shaping the now
by mike ferrentino I photo: anthony smith
Jun 02, 2017
2 minutes
FOR ABOUT A HUNDRED YEARS, BICYCLES were made of steel. Road bikes, mountain bikes, it didn’t matter. Steel had been the default ever since we climbed down off Penny Farthings and embraced the ‘safety bicycle’ back in the 1880s. Bicycles were assembled from tubes of steel in traditional ‘double diamond’ configuration; itself the best combination of strength and light
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