> What this reminds me of is the model (a year or > so after the one pictured on the web site you sent) > which had the handlebars & stem attached to the > steering tube through a slot in the head tube...
Was that a road bike or a track/pursuit bike? I recall a few variations on that theme, with bikes meant to be used on velodromes. This included one in which the stem (so to speak) was an arm - welded to the fork - that projected upwards in front of the steering tube.
Again - if I recall correctly - the first of these were built for the East German and Soviet Union national teams. After all, with your space exploration program in decline (and without a viable race car industry such as in England) what else would your top aerodynamicists work on? Well, bobsleds I suppose, but that's a different mailing list... Do svidanya, Fred "Internationalist" Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA) (Just kidding, but I am currently am sipping French wine from a drinking glass made in the DDR)
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