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When did it finally occur to someone that slots in the front forks would make it a whole lot easier to put the wheels on? I've never seen a date for this.
I was just at a bike show with bikes from 1890s-1920 and not a single one was slotted; one of the experts there said he thought they started doing it pretty close to 1930. It's wild that a company thought to do it in 1897 and no one else copied the idea for 30 years!
I was just at a bike show with bikes from 1890s-1920 and not a single one was slotted; one of the experts there said he thought they started doing it pretty close to 1930. It's wild that a company thought to do it in 1897 and no one else copied the idea for 30 years!
The following bicycles in my collection have slotted front forks:
1891 New Mail cushion tire safety
1892 Common Sense pneumatic safety
1892 Monarch pneumatic safety
1893 Winton Men pneumatic safety
1893 Winton Women pneumatic safety
1894 Crescent Men pneumatic safety
1894 Crescent Women pneumatic safety
All of my other bicycles are pre-1908 and do not have slotted front forks.
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