The trailblazing bicycle design made instantly redundant by the pneumatic tyre comes to auction
You have to feel some sympathy for the innovative designers Charles Linley and John Biggs. Having just perfected a classic bicycle using an ingenious method of shock absorbing for a solid-tyre bike, then the pneumatic tyre came along.
End of story for his Linley & Biggs ‘Whippet’ sprung-frame bicycle – until the present day, howe…