 A 1960s "Moulton Standard" Moulton is an English bicycle manufacturer starting production in the 1960s. The company was founded in 1962 by Dr Alex Moulton who designed the suspension system for the famous Mini motorcar. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1000x765, 258 KB)A 1960s Moulton Bicycle. ...
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This racing bicycle is built using lightweight, shaped aluminium tubing and carbon fiber stays and forks. ...
The 1960s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ...
1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Alex Moulton created the company Moulton, an English Bicycle company. ...
The front suspension components of a Ford Model T. Suspension is the term given to the system of springs, shock absorbers and linkages that connects a vehicle to its wheels. ...
Minis The Mini is the name of a small car produced from 1959 to 2000, and the name of its replacement (known as New MINI) launched in 2001. ...
Moulton designed and built a range of small wheeled bicycles, which were well ahead of their time. The bicycles produced by Moulton were all fitted with front and rear suspension systems, a feature which would not become common on most bicycles for another 30 years. The Moulton bicycle also featured a radically different frame design, compared to the traditional "double diamond" frame, often known as an 'F-frame' due to its unusual structure. A common misconception about Moultons is that they 'fold' in the manner of more recent designs by manufacturers such as Brompton or Dahon. This is not true, though the Moulton design paved the way for such later designs and various Moultons over the years have been made in 'separable' versions allowing relatively easy dismantling for transportation or storage. Mass-appeal versions such as the 'Standard' and 'Deluxe' were complemented by 'Speed' versions which were used in competition. Brompton are an English Bicycle manufacturer who produce Folding bicycles. ...
During the 1960s Moulton bicycles were sold around the world by the hundreds of thousands, and Moulton were briefly one of the largest bicycle manufacturers in Britain. The influential architecture and design critic Peter Reyner Banham, known for his often controversial views on technology and industrialisation, was a keen advocate and user of the original Moulton. Reyner Banham (1922-1988) was a prolific Anglo-American architectural critic and writer best known for his 1960 theoretical treatise Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, and his 1971 book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies in which he categorized the Angelean experience into four ecological models...
The company was bought by Raleigh in the early 1970s and production of the innovative cycles was stopped. Moulton bicycles are today a valued collectors item. Raleigh is a British bicycle manufacturer based in Nottingham in central England. ...
The 1970s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1970 and 1979. ...
In the early 1980s, Alex Moulton, the designer of the original Moulton bicycle, brought out a new design along broadly similar lines to the original. Aimed at the high end of the market, this "AM" series (which remains in production today) has a highly original "space frame" design allowing high rigidity and low weight.
To bring the new design to a larger market, a cheaper variant of the AM bicycle design, known as the APB (All-Purpose Bicycle), is produced under licence by a company called Pashley. Pashley is a British bicycle manufacturer which is based in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. ...
A new model, stylistically and structurally similar to the original Moulton design, is now being manufactured in Japan by Bridgestone. Known as the Bridgestone Moulton, it is built in Japan and then built up in England at the Moulton factory. Like the original Moulton, the AM, and the APB before it, it is available in separable and rigid 'performance' versions. Though a hark-back to the original design, it is nevertheless a contemporary performance bicycle and features cutting edge design and componentry.
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