Author: Moultonbuzz

Pictures of the TSR Rack

I found another picture of the Pashley rear rack for the TSR here

Rear rack on Pashley Moulton TSR

As mentioned previously, the new rack seems a lot narrower than the old APB's platform rack, at least when the bag is removed. Part of the rack is semi-permanently attached to the bag, which clips onto to the main rack chassis. This arrangement seems convenient, though it would seem to prevent the use of a fruit box or basket.

Pashely Moulton TSR with rear rack

Dream Moulton

My wife had a dream last night, that she found an old Moulton bicycle in a garage somewhere and she tried to "retrieve" it for me.

All I can think about is... what model was it?

Bicycle Barbarism

In yesterday's Guardian, Matt Seaton mentioned "all those photographs in newspapers and online galleries of people in their wellies cycling through floods..."
Bicycling through the floods

Matt continues: "What I can't understand is how anyone would inflict such treatment on their bike. It's a barbarism, like whipping a horse, and there ought to be a law against it. "

While no self respecting Moultoneer would inflict such barbarism on their noble steed, there are those bicycle owners that refuse to cycle their bicycles in the rain... now there ought to be a law against that.

Aerodynamic research using the Moulton small-wheeled bicycle

The IMechE Journal of Energy and Power, Volume 20 No 3, 2006 featured an article on Aerodynamic research using the Moulton small-wheeled bicycle.

The abstract reads as follows: "This short article describes aerodynamic research carried out using the Moulton small-wheeled bicycle. Alex Moulton's initial research, applying streamlined cowlings to his early small-wheeled bicycles, is briefly described. His later collaboration with Douglas Milliken is covered in greater detail. Milliken's many experiments with fairings included wind tunnel tests in crosswinds, an aspect of bicycle science rarely investigated hitherto. An important finding was the ability for a streamlined bicycle under certain conditions to sail. The Moulton–Milliken collaboration led to the development of fully streamlined bicycles, using the conventional riding position, which twice broke a speed record."

The record mentioned is of course the world unpaced cycling record over 200m (conventional riding position) in 1985. The speed attained was 50.21mph (80.79kph), the bicycle was an Alex Moulton AM.

Jim Glover, broke the record again in 1986, on a new improved Moulton Liner. The new record, 51.29mph (82.53kph), still stands.

Moulton record breaking Liner

More details on the bike and the record can be found on Doug Millken's site, and pictures can be seen in Tony Hadland's pictures from the Moulton Museum.