1918 Spring Wheels WW1 (Project)

1918 Spring Wheels WW1 (Project)

26″ Outer Rim (including solid rubber tyre)

20″ Inner Rim

(Now sold)

It’s not often that World War One spring wheels come up for sale. As you can see from the photos, these need some work, but there is enough there as a pattern to replace parts and build them up to go onto a bicycle. Or they would make an interesting display piece for a museum exhibition or summer show.

Britain controlled most of the world’s rubber supply through its colonies in Ceylon and Malaysia. So this type of spring wheel was used in Germany in the latter part of the war because of their rubber shortage.

I wrote on this subject in my book ‘Bad Teeth No Bar: A History of Military Bicycles in the Great War’ (now out of print), where I featured my World War One German bicycle with similar spring wheels.