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Allison Jordan

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Captain William Gill – Explorer and Spy

Tony Hadland’s great-great uncle, Captain William Gill, inherited a fortune and spent it on exploration. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical...

2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.     Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This...

The rarely seen Moulton Stowaway joint that looks like a hinge

Alex Moulton hated the idea that his bicycles would be considered as folding bicycles. He always made the point that his aim was to...

Vic Nicholson – more wins on the Moulton than any other rider

In 1965, Vic Nicholson won 15 major time trials on the Moulton bicycle, was placed in 9 others and won the Reading Track League....

My bibliography updated

I’ve updated my bibliography. This follows the publication of the fourth edition of Mike Burrows’ book Bicycle Design: towards the perfect machine (which I edited and...

Sturmey’s right-hand ball rings: are you losing the thread?

Some instructions for disassembling Sturmey-Archer gears include a mysterious statement such as this: “Next, unscrew the right-hand ball ring but because it has a two-start...

A New Class of Cyclists: Banham’s Bicycle and the Two-wheeled World it didn’t Create

Bruce D Epperson is, among other things, an eminent American cycle historian. His paper ‘A New Class of Cyclist: Banham’s Bicycle and the Two-wheeled...

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