[CR]Re: Wood frame vintage lightweight bikes?

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:48:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Alan Lloyd" <adl2k@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <MONKEYFOODQTyfPefLJ00000334@monkeyfood.nt.phred.org>
Subject: [CR]Re: Wood frame vintage lightweight bikes?

Picture of hickory bikes, circa 1897 & 1898, at the Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen, Ohio.

http://tinyurl.com/53hl2y

There was also an Italian-made wooden bike from around the 1939-45 World War shown on the UK's Antiques Road Show years ago, probably built because of the shortage of available metal?

http://tinyurl.com/3tvu6e

Alan Lloyd
Schaumburg, Illinois, U.S.A.