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On Sunday, March 3, 2019 at 3:12:12 PM UTC-6, Frank Krygowski wrote:
New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) currently features an exhibition
called "The Value of Good Design." See

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5032

Unfortunately, they include the 1960's Spacelander bicycle as an example
of good design! See
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibi...image_index=34

I took one for a brief test ride many years ago. MoMA's standards are
certainly far different from mine. It's hard to imagine a heavier,
clumsier rattletrap of a bike. Heck, I'd prefer that Fiat 500!

Frank, you might have discovered the Spacelander bicycle hoax the Like a
Tesla car, that bike never was destygneered to be transported into space --
probably not even as ballast.

But then, the rest of the exhibition seems to glorify the 1950s and
1960s as an era of "good design." Weird.

Good financial design: Glorify popularly admired, but mildly exotic stuff
from the era of your sponsors' youth that they didn't actually have to use /
suffer from actually using.

Frank, you rode the moon bike? Tell us how that came about.

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