A Short History of the Off-Road Bike (Part 4)
Contrary to the trend of the last decades the mountain bike surprisingly seems to be losing its appeal. At the same time, the road bike for unpaved roads is just being reinvented as a “Gravel Bike”…
Category: History of Technology
A Short History of the Off-Road Bike (Part 3)
When the road racing machine was the bike of the time, the modern mountain bike emerged and it is now probably the most prominent type of bicycle built specifically for riding off-road.
A Short History of the Off-Road Bike (Part 2)
Für die deutsche Version bitte hier klicken. From the Beginning of the 20th Century to the 1960s Due to the condition of the roads, the bicycle was in its beginning a vehicle for unpaved roads….
A Short History of the Off-Road Bike (Part 1 – Continued)
Just as today’s bike magazines are filled with suggestions for off-road rides, the early cycle magazines printed descriptions of exceptionally good roads. Among the cyclists in England, the country of origin of the modern bicycle…
The Windmills of our Bikes. A Short History of the Off-Road Bike
If you enter a bike shop or click through current offers of bicycle manufacturers, it is very likely that you encounter “Gravel” or “Adventure Bikes”. They are touted as a new kind of bike: They look like racing machines…