Shafted
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Davey Crockett
They've been around almost forever in one incarnation or another
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RicodJour
> ar...@hotmail.com writes:
>
> > Chainless bicycles:
> > http://www.dynamicbicycles.com/
> >
> > As seen on Fox and Friends!
> >
>
> They've been around almost forever in one incarnation or another
Wait, you mean you can use a wheel to drive another wheel?! Get out of
town!
R
B. Lafferty
"Davey Crockett" <davey_c...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> ar...@hotmail.com writes:
>
>> Chainless bicycles:
>> http://www.dynamicbicycles.com/
>>
>> As seen on Fox and Friends!
>>
>
> They've been around almost forever in one incarnation or another
IIRC, Major Taylor did a fair amount of racing on one.
Davey Crockett
He won a World Championship on a shaft drive in 1899 and rode an Orion [???]
bike, shaft drive equipped, for ages, most probably because he was paid to
Another innovation he popularized, or at least gave his name to, was
the Major Taylor stem. It had a moveable rail so that the "reach" could
be adjusted to suit the rider or the particular event he happened to be
riding. Thay were quite popular after the war although I never had one
myself. I thought they were both dangerous and ridiculous looking and
couldn't afford one anyway.
I did get hooked on that equally ridiculous Girardengo crank set
though, but after breaking three right hand cranks in a week, went
back to the good old Campag steel crank
Alex Rodriguez
ar...@hotmail.com says...
>Chainless bicycles:
>http://www.dynamicbicycles.com/
Most of the advanatages, over a chain driven bicycle, that they list are all
a function of the Nexus hub they use. You can run this hub with a chain.
Also, a well lubed and adjusted chain if more efficient than their shaft drive.
It is also substantially lighter.
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Alex
rick-...@uiowa.edu
Orient bikes and ads for Orient bikes. They used to make pacers
(chain drive) for the racers in Taylors day. Tandems, triples, quads,
etc up to 10. There is an Orient at the Henry Ford Museum in
Michigan. I've seen a classic old photo of a pyramid of Orient bikes.
Pretty cool.
http://www.colcohist-gensoc.org/Images/TenSeaterOriten.jpg
http://www.gtgtandems.com/images/orient.html
"1896 Orient "Oriten" 10-Man Bicycle
This one-of-a-kind 10-passenger bicycle was built in 1896 by the Orient
Bicycle Company as a public relations tool. The 23-foot-long, 305-pound
bike was featured at local bicycle meets and could reach speeds of 45
mph; however, like most bikes of the 1890s, the Oriten had no brakes or
gears. The only surviving Oriten is on display in Henry Ford Museum."
http://www.statnekov.com/motorcycles/lives1.html
One of the first to enter the business was a Waltham, Massachusetts
company which produced a popular brand of bicycle called the "Orient."
Charles H. Metz, president and inventive genius of the Waltham
enterprise, began his experiments in 1898, concocting a motorized
tandem for the purpose of pacing his team of bicycle racers.
Encouraged to increase their speed by the motorized "training machine,"
the Orient team was successful, and company sales increased
accordingly.
Davey Crockett
> I think the name you are thinking of is Orient. I've seen a few old
> Orient bikes and ads for Orient bikes. They used to make pacers
> (chain drive) for the racers in Taylors day. Tandems, triples, quads,
> etc up to 10. There is an Orient at the Henry Ford Museum in
> Michigan. I've seen a classic old photo of a pyramid of Orient bikes.
> Pretty cool.
>
> http://www.colcohist-gensoc.org/Images/TenSeaterOriten.jpg
I just love the way the chainrings increase in size from the tiny one
the pilot has to the monster clanger the stoker is turning over