Moulton Bicycle Club

‘This Is Design’ celebrates iconic pieces at Design Museum

After 5 years of careful cataloguing and conservation, many of the highlights of Design Museum’s collection are being re-unveiled tomorrow as part of new show ‘This Is Design’ (to January 22). Celebrating the impact these pieces have had on the modern world, the exhibition showcases the importance of design in shaping all aspects of both our lives and contemporary culture – with everything from prototypes and drawings to mass manufacturing innovations on display. Featured among the vast showcase are the Candlestick Telephone, the Anglepoise Lamp, the original Mini and the Moulton Bicycle.

For info, see This is Design listing.

via ‘This Is Design’ celebrates iconic pieces at Design Museum – Now. Here. This. – Time Out London.

Brit Brands Commit to Domestic Manufacturing

via Bicycle Retailer and Industry News.

One difficulty in handbuilding bikes domestically is finding highly skilled craftsmen to delicately braze frames. What was once a common skill in the 1970s and ’80s is now rare, said Shaun Moulton, who runs his uncle Dr. Alex Moulton’s revered folding bike brand.

“We don’t make things in this country anymore. We don’t have those skills anymore; we don’t teach those skills,” Moulton said. Pashley builds Moulton’s entry-level TSR range, but the high-end frames are made at Moulton’s headquarters at an old English manor in the quaint village of Bradford-on-Avon. There, brazers spend 70 hours on one frame, sometimes working with tubes as thin as a half-millimeter in diameter.

Moulton 60

The first production version of the Moulton 60 was unveiled at the club weekend at Bradford on Avon. Limited to 191 bicycles, the stainless steel frames will be silver brazed at the factory in Bradford on Avon.
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In standard 'complete bicycle' specification, the Moulton 60 is equipped with the Shimano Alfine 11-speed hub gear, giving a gear range from 25" to 102". Flat-bar and drop-bar models are available.

The standard specification is as follows:
Moulton 'F' frame in stainless-steel, with Columbus XCR seat tube and Reynolds 953 head tube.
Moulton leading-link front fork (all stainless-steel)
Rear fork with Flexitor (rubber) pivot and Hydrolastic fluid-damped rear spring
Campagnolo Record threadless headset (1")
68mm BSC bottom bracket shell
Brake drop for 57mm drop calipers, recessed bolts
Moulton 17" wheels (369mm)
Supplied with stainless-steel daybag carrier

Options include: mudguards, large rear carrier, day, weekend and large touring bags, propstand, Moulton bottle cages.

Pictures by flickr user lovely_bicycle and Ken Butterfield

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Club Weekend BoA 2011

Below are some photos from the club weekend at Bradford on Avon.

Photos are from flickr users
anglepoise and stevenbrandist

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Moulton on Savile Row

A Moulton SPEED has found an illustrious By Royal Appointment host this August in Savile Row, London. Surrounded by luxurious cashmere, and unique Dege and Skinner designs, the bicycle is taking centre stage in the bespoke tailor's shop window in the heart of Mayfair's "golden mile of tailoring". The Moulton SPEED, in aero-graded stainless steel, fits hand in glove with Dege and Skinner's pictured creations, being a fine example of British engineering and beautiful design. One for the album!

via MOULTON Bicycle Company.

Update 24th August 2011: Thanks also to David Wilson for the extra pictures.