Maltby

Digital illustration of an analog photograph, how about that! Thank you Casey Robertson (aka @champagne_rodman) for helping us have some fun with history. This is Wilburt Stevens Maltby. Maltby and I both graduated from the same high school, but were separated by about 120 years. Maltby also happened to be employed and sponsored by the Keating Wheel Co during the 1890s as a trick cyclist. Thank you Casey for pumping some new life into this old photograph of ours, and continuing on Maltby’s legacy!

Nick KeatingMay 13, 2020Bicycle, Vintage, Illustration, Design, Analog, Maltby, Keating, Keating Wheel Company, Casey Robertson, 1890s, Track, Trick, Cycling, KWC

Bicycle Crumbs Designs Our Family Portrait

Leave it to @bicyclecrumbs to put a smile on our faces amidst the covid craziness. Thanks for the family portraits my friend. 122 years might separate these two, but grandad is still looking pretty sprightly!

Nick KeatingApril 10, 2020Keating Wheel Company, KWC, Bicycle Crumbs, Design, Illustration, Bicycle, History, Track Bike

Keating Wheel Company Factory - Middletown, CT

On December 31, 1896, smoke billowed from the 135 foot chimney atop Keating’s factory for the first time.

Nick KeatingNovember 26, 2019Keating Wheel Company, KWC, Factory, GE, Bicycles, History, Electricity, Story, Middletown, Connecticut, Wheel Man, Power

Van Corker Goes For A Scorch

The bicycle, vastly unchanged in over a century, remains as captivating and magnetic as when the tires first hit the road. For my first post in “Wheel Chronicles”, we will look back to January 1893 and Volume 10 of The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review. In it, the article Van Corker Goes For A Scorch -- a 125-year-old account of a spirited Spring ride outside New York City.

H.F. Campbell x Providence City Hall

[May 17, 1892] H.F. Campbell rides his Keating bicycle down the stone steps of Providence City Hall - not once, but nine times - in a “dramatic” demonstration of strength.

Nick KeatingMarch 2, 2018Keating Wheel Company, KWC, History, Story, Providene, Rhode Island, City Hall, H.F. Campbell, Steps, Danny MacAskill, Santa Cruz, Bicycle, TricksComment