Hello List,
i'm only an infrequent reader so i hope this isn't a faq; couldn't find anything in the archive.
German Cycling magazine current issue has a feature about one of their writers trying to climb the "ballon d'alsace" on a bicycle from 1898. the bicycle is a "Permanenz" built in Germany, Dresden until 1905. it has one "block" brake where a ruber block ets pressed onto the front tire. Pictures from 1910 already show bikes equipped with rim brakes. Does anybody know when these got invented/first used on bicacles? who made them?
Martin Appel,
Munich, Germany