A video has been posted on YouTube showing Alex Moulton's Bugatti Lecture at Coventry University in November 2008. It's over an hour long, so put the phone off the hook, boil the kettle, sit back and enjoy...
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Sturmey Archer S3X – Hub Specs and Shifters
From the Sunrace Sturmey Archer site...
Thank you everyone for your comments. The response to the new S3X has been overwhelming and we are really looking forward to finishing up and getting this hub into your hands.
The name will not be changing. I appreciate everyone's thoughts on naming it after Sheldon, it just is not possible.
Some of the most asked questions should be answered with the below pictures. Hub will be 120mm OLD. Two shifters, top mount thumb and bar end. Cog interface is a standard Shimano spline.
The post shows details of a bar-mounted thumb shifter...
... and a bar-end shifter...
New Moulton Websites
The new URL for this site is moultonbuzz.com. The new domain name should make it easier to remember. The old link should continue to work, but just in case it stops working in the future, please update your bookmarks.
The RSS feeds are processed through FeedBurner, so they should need no modification.
Speaking of new websites, the new Moulton Bicycle Company has registered the domain moultonbicycles.co.uk, and there you can find an "under development" page, showing the new logos and colour scheme.
The text on the site refers to the Moulton Bicycle as "comfortable, small wheeled bicycles". It also mentions "stiff, open frame" and "improved comfort and road holding". Nowhere is the word "performance" used. This is a huge aspect of the bikes to neglect. The Moulton bicycle holds a world speed record for a bicycle in the conventional riding position - they should be shouting it from the rooftops!
Bike Show Moulton Special
The Bike Show will feature a Moulton special, tonight (Monday, 22nd September at 18:30 BST).
UPDATE: The show was originally scheduled for tonight, but it has been rescheduled for next Monday, 29th September 2008.
The show will feature interviews with Alex Moulton, Tony Hadland, Mike Woolf, and others.
The Bike Show is a weekly half-hour show about cycling, presented by Jack Thurston. It focuses on
the art, science, politics and transcendental pleasure of cycling, in London and beyond. From Le Tour de France to roller-racing, from Bromptons to penny farthings, from Kraftwerk to hip-hop, from urban design to cycle touring, literature, history, travel, art, music and sport come together in a weekly half-hour show.
I have been a regular listener for a number of years and I thoroughly recommend it.
You can listen to tonight's show in the following ways:
- on the radio at 104.4 FM in London.
- Listen to the live stream on Resonancefm.com. The link is near the top, left.
- After the show goes out live, the Bike Show website will have links to download or stream the recording.
- The show is available as a podcast on iTunes or RSS.
The bike that attracted a man from Japan
The bike that attracted a man from Japan >> South Devon Herald Express
Tuesday, September 09, 2008, 08:07
JAPANESE businessman Tetsuya Shiomi spent £2,000 travelling to Torbay to collect a rare but rusty British bike initially offered on eBay for £1.
The bill was for a 6,000 mile round trip for himself and his wife Atsuk including flights and hotels.
Original owner Bruce Symes, 75, of Galmpton couldn't believe the world-wide interest in the rusty Moulton Speedsix, especially from the Far East.
It was given to him by a friend and only put on the internet auction site at the last minute after being saved from a chuck-it trip to Yalberton tip.
Eventually the Japanese collector topped the bidding at £537 and decided to make it a personal collection trip to Europe — to add to his other six Moultons.
Mr Symes thought it was practically worthless, hence the low starting price on eBay.
The charity supporter says all the money is now going to the Dart Sailability scheme for the disabled, based at Kingswear.
Mr Shiomi revealed: "I have six Moulton bikes already and I saw this one and wanted to add it to my collection.
"It is not a businesses venture but a hobby of mine.
"I love the frames and the shape and they are very popular in my country. I also like Mini Coopers and have one of them too.
"I wanted to collect the bicycle myself and meet Mr Symes and thank him. It was a nice holiday for me and my wife."
Mr Symes said he was delighted to raise any money from it at all. "It was lovely to see it go to a good home.
''The bike was covered in rust and I nearly took it to the scrap heap but now it is travelling to the other side of the world.
''When I saw the winning bid was from Japan obviously I thought I'd be shipping it over there.
''I never thought for a second the new owner would come so far to pick it up." A bidding war developed when beady-eyed collectors had noticed the yellow bike was a rarity the first six-speed bike made in Britain in the 1960s.
Only 600 were ever manufactured.
Furniture dealer Mr Shiomi travelled from his home in Saku-Shi near Nagano to Bruce's house in Galmpton, turning it into a European holiday with his wife.
Experts say there is currently a boom in Japan and China in the trade of English antiques, curios and vehicles such as cars and bikes.
Built in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, the Speedsix was designed for both touring and competition and was billed as a 'lean, mean, speed machine'.
