Jan Heine wrote:
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> Does anybody know of similar influences of cars on bicycles in Britain
> or Italy? The Bentley Boys don't seem to have had much interest in
> bicycles... Perhaps they could have learned from cycle makers how to
> make sturdy machines that don't weigh two tons! (Nothing against vintage
> Bentleys, there are marvellous machines.)
>
Jan, you really should get out more, if you can ask such a question without mentioning Moulton ;)
Dr Moulton, designer of the rubber suspension of the BMC mini, started building the original Moulton with the support of Dunlop and BMC, and grew to be the second? largest bikeproducer in the UK in a few years.
Moulton did a special version of the NS for Bentley a few years back -- mvg
Marten Gerritsen
Kiel Windeweer
Netherlands