http://patentpending.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/1890_front_and_rear_suspension_bicycle.jpg
― dan m, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago)
They stole your saddle.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago)
Singlespeed full-susser, sort of like the Kona 'A' of its day.
― NickB, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago)
i love old patent drawings
― cutty, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago)
Silly man forgot the spokes :(
― NickB, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 22:12 (seventeen years ago)
Is that for reals? Awesome! There is nothing new under the sun. But was it built? Why didn't it take off? Too expensive to manufacture and lack of demand perhaps...
― ledge, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago)
nobody is making sus with the entire drive train unsuspended any more, are they? wasn't that like the mania of 1995?
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago)
Wow, imagine the amount of stress on the ONE point where the chainrings actually connected to the frame.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 03:41 (seventeen years ago)
You should've been an engineer!
― dan m, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 05:37 (seventeen years ago)
Too many numbers.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 14:40 (seventeen years ago)
looking agin, its not a urt bike as i thot, its a swing parallelogram with the bb on the swingarm. someone build this plz
ze clazzic urt:
http://www.mtbtr.com/uploads/498Z3.JPG
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago)
http://i1.tinypic.com/8242r1d.gif
Clipless pedal, 1895. Twist to unlock, has float.
― ledge, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago)
Wow I was so OTM about putting cleats on fancy ladies' shoes.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago)
women were not allowed to ride bikes then
― cutty, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago)
Sure they were. Everyone just suspected them of getting off on it.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago)
Literally, metaphorically, take your pick.
Err yikes, swastika cleats!
― NickB, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 23:48 (seventeen years ago)
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/PopularMechanics/7-1936/lrg_bicycle_wheel.jpg
― NickB, Thursday, 15 November 2007 14:05 (seventeen years ago)
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/ww1/images/bike03.jpg
― Mark C, Saturday, 17 November 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago)