Comments on: What’s old is new again

By: Old bike patents | Bicycle Design

Old bike patents | Bicycle Design — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:37:37 +0000

[...] few months ago, I linked to Bob Shaver’s Patent Pending blog in one of my posts. For those of you who missed it, the bicycle technology section of Bob’s site is definitely worth [...]

By: Smart Move: Bicycles from the Embacher Collection | Bicycle Design

Smart Move: Bicycles from the Embacher Collection | Bicycle Design — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:32:36 +0000

[...] at home. Some of you may even remember when I mentioned a few of my favorites some time ago in a post about old bikes. Well, now I have a new book to add to that list of favorites- Smart Move: Bicycles from the [...]

By: James

James — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:10:00 +0000

Thanks for the link Walter. Your right I left out folding bikes. Recumbents too.

If you think "bicycling Science has a lot of math, wait until you check out "Bicycles and Tricycles". It definitely was not written in layman's terms, but it is a great piece of history.

By: bikefridaywalter

bikefridaywalter — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:13:00 +0000

remember, folding bikes are old school, too.

that page has some pithy info you might like, too, james. and thanks for the suggestion. as a "bicycling science" owner, i'm excited to get a copy of this book.

interesting aside: the orb has an album with the same name as the book.