What Would the Bike of AD 2000 Look Like

FOUND – Part One

In 1954 Britain’s “Cycling Weekly” magazine asked their readers what they thought the bicycle would look like in the year 2000. We posted part two of this article about a year ago and many of you found it pretty interesting. Now we have the missing part one, thanks to Tony Colegrave.

Some of the predictors had a pretty accurate crystal ball; “Mass produced frames will be electrically welded but craftsman-specialists will still build bicycles. . . .by hand, to the requirements of the conniseur.” Some missed the mark pretty wide; Bicycles “will be built on the stretched-skin aircraft principal. . .opening as a spectacle case does”

Here are links to PDFs of both parts of this old article:

PDF Part 1 -Bike of Year 2000 – from March 18, 1954
PDF Part 2 -Bike of Year 2000 – from March 25, 1954

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