A contempo Road Bike Addition newsletter featured a articulation to Cord Bike, “a Hungarian-made bike that uses cabling (string) instead of a alternation as its propulsion mechanism.” You can apprehend added about the concept, and see an activated video on the website.
Those of you who are accustomed with Archibald Sharp’s book, Bicycles and Tricycles, apperceive that another transmissions accept been about as continued as the bike itself. I tweeted a articulation to the Cord Bike back I aboriginal saw it, and Binch Shin (@dynafeel on Twitter) was quick to acknowledgment with this old “Pony Star” apparent by William S. Kelley. The about-face penny-farthing architecture Pony Star was alien in 1880 to break the attack botheration that was accepted with old aerial wheelers. Because it could not use absolute drive due to the antipodal addition position, the bike relied on levers and covering straps to drive the rear wheel. As Old Spokes Home credibility out, “both levers could be depressed accompanying for a access of speed.”
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Check out added pictures of an 1889 42” Pony Star at Old Spokes Home. While you are there, browse about the arcade to see abounding added absorbing bikes in their collection, from the mid 19th aeon velocipedes to the mid 80s Fat Chance. Great stuff! Now I appetite to get up to Vermont to analysis this abode out.
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