Cycling Shorts: Richter’s Raketenrad
Sometimes pedal power just isn’t enough, which has led to various attempts at adding extra oomph to the relatively low, if efficient, power output achieved with human muscle and chains … Continue reading
December 17, 2015 · 1 Comment
Transferable Technology: From the Bicycle to the Aeroplane and the Car
Before Orville and Wilbur Wright gained fame as the first people to make a controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight they owned and ran a bicycle repair, rental and sales … Continue reading
December 10, 2015 · 5 Comments
Cycling Shorts: The Peace Race, 1974
This photograph of the West German cycling team was taken on the Karl Marx Allee, East Berlin’s monumental socialist boulevard, during the 1975 edition of the Peace Race. It captures … Continue reading
December 3, 2015 · 2 Comments
Cycling History 