Patent Pending Blog - Patents and the History of Technology: Belt Drive Bike from 1890

November 24, 2008

Belt Drive Bike from 1890

Here is an interesting belt drive bike from 1890.

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Comments

Wow this is an awesome website i'm glad that I came upon it!! Thanks for the info and I will be checking back later.

Posted by: Michael | November 24, 2008 at 05:08 PM

Really neat. What's the source of this?

Posted by: Rosemary | December 03, 2008 at 08:41 AM

Glad to see you revived this blog again. Nice post. Interesting that a belt drive would be proposed as early as 1890. I wonder if this design was one of the precursors to the motorcycle? Happy New Year.

Posted by: Ron | December 31, 2008 at 09:02 PM

Thank you for this great site. I have just covered the bicycle technology in the blog archive... and a few other nifty tidbits.

When I was reading you must have added yet another piece of information...! This time on vintage patent concerning the (much hyped today as the latest and greatest) belt drive technology.

Gates or no carbon, our ancestors could think, and invent. A rich treasure for us!

I am going to test ride a few bicycles with carbon belt drive this year (C'Dale, Nicolai, maybe a third one) to find out if it is really worth while to buy one.

Thanks for your information!

Posted by: Leszek | January 13, 2009 at 05:55 AM

Many interesting articles on this site.

Posted by: seguros moto | June 30, 2009 at 09:29 AM

As someone who just spent two hours replacing the chain on her mountain bike, I wonder what that belt was made of and how often it had to be greased!

Posted by: Tracey Mc | July 28, 2009 at 10:32 PM

Tracey: Wow, two hours seems like a lot of time to replace a chain. I thought that belt drive bike was interesting because a new bike just came out with belt drive, like it was a very new technology. Not. It was done 100 years ago. They probably have better belts now, however. By the way, when you replace a chain you often have to replace the freewheel or cassette also, for best results. Bob

Posted by: Bob S. | July 29, 2009 at 08:58 AM

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