Comments on: Friday links http://bicycledesign.net/2007/03/friday-links/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=friday-links The blog about industrial design in the bike industry Wed, 22 May 2013 12:29:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: James http://bicycledesign.net/2007/03/friday-links/comment-page-1/#comment-598 James Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:18:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2007/03/friday-links/#comment-598 Yep, Carlton, good point and thanks for that link. Most everything that we think of as new has at least been tried before. I absolutely love looking though Archibald Sharp’s classic book from the late 1800s. That was definitely an innovative time for the bicycle industry.

Here is an old post about it.

http://bicycledesign.blogspot.com/2005/11/whats-old-is-new-again.html

]]> By: Carlton http://bicycledesign.net/2007/03/friday-links/comment-page-1/#comment-597 Carlton Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:02:00 +0000 http://bicycledesign.net/2007/03/friday-links/#comment-597 Thanks, James. I like all the integrated stuff but, of course, it’s not new.

Check out the lower diagram at this link http://rebour.pbwiki.com/January1949

It’s by famed cycling illustrator Daniel Rebour and shows an integrated handlebar and lamp.

In a recent BikeBiz mag I carried a load of bike patents from the 1890s which looked a lot like modern day ‘innovation’s but most of these patent drawings never made it into real life. The Rebour drawings are different: they are of commercially produced accessories.

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