Flying Gate

[velofrog]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174521515750

 

[Takingabreak]

Is there a purpose to that design ? Something that gave a performance or weight advantage compared to other bikes at the time?

 

[Rod_Saetan]

Is there a purpose to that design ? Something that gave a performance or weight advantage compared to other bikes at the time?

Really great little film about the bike and the new iteration here:

https://www.pedalpedlar.co.uk/blogs...ate-a-british-classic-through-the-generations

 

[Takingabreak]

thanks, good film and article there. I'd seen tandems with curved seat tubes to shorten the wheelbase but had never twigged that was why the Flying Gate was designed that way.

 

[Midlife]

Also known as a Baines Birdcage lol