Swing Bike

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A Swing Bike is a brand of bicycle which allowed for steering at both the front wheel and the rear wheel.[1][2] The design was patented by Ralph Belden in 1974,[3] brought to market in 1975, and discontinued by 1978.[4] The name has come to mean any bike with a second steering axis in front of the saddle.[5][6] A new bicycle by the same name has been launched by Americas Bike Co. in San Diego, California.[7]

The original Swing Bike as in the wheelie bike style,[8] and the Swing Bike company also offered a normally-steered BMX bike in 1977.[9] An early working name for the Swing Bike as Pivicycle[10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Swing Bike (original advertisement)". Boy's Life. August 1976. Retrieved 2012-07-19. 
  2. ↑ "The Swing Bike Rider". 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-19. 
  3. ↑ "United States Patent #3,801,130: BICYCLE WITH PIVOTABLE REAR WHEEL". Retrieved 2012-07-19. "A two wheeled, rider propelled vehicle having both wheels pivotably mounted upon a medial principal frame." 
  4. ↑ Bob Hufford (July 11, 2010). "Swing Bike: The Wackiest Thing on Two Wheels". Retrieved 2012-07-19. 
  5. ↑ Stephen Spillman (July 14, 2012). "Hockley County celebrates Settlers Day". Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. Retrieved 2012-07-19. "Kyle Drennan rides his swing bike in the Hockley County Celebration parade in Levelland Saturday." 
  6. ↑ "Swing bike". Bicycle Forest. Retrieved 2012-07-19. "This is George Aitken riding his swing bike in the Canada Day parade in Cambridge, Ontario." 
  7. ↑ Jerry Hirsch (December 13, 2007). "Wheels for swingers". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-07-19. "Americas Bike Co. is banking on its hinged design to catch on with riders." 
  8. ↑ "Swing Bike Brochure". Retrieved 2012-07-19. 
  9. ↑ "Swing Bike BMX Bike". Retrieved 2012-07-19. 
  10. ↑ "Early Swing Bike (Pivicycle) Magazine Reference!". American Bicyclist and Motorcyclist. 1971. Retrieved 2012-07-19. 
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