Walter Dehlinger's Cycling Past

(last updated: 8/30/99)

These photos are from around the late 30's, 40's and early 50's showing Walter racing with the "New Century Wheelmen" cycling club (note the jersey logo with the lightning bolt/spoked wheel). Steve's Uncle Walter past away mid-September of 1996. He qualified for the US Olympic Cycling Team in 1939, but they didn't race due to WW2.
PS: a more detailed, better page will follow as I dig up more information and old photos.

Here's Walter's racing bicycle that he rode in the photos below. Brand is unknown, perhaps an Iverson or Paramount. It used to be lavendar, but was paintbrushed red later by Walter.

This is Walter (left) and a riding/racing buddy.

Walter coming off the start at the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

The jersey and helmet Walter rode much of his career. The helmet is the early traditional leather-hairnet type (made of padded leather strips connected together).
The jersey has the logo of the now defunct New Century Wheelmen (a cycling club started around the turn of the century) showing a bicycle wheel with a lightning bolt running across it.

Logo of the New Century Wheelmen.

An old pair of well-worn (and restitched/patched) wool cycling shorts. The pad inside is made of real chamois (still soft after all these years!).

Walter's racing shoes are made of leather upper, wooden sole, leather covered laces, and sheet-brass-covered wood cleats.