A Brief History of Human Powered Transportation |
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Light-weight materials had been tried before the advent of artificial composites. The photograph shows an 1897 bike made from bamboo - a natural composite material. The tubular bamboo sections were joined using metal lugs, a technique still employed in some carbon fiber-epoxy composite bikes. |
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From:
Pryor Dodge, "The Bicycle," Flammarion (1996) |
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