Re: [CR] Bowden Spacelander ?!?

Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:27:28 -0400
From: Marcus Coles <marcoles@ody.ca>
To: CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR] Bowden Spacelander ?!?

Alan Lloyd wrote:
> They have one at the Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen, Ohio ...
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/26361775@N02/2557112125/in/set-72157605540572259/
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/26361775@N02/2557112711/in/set-72157605540572259/
>
> Although the Spacelander was designed in the 1940s I don't think they managed to start manafacturing them until the 1960s, by which time they'd missed the boat?
>
> Alan Lloyd
> Schaumburg, Illinois, USA
> Not quite what I would consider a vintage lightweight, but definitely an interesting dead branch on the bicycle tree.

KOM (Keeper of the Molds) http://www.nostalgiamerchants.com/bowden.html

Marcus Coles
London, Ontario, Canada