Originally Posted by
NoControl
You just wait. I'll bet there are Illuminati engineers plotting designs to reintroduce coaster brakes as the next big thing.
Heh! Back in 1965 Charles Siple, father of Adventure Cycling co-founder Greg Siple, was "plotting" a design for a stealthy drive motor hidden in the seat tube of a racing bicycle as the "next big thing". He wrote about the "Checkered Flag Special", including a detailed sketch, as an April Fool's article for
Bicycling magazine that year...
Vintage Bicycling Illustration Shows Mechanical Doping in Pro Cycling as April Fool | Bicycling