| Author | Message | ||
     Reepicheep |
Check out the date on this patent, and look at the shape of the frame. The truth was out there!  | ||
| Spiderman |
The patenet was applied for in 89 it wasn;t approved till 90. So it goes even further back in the way back machine. Run a search on Erik's name in the patent files you will find a lot of the cool stuff he has invented. His aluminium, steel laminated brake rotors. The cooling design on the XB's Pedal Bike frames and suspension. Braking systems and the list goes on! He is closing in on Thomas Edisons record Quick!!! | ||
| Court |
It gets better. There were many ideas conceived long before the resources to make them happen materialized. | ||
| Spiderman |
heck yeah. COuld you imagine what the Bikes would look like now if Erik had the fundage back then! | ||
| Geoffg |
Hmmm...I'm attaching a pic of a 1932 MGC N3BR--hard to see from the pic, but it consists of a cast aluminum combination fuel tank/frame backbone, tied to the cast aluminum engine sump with steel crossmembers. The steering head is part of the tank/frame casting. Apparently, this bike handled extremely well compared to other bikes of it's time, but it was expensive and difficult to manufacture (only two were ever completed). The engine was a British JAP 500 single, which looks like it had a separate cam for each pushrod... Nothing new under the sun, eh?  (BTW, I got the info from "The Art of the Motorcycle" book, which has a much better photo of it.  | ||
| Nedwreck |
http://tinyurl.com/6thxn Bob |
