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Flying Pigeon [photos]
Here is one Flying Pigeon I recently observed
in the wild during an excursion of Asian ornithology. Compared to a Swedish or Norwegian standard bike from the same period of bicycle history, the Chinese have a lot of stays and small crutches everywhere, all bolted. The steel frame seems to be similar in style tho. The Chinese must have been very proud of their bike because it says "Flying Pigeon" everywhere, on the saddle (both in English and Chinese), on the chainguard, even on the rack! They say it is the "all-steel bicycle". I wonder what that is supposed to communicate tho, perhaps some comparison to earlier domestic bikes? The biggest qualitative differences seems to be 1) the rear hub, that doesn't have a coaster brake, and 2) the very interesting front and rear brakes! Because the bike has old-school V-rims, with a very little side area where a hand brake of the kind we are used to would squeeze (e.g., a side pull), instead the brakes are two big shackles, with the pads pointing upwards, and instead of squeezing the walls with mechanically moving parts, the whole thing is simply pulled upwards until it makes contact with the rim! Perhaps this requires more force, which is why instead of wires there are huge rods to drive the motion. Notice also that the rear brake is placed below the chainstays. The Flying Pigeon: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/bike/pigeon/front.jpg http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/bike/pigeon/hub.jpg http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/bike/...rear-brake.jpg And one of ours, for comparison: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/bike/pigeon/hermes.jpg -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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