Tag: transmission
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19th century innovation: The Pony Star
A recent Road Bike Rider newsletter featured a link to String Bike, “a Hungarian-made bike that uses cabling (string) instead of a chain as its propulsion mechanism.” You can read more about the concept, and see an animated video on the website. Those of you who are familiar with Archibald Sharp’s book, Bicycles and Tricycles,…
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Cable drive transmission
Some of you may recognize this chainless bicycle design. The bike received a lot of press coverage when it was new in the early 80s and was even featured on Good Morning America at one point. The bike’s designer, Steven Tidcomb, sent me a link to a page on his website, which provides some historical…
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Dwell, the Trailcart, and a challenge
I like to mention bike content in general design magazines when I see it, so I want to point you to a Dwell blog post about handmade bicycles. The post dates back to February, but it was new to me when I discovered it today, so I assume some of you missed it as well.…
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Links to pass along
I am still quite busy catching up from last week, so it will take me a while to get through all of the blog related messages in my Gmail account. For now though, I want to quickly pass along just a few links that were sent by readers while I was away. Jason sent me…