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Just shows, the cycle industry is truly cyclical. 🙂
1893 Brighton to London to Brighton record holder, Tessie Reynolds
No idea how she can ride that as Fabien Barel and pinkbike say it's impossible due to the instability caused by the grips being behind the steering axis.
Shame as that is a cool bike.
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/exploring-the-relationship-between-handlebar-vs-stem-length.html
Is that #16 Brant?
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No idea how she can ride that as Fabien Barel and pinkbike say it’s impossible due to the instability caused by the grips being behind the steering axis....
Well she was only 15, so she probably didn't know that it was impossible. 🙂
And he has obviously never ridden an old British roadster.
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Did no one tell her you need an FTP of at least <-------------this-----------> much
No idea how she can ride that as Fabien Barel and pinkbike say it’s impossible due to the instability caused by the grips being behind the steering axis.
He didn't actually say "impossible", just that it would put you into the danger zone.
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He didn’t actually say “impossible”, just that it would put you into the danger zone.
But it's still bollocks because you cannot take one part of the steering system in isolation and say it must be so, it's all interdependent. HA, offset, handlebar leverage, wheelbase, and importantly where the weight is centred.
And then once you've got all that worked out perfectly, some kid zooms by on a unicycle and blows all the theories out of the water.
I keep spotting more and more cool things in that photo.
Excuse my ignorance, but does that bike have brakes or was it all fixed gear in those days?
Almost certainly fixed at that date.
And 8hrs 30 mins to do 120 miles on what would have been mainly gravel roads.
Not bad for a young lass.
That bike looks great. Long stems always feel a bit wrong to me. Anything over 90mm and I start getting suspicious.
It may be the photo but that spoke lacing is doing my head in...
Fashionable differentiated wheel sizes too.
Great. That's work tonight put paid to...
Try this:
https://proteanpaper.com/scart_results.cgi?comp=howiebik&framed=0&part=A-L-Saf.3%201900c%2005&scat=1&scatord=desc&scatall=no&skey=norm&srkeyall=&srkeywords=&srcateg=000000000000000156
and imagine sell a lady bicycle called the Gays Special Witch.
Blimey look at Mrs R S Lovelace and her different wheel size bike:
https://proteanpaper.com/scart_results.cgi?comp=howiebik&framed=0&part=A-L-Saf.4%201888c%2003&scat=1&scatord=desc&scatall=no&skey=norm&srkeyall=&srkeywords=&srcateg=000000000000000156
Check out this sweet ride…
That looks a lot like it might kill you
Tessie and her bike were well ahead of the curve were they not?!
She must have been a force to be reckoned with and the bike looks amazingly current and cool in many ways too.👍
Nice find epic.
But did she take it over hardknott .....or would that have been too macho for stw to accept.
But it’s still bollocks
Sure is, but if you call it "The Danger Zone", you can fantasize about being as cool as Tom Cruise while you bomb down a mountain with crap 80s rock anthems playing in your head.
eddiebay - here's the pics.
The web site has a cunning "nothing.gif" to stop people linking to it.
"Cycling" magazine of the time wrote this about Tessies record:
Every wheelman who has managed to retain a belief in the innate modesty and sense of becomingness in the opposite sex, will hear with real pain, not unmixed with disgust, of what we will call a lamentable incident that took place on the Brighton road early last Sunday"
I'm guessing they were the Daily Mail of the day....
Poopscoop
“Cycling” magazine of the time wrote this about Tessies record...
I’m guessing they were the Daily Mail of the day….
30 years later it was the 1920s - they must have self-combusted at all those ankles and exposed knees. 🙂
BTW got a date for that quote? I was going to research the comments and a date will save me ploughing through a few volumes of 'Cycling'.
BTW got a date for that quote?
Mogg, last week.
Forget short stems, get Mrs Lovelace and her reversed stem!