Engineering:Swing Bike
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The Swing Bike is a brand of bicycle which allowed for steering at both the front wheel and the rear wheel.[1][2] The design was patented by Ralph Belden in 1974,[3] brought to market in 1975, and discontinued by 1978.[4] A swingbike or swing bike (common noun) has been genericized to come to mean any bike with a second steering axis in front of the saddle.[5][6] A new bicycle by the same name has been launched by Americas Bike Co. in San Diego, California.[7]
The original Swing Bike was in the wheelie bike style,[8] and the Swing Bike company also offered a normally-steered BMX bike in 1977.[9] An early working name for the Swing Bike as Pivicycle.[10]
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References
- ↑ "Swing Bike (original advertisement)". Boys' Life. August 1976. http://swingbike.byethost24.com/bobhufford/swingbig.jpg. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
- ↑ "The Swing Bike Rider". 2012. http://swingbikerider.com/. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
- ↑ "United States Patent #3,801,130: BICYCLE WITH PIVOTABLE REAR WHEEL". http://swingbike.byethost24.com/bobhufford/swingpat.html. Retrieved 2012-07-19. "A two wheeled, rider propelled vehicle having both wheels pivotably mounted upon a medial principal frame."
- ↑ Bob Hufford (July 11, 2010). "Swing Bike: The Wackiest Thing on Two Wheels". http://swingbike.byethost24.com/bobhufford/swing.html. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
- ↑ Stephen Spillman (July 14, 2012). "Hockley County celebrates Settlers Day". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. http://lubbockonline.com/regional/2012-07-14/hockley-county-celebrates-settlers-day#.UAhG0LQS218. Retrieved 2012-07-19. "Kyle Drennan rides his swing bike in the Hockley County Celebration parade in Levelland Saturday."
- ↑ "Swing bike". Bicycle Forest. http://www.bikeforest.com/homebuild18.php. Retrieved 2012-07-19. "This is George Aitken riding his swing bike in the Canada Day parade in Cambridge, Ontario."
- ↑ Jerry Hirsch (December 13, 2007). "Wheels for swingers". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/13/business/fi-swingbike13. Retrieved 2012-07-19. "Americas Bike Co. is banking on its hinged design to catch on with riders."
- ↑ "Swing Bike Brochure". http://swingbike.byethost24.com/bobhufford/swbroch.html. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
- ↑ "Swing Bike BMX Bike". http://swingbike.byethost24.com/bobhufford/swbmx.html. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
- ↑ "Early Swing Bike (Pivicycle) Magazine Reference!". American Bicyclist and Motorcyclist. 1971. http://swingbike.byethost24.com/bobhufford/earlymagref.html. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
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