1935 recumbent photo

"Bill B" skrev...

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fellow bentheads here is one that I have not seen.The 1935 Moller Autocycle has automobile type
steering wheel and leading link front suspension. way cool!!!!!! check it out at---
recumbent.bikeriders.comgallery.htmlOpen ↗ anybody know the history of this bike.Where made?
How long was it in production? etc etc

Danish. The Recumbent Bicycle claims only 6 were made. I tried one at the bicycle museum in Glumsø
here in Denmark. sundby-cykler.dkcykelmuseumOpen ↗ (No email alas. They had more info on it.)
Not very comfortable and the steering takes some getting used to. There was a lot of play in the
u-joint. Tricky balance too. I much preferred the contemporary "Sofacykel" although it was more or
less a "stretched" traditional DF.

Mikael

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fellow bentheads here is one that I have not seen.The 1935 Moller Autocycle has automobile type
steering wheel and leading link front suspension. way cool!!!!!! check it out at---
recumbent.bikeriders.comgallery.htmlOpen ↗ anybody know the history of this bike.Where made?
How long was it in production? etc etc

It is an early Giant Revive!

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Ian

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Ian said:

Bill B scribed with passion and wit:

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fellow bentheads

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Ian

I've been in western Wyoming since 1993. Good winters we have snow above the barbed wire fences
but highways are cleaned down to asphalt and sanded if hard packed snow won't clear off. Salt
is verboten!

I've pedaled my ASSets off so long as highway is clear and puddles avoidable during spring thaw.

Due to extreme muscle loss from ski bag impacts on legs at former airport job I converted to BikeE
winter of 2002 with limited success. Some muscle is rebuilding with intake of Shaklee Instant
Protein but balance still suffers.

Mother's Trike looking more and more like way for me to go. Article came out in 1983 edition of
magazine and claimed construction cost of 65$ [1983, mind you] using EMT [the tubing which carries
house wiring in USA] but I'm choosing smallest diameter auto exhaust pipe to carry my 6'4", 230
pound frame.

Construction article on Mother Earth News 2F1R home-brew trike with specs, parts list and drawings
is available online at the Mother Earth News web site.

Here's the link:

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Hi, Bill, are you sure that isn't a fender mount that just 'looks' like leading link front
suspension?

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Lewis.

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fellow bentheads here is one that I have not seen.The 1935 Moller Autocycle has automobile type
steering wheel and leading link front suspension. way cool!!!!!! check it out at---
recumbent.bikeriders.comgallery.htmlOpen ↗ anybody know the history of this bike.Where made?
How long was it in production? etc etc

"Lewis Campbell" skrev...

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Hi, Bill, are you sure that isn't a fender mount that just 'looks' like leading link front
suspension?

Actually I think its springs that pulls the wheel back towards the centre position. Not sure the one
I tried had them which might account for the instability. (If we are talking the horisontal ones at
seatheight on steering assembly.) The bike was not suspended in any way.

Mikael

Hi Lewis. Could be just a look but to me it looks like the forks are just behind the front axel and
the heavy black ?? leading linkage?? can be seen going back to the upper fork area [well below the
fender]. Just looks kind of like leading link to me:-). By the way I did a search on Moller and no
bike was found but a very cool aero-car was.Two passengers .four ducted fans and a top speed of over
350 at a altitude of 28,000ft

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Hi, Bill, are you sure that isn't a fender mount that just 'looks' like leading link front
suspension?

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Lewis.

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fellow bentheads here is one that I have not seen.The 1935 Moller Autocycle has automobile type
steering wheel and leading link front suspension. way cool!!!!!! check it out at---
recumbent.bikeriders.comgallery.htmlOpen ↗ anybody know the history of this bike.Where
made? How long was it in production? etc etc

"Mikael Seierup" skrev...

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"Lewis Campbell" skrev...

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Hi, Bill, are you sure that isn't a fender mount that just 'looks' like leading link front
suspension?

Actually I think its springs that pulls the wheel back towards the centre position. Not sure the
one I tried had them which might account for the instability. (If we are talking the horisontal
ones at seatheight on steering assembly.) The bike was not suspended in any way.

And the wheels don't look original. They are too small. Chainguard also looks like a later addition
if you compare with the picture on page 21 of The Recumbent Bicycle.

M

Sometimes known as the Triumph-Moller, IIRC. Someone brought one to a BHPC race meeting a few years
back; it may have crept out of the Mark Hall Museum in Harlow when their backs were turned...

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Guess I'm talking to myself here. ;-) No, no... don't mind me guys. I just rode one of the bleeding
things. ;o)

(Oh well...back to making the rear wheel fit the VK2 with an S-Licks on. Latest cunning plan
involves moving the brake a bit forward on the frame. Hopefully 4-5 mm will do the trick.)

Mikael