Re: Packard Bikes
Posted by Leeedy On 2022/11/24 18:27:24
Now let's move to 1939. Remember what we told you about the term, "knee-action" with bicycles? Here it is again... with Packard-brand bicycles being sold in Lancaster, Pennsylvania during 1939.
The entire bicycle industry in the USA once called front suspension forks "knee action" or "knee-action" as on cars. But today and since the 1980s, people insist upon calling knee-action spring forks on bicycles as "springers." Even vintage bicycle collectors today will say, "It's got a springer..."
How this phenomenon got started, nobody knows.
But we have shown you several instances were people from the times when these bicycles were made referred to them as "knew action" bicycles. Here is an original 1939 Packard bicycles so equipped.
Dare I say it? Again, no mention of these bicycles being given away with new Packard automobiles. The retailer store selling these bicycles was a sporting goods store known as Shenk Brothers.
This original advertisement is courtesy of National Bicycle History Archive of America (NBHAA.com).
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The entire bicycle industry in the USA once called front suspension forks "knee action" or "knee-action" as on cars. But today and since the 1980s, people insist upon calling knee-action spring forks on bicycles as "springers." Even vintage bicycle collectors today will say, "It's got a springer..."
How this phenomenon got started, nobody knows.
But we have shown you several instances were people from the times when these bicycles were made referred to them as "knew action" bicycles. Here is an original 1939 Packard bicycles so equipped.
Dare I say it? Again, no mention of these bicycles being given away with new Packard automobiles. The retailer store selling these bicycles was a sporting goods store known as Shenk Brothers.
This original advertisement is courtesy of National Bicycle History Archive of America (NBHAA.com).
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