Bicycles to Motorcycles, Ships, and Planes

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"In the earliest years it was usually a progressive maker of bicycles who decided to branch out into motorcycle or auto making. People living in that time were getting used to revolutions – sailing ships giving way to steam, the expansion of railroad networks, machine tools, the driving of miles-long tunnels through solid rock."

Kevin Cameron provides another slightly quantish discussion of the appeal bicycles had for backyard mechanics and engineers over a century ago.

Bicycles were also the mother of the airplane (Wright Brothers) and were the first choice of imaginative dreamers Charles Lindbergh and James Doolittle, who all later stepped up to motorcycles and then aircraft, and finally ballistic missiles and rocketry through Robert Goddard and W. Von Braun.

 

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Gentlemen,

Kevin Cameron is the greatest moto-tech writer alive and he has been for decades. I am dreading his fast approaching retirement. All of his books and articles in Cycle World are brilliant. Able to make tech fun, understandable, and entertaining, he combines science and history on an amazingly wide variety of topics from tire development to chassis flex, and metallurgy to thermodynamics. What a great man.

Chip

 

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Gentlemen,

Kevin Cameron is the greatest moto-tech writer alive and he has been for decades. I am dreading his fast approaching retirement. All of his books and articles in Cycle World are brilliant. Able to make tech fun, understandable, and entertaining, he combines science and history on an amazingly wide variety of topics from tire development to chassis flex, and metallurgy to thermodynamics. What a great man.

Chip

Hear, hear!

 

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Gentlemen,

Kevin Cameron is the greatest moto-tech writer alive and he has been for decades. I am dreading his fast approaching retirement. All of his books and articles in Cycle World are brilliant. Able to make tech fun, understandable, and entertaining, he combines science and history on an amazingly wide variety of topics from tire development to chassis flex, and metallurgy to thermodynamics. What a great man.

Chip

Something tells me you miss Gordon Jennings.

One thing I like about Cameron is that he just writes whatever he wants now. He just does not give a rat's tail whether one person, or ten thousand people, read his stuff. If you don't get it, if you don't want to follow the bread crumbs he's leaving for you, so be it.