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Bike wreck that became a car

You're sitting in the nose of a long, thin projectile, feeling as exposed as Marat in his bath waiting for Charlotte Corday to strike,cartier bracelet screwdriver imitation, then the engine fires up and everything vibrates. As Mike, sitting behind you, engages drive, your field of vision blurs violently. It's rather like those scenes in Star Trek where Scottie turns on the warp drive. And then you're moving at what seems like an almost uncontrollable speed.

In reality, the Bedelia is probably doing only 30mph or so, but it feels a lot faster. As Mike has his hands full driving the beast, the passenger's job is to clear people out of the way by winding the handle of a fearsomely loud Klaxon.

The Bedelia is unlike anything else you're likely to see on the road. For a start, it's tandem seated,cartier love bracelet yellow price, with the driver at the rear, peering anxiously round the passenger's head. The front axle, controlled by spring loaded cables, pivots on a central steering post, while the basic functions of going and stopping are controlled by a hefty lever moving in a viciously toothed rack. The rack has to be massive, for the neutral position is achieved by moving the rear axle forward bodily to free the long, flapping drive belts from their pulleys.

It's a real juggling act, for the initial part of that forward axle movement allows the belts to rise up the vee of the driving pulleys, which close under centrifugal force to give high gear.

The genesis of the Bedelia was as unorthodox as its specification. In the spring of 1909, two 18 year old French enthusiasts, Robert Bourbeau and Henri Devaux the "Be" and the "De" of its name were on a nocturnal excursion to Dieppe aboard their ancient motorcycle and trailer when they collided with a lamp post, reducing the outfit to a tangle of tubes.

They hauled what was worth saving back to Paris and created a car out of the remains, using wood found around Devaux pre's coalyard for the chassis and coal sacks for the hammock seats. The steering wheel rim had previously served to unite the legs of a bentwood chair in the Devaux household, and was laced to the steering column by spokes.

With backing from Devaux senior, the young entrepreneurs went into production in 1910, setting off a "cyclecar" craze in France,cartier love bracelet men faux, which was echoed in England after the construction of a light three wheeler by HFS Morgan. The demand for cheap, fast motoring led to the birth of dozens of tiny cyclecar companies from 1910 14, but most were just memories by the mid 1920s.

At this spring's Vintage Montlhry meeting, the event's creator, Jacques Potherat,cartier love bracelet pink gold copy, reunited no fewer than six Bedelias, one of which was being restored as the weekend progressed.

British enthusiasts could have seen one of those Bedelias and other bizarre cyclecars in the Cartier Style et Luxe display at the Goodwood Festival of Speed at the weekend.

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