Humber (bicycle)

Humber is an English brand of bicycle.[1] One model is the Humber Sport 3-speed pictured on this page. It includes an unusual fork design, called "Duplex", in which each blade consist of two separate tubes, and a stylish chainring that includes the shape of five persons.[2][3]

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History

Made by Humber car manufacturer from the 1880s until 1932 when sold to Raleigh, who continued the brand name into the 1970s.[4]

Frame

Humber also manufactured, at one time, an unusual type of bicycle frame known variously as "cross frames", "girder frames", or "truss frames". Their variant was also duplex, consisting in part of smaller side-by-side tubes similar to the duplex fork pictured on this page.[5]

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