Pope Manufacturing Company

[RedRider]

Initially tickled by the name of the company I'm now intrigued as to how this chainless bicycle worked.

And now two further amusing/instructive adverts from the treasure trove that is the Online Bike Museum...

And...

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

These are just as intriguing...they look like self-propelling foot pumps

 

[ASC1951]

Initially tickled by the name of the company I'm now intrigued as to how this chainless bicycle worked.

Shaft drive within the frame. A very neat system, but they disappeared as soon as good chains could be mass produced. They were only around for 20-30 years.

 

[Hover Fly]

 

[RedRider]

Loving the Psycho Cycles. I'm sure they and the Starley Brothers shared the bill with the Chocolate Watchband at the Filmore Auditorium, '67? (The Pope Manufacturing Company were top of the bill, I think.)

Interesting about those shaft driven bikes - an evolutionary dead end - and those skates look like shin-breakers!

 

[Arch]

Loving the Psycho Cycles. I'm sure they and the Starley Brothers shared the bill with the Chocolate Watchband at the Filmore Auditorium, '67? (The Pope Manufacturing Company were top of the bill, I think.)

Interesting about those shaft driven bikes - an evolutionary dead end - and those skates look like shin-breakers!

Not entirely. We reviewed on in Velo Vision about 7 years ago, from Zero Cycles. I don't know if they still exist though, webpage seems to be gone. No doubt there are others out there now though. Everything pops up now and again.

 

[Hover Fly]

One sees rather a lot of shaft driven bicycles in Bordeaux.

http://www.vcub.fr/le-velo-vcub