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pTrack bike aficionados, feast your eyes on A HREF=”http://bc150.ecuad.ca/museum/02_03.html” the ultimate Fixie/A. Made from wood and iron, this front-drive bike from 1870 weighed a ton and probably provided a ride marginally more comfortable than being thrown down a staircase.br /
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The bike was spotted on the A HREF=”http://bc150.ecuad.ca/museum.html” Virtual Museum website of the BC 150 Applied Arts Project/A, which documents 150 years worth of objects made in British Columbia, from 1858 to 2008. Although the site is poorly laid out–there are no thumbnails or “Next/Previous” buttons, so you must laboriously click through a series of numerical links with no hint of what’s behind them–there are countless examples of early design, from package designs for A HREF=”http://bc150.ecuad.ca/museum/04_07.html” canned fish to beer bottles/A to A HREF=”http://bc150.ecuad.ca/museum/02_02.html” early sidewalks/A and more. /p

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