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Vietnam war: reinforced bikes to carry artillery?
Recently I've read a couple of book about the
Vietnam war(s) and more than once I've read that the Vietnamese for transport during their anti-colonial and independence struggle used "reinforced bikes" ("förstärkta" in Swedish which is either "reinforced" or "amplified", I think). On such bikes they would carry all but everything, including big guns, like artillery, to bombard the French and the Americans. I wonder what they mean exactly by "reinforced"? Was that something the guerillas did provisionally in their cave workshops or did the reinforcement happen in factories in China or someplace else? And how do you reinforce a bike to carry an anti-aircraft gun? Put on an extra top tube and give it a 40-spoke rear wheel? And do you actually ride this bike, or more likely probably you just walk by its side with support wheels, pushing it forward until dead tired when the next guy takes by? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 |
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