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Francis Beidler was born in Chicago in 1854. [2] With partner Benjamin F. Ferguson, he was the co-founder and owner of the Santee River Cypress Lumber Company.Starting in 1881, the Santee Cypress Company purchased 165,000 acres (67,000 ha) of land in central South Carolina. [3]
Tom Ritchey (born 1956) is an American bicycle frame builder, Category 1 racer, fabricator, designer, and founder of Ritchey Design. [1] Ritchey is a US pioneer [ citation needed ] in modern frame building and the first production mountain bike builder/manufacturer in the history of the sport.
Between these two wishbone control arms, the wheel hubs connect to a rigid ‘push rod’. Here, as the wheels move latitudinally, this rod will push upwards against an oscillating rocker arm, creating a ‘see-sawing’ motion that transfers latitudinal forces from the ground into longitudinal forces inwards towards the chassis. [7]
Cooper began building frames when he was 15, [4] starting in 1947 [5] when he began a full apprenticeship at A.S. Gillott Cycles, London, England. [6] He learned his craft from frame builders in England, most notably Jim Collier and Bill Philbrook. [6]
The 'diamond' frame's central, horizontal top bar forces the rider to swing a leg over the bicycle's seat. A Triumph step-through, ladies', or open frame Dursley Pedersen bicycle circa 1910 A penny-farthing photographed in the Škoda Auto Museum in the Czech Republic A Brompton folding bicycle Bicycle in Victorian Plymouth, England, with a predecessor of the Starley diamond-frame A cantilever ...
Ross Shafer founded Salsa Cycles in the early 1980s. [4] [5] The company initially focused on producing bicycle frames and custom stems. [6]In 1997, the brand was acquired by Minnesota-based Quality Bicycle Products, which transitioned from a wholesale bike-parts distributor to a bike-brand conglomerate, with a focus on biking in climates with cold winters.
The bamboo frame started as a stunt in 1996. [7] Calfee Design also won best tandem award at the 2010 North American Handmade Bike Show with a carbon fiber 21 pound tandem Dragonfly bike. Calfee also works on other projects, including a motorcycle that converts to a gyrocopter, a roadable aircraft. [8] Calfee Design manufactures a bamboo ...
In 1992 Cannondale introduced the 2.8 series frame based on CAD (computer aided design) and finite element analysis to make a frame weighing only 2.8 lbs. The 2.8 series featured a tapered large diameter down tube, double-offset bottom-bracket cluster, ovalized top-tube, and double-butted seat tube to achieve the weight reduction.