- Humber (bicycle)
Humber is an English brand of
bicycle . [ cite web
url = http://www.sheldonbrown.com/english-3.html#humber
title = The Golden Age of 3 Speeds
accessdate = 2007-04-27|last=Brown |first=Sheldon |authorlink=Sheldon Brown (bicycle mechanic) |publisher=Sheldon Brown] One model is the Humber Sport 3-speed pictured on this page. It includes an unusual fork design, called "Duplex", in which each blade consist of two separate tubes, and a stylish chainring that includes the shape of five persons. [ cite web
url = http://www.blackbirdsf.org/chainwheels/images/humber.jpg
title = Chainwheel Tattoo Project: Humber
accessdate = 2007-04-27] [ cite web
url = http://genetics.mgh.harvard.edu/hanczyc/jpg/humber/71humber3.jpg
title = Martin's Bicycle Page: 1971 Humber
accessdate = 2007-04-27]History
Made by Humber car manufacturer from the 1880s until 1932 when sold to Raleigh, who continued the brand name into the 1970s. [ cite web
url = http://www.mvvcc.org.uk/features/cycles/humber_royal.htm
title = March Veteran and Vintage Cycle Club: Humber Royal 1954
accessdate = 2007-04-27]Frame
Humber also manufactured, at one time, an unusual type of
bicycle frame known variously as "cross frames", "girder frames", or "truss frames". Their variant was also duplex, consisting in part of smaller side-by-side tubes similar to the duplex fork pictured on this page. [cite web
url = http://www.rijwiel.net/kruisfre.htm
title = Cross Frames: Historical Evolution
accessdate = 2007-04-27]ee also
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Humber Motorcycles
*Humber (car) References
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