O frumusețe! Iertare îmi fie că am păcătuit poftind la lucru omului!

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Finally my Rover is finished! Certainly one of the most significant bicycles in history, The Rover Safety Bicycle designed by John Kemp Starley ‘set the fashion to the world’ in 1885, being the first practical rear drive safety bicycle. This example, frame number 1370, is from 1887. It is a very imposing machine with a 36 inch front wheel/30 inch rear, and 27 inch handlebars!

It spent the past 50 years or so in a museum in Ireland in a sadly neglected state. Whilst I did much of the work to the machine, I was unable to tackle some of the engineering challenges to get it back on the road, so it went to acknowledged Rover expert Tony Huntington. He made a number of missing parts to…

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3 Responses to

  1. Avatarul lui Ovi Ovi spune:

    Uau 😀 Ce frumueste ! Ma gandesc oare ce greutate are? Pare facuta …adica turnata din fonta 🙂
    Oricum, e o opera de arta 🙂

  2. Avatarul lui szromulus romuluss spune:

    Da, este o frumusete, iar cand o faci cu mainile tale ai o satisfactie greu de descris in cuvinte, te simti un mic Da Vinci 🙂

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