1869 boneshaker project
I'm building a velocipede tricycle. Here's the story so far...
I'm designing one which will look like this.
I'll use it to display my stereoscopes and cycling stereoviews, to illustrate how photography and bicycles evolved together
Here's the parts, still not arrived from France (my friend will deliver it when he comes over to Brighton for the Pioneer Run on 18th March).
We have a good local wheelwright, who has done velocipede wheels before, and plenty of local antique shops for a Victorian cabinet to sit over the rear wheels.
I bought this velocipede to use as a pattern for parts (wheels, handlebars, spring, moustache, brakes etc) and then I'll resell that one
Here's a trike I know, which I've used as a guide.
Not sure when this one was made, but not 1869.
Trike conversion no damage to velocipede; can be converted back to 2-wheeler