Ron, sorry, but Patrick is correct. Military contracts were not the impetus
of the invention of the boneshaker, of the ordinary, of the safety cycle,
or of the pneumatic tire. Herlihy is an excellent history of 19th Century
bicycle development from an author well-versed in the primary sources.
Patrick,
I recently went to the Soma New Express tire in 700 X 32, and have found it
to be an exceptionally smooth-running tire. Soma lists a 26 x 1.25 version
in stock. The difference in suppleness of ride between this tire and a
Pasela TG is quite obvious to me. The bike feels like a
Anton Tutter wrote:
I would love to read BikeSnobNYC's take on of all this.
I expect he has run into this sort of reaction before.
BSNYC might allow for the possibility it is written tongue-in-cheek, just
as he writes. He even may be sufficiently perceptive to think, Small group
of
