[CR] Cycling Photographs & Selbach Accident

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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:56:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Michael Butler" <pariscycles@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: [CR] Cycling Photographs & Selbach Accident
To: CR Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Here is a very interesting site which I am sure you will all find fascinating. There is a welded Grubb recumbent, Buckley Brothers ultra lightweight and lots more. Someone was asking how Maurice Selbach was killed? What actually happened is that he didn't come off on the tram tracks but he dropped his front wheel into the tramways centre conduit he couldn't get his wheels out and was hit my a lorry. He was on sprints. You can clearly see the central conduit of the tramway in the picture of Westminster Bridge with the Houses of Parliament, coincidentally this is very close to the actual spot that he was killed at, just on the south side of this famous bridge. Talking of Selbachs a guy on ebay is selling an original advert from a 1932 Cycling magazine, this features the then brand new and revolutionary Selbach USWB tandem with curved stockers seat tube. http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10432425&wwwflag=3&imagepos=19

Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.