Bridgestone bicycle history4/12/2023 ![]() In 19, Mark Sanders, a designer who had earned his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London, designed a folding bicycle as part of his graduate studies in an Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) program. Since their innovation, they have continuously offered belt drive bicycles in Japan including their best selling Albelt model. It was apparently successful, but was offered mainly in Japan.īridgestone did offer belt drive bicycles in the USA until they left the market about 1994. The Picnica was a small wheel bicycle, so belt tension may have been less than on a bicycle with standard-size wheels. The Picnica was a folding bicycle, and part of the appeal of the belt drive was cleanliness. ![]() It used a tooth-belt drive like auto timing belts and Harley-Davidson drive belts, along with a novel two-part chainring that increased belt tension with increasing load. The Bridgestone Picnica belt-drive bicycle was introduced in the early 1980s.
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