Bicycle Design Books and Articles
From Endless Sphere Wiki
If you are a patient technical reader, Chalo suggests "Bicycles and Tricycles" by Archibald Sharp. It's well over 100 years old, but it does a better job of covering the basics of designing bike frames for strength than anything else I have come across. [1]
Miles gives us The Sharp treatise and other interesting old bicycle books are available to download from the Internet Archive: [2] And for tricycles: [3]
Another classic from Miles, Structures and Why Things Do Not Fall Down: [4]
--bigMoose who doesn't know what he is doing with Wiki! 22:52, 17 May 2012 (EDT)
