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Thanks for the bent photos

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Recumbentman Started conversation May 30, 2005

Yes, phone cameras . . . but I could (just) read the extraordinary claim: that bents were invented in the 30s. They are one of those good ideas that get reinvented frequently.

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Thanks for the bent photos

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Edward the Bonobo - Gone. Posted May 31, 2005

You're welcome.

What struck me was that (to my uneducated eye), the Grubb didn't look very different to the modern models I've seen. Plus ca change...

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Thanks for the bent photos

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Recumbentman Posted May 31, 2005

It looks quite like Mochet's Vélocar of the twenties/early thirties which caused the stir described in http://www.bikefix.co.uk/forbidden.html

My own is a short-wheelbase PDQ: http://www.bikefix.co.uk/pdq.html

It's nippy, and I'm awful fond of it.

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