{"id":52,"date":"2012-05-14T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T01:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-10-25T10:27:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T23:27:07","slug":"how-post-war-bicycles-are-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/2012\/05\/14\/how-post-war-bicycles-are-made\/","title":{"rendered":"How Post-war Bicycles are Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/39401575\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I thought this was a fantastic &#8220;how it&#8217;s made&#8221; video from post-war Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Couple of highlights for me: <em>(&#8220;Spoilers&#8221;, watch video first)<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OH&amp;S? What? A delightful lack of regard for safety in many many places;<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Worker dipping hot bike frames into some kind of cleaning bath, vapour enveloping him&#8230; Facemask, or protective clothing? Nope.<\/li>\n<li>All manner of spinning, pressing, other moving parts&#8230; no guards anywhere, just try not to lose a finger\/eye\/arm.<\/li>\n<li>Worker dipping bike frames into an enamel paint bath all day, with his bare hands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Amazing machinery&#8230; The gadget that cuts the teeth into the main gear? (nom nom nom) Or any of the forging\/pressing stuff? Wow.<\/li>\n<li>The bottom bracket of each bike is formed from a single circular piece of steel, pressed into a cylinder, then gradually into the very complex final shape.<\/li>\n<li>No Bowden cables back then, if you look carefully during the assembly steps these bikes actually use a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Rod_brake.JPG\">Rod Brake<\/a> system, and presumably something similar for the gear changer.<\/li>\n<li>Very similar to today&#8217;s bikes. I&#8217;m sure you could take any person from the video, put them on a 2012 carbon-fibre fancy-bike, and they&#8217;d have no trouble riding it around. Compare to today&#8217;s fancy cars, and even working out what to do with the key. ^_^<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was a fantastic &#8220;how it&#8217;s made&#8221; video from post-war Britain. Couple of highlights for me: (&#8220;Spoilers&#8221;, watch video first) OH&amp;S? What? A delightful lack of regard for safety in many many places; Worker dipping hot bike frames &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/2012\/05\/14\/how-post-war-bicycles-are-made\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mindbleach.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}