![]() The oldest bows known so far comes from the Holmegård swamp in Denmark.Īt the site of Nataruk in Turkana County, Kenya, obsidian bladelets found embedded in a skull and within the thoracic cavity of another skeleton, suggest the use of stone-tipped arrows as weapons about 10,000 years ago. There are no definite earlier bows previous pointed shafts are known, but may have been launched by spear-throwers rather than bows. The arrows were made of pine and consisted of a main shaft and a 15–20 cm (5.9–7.9 in) fore shaft with a flint point. Other signs of its use in Europe come from the Stellmoor in the Ahrensburg valley north of Hamburg, Germany and dates from the late Paleolithic, about 10,000–9000 BC. Azilian points found in Grotte du Bichon, Switzerland, alongside the remains of both a bear and a hunter, with flint fragments found in the bear's third vertebra, suggest the use of arrows at 13,500 years ago. The earliest definite remains of bow and arrow from Europe are possible fragments from Germany found at Mannheim-Vogelstang dated 17,500 to 18,000 years ago, and at Stellmoor dated 11,000 years ago. īased on indirect evidence, the bow also seems to have appeared or reappeared later in Eurasia, near the transition from the Upper Paleolithic to the Mesolithic. The oldest known evidence of the bow and arrow comes from South African sites such as Sibudu Cave, where the remains of bone and stone arrowheads have been found dating approximately 72,000 to 60,000 years ago. Q&A: Carbon frame repair, learning bike mechanics.Main article: History of archery Origins and ancient archery.If you want to send me a photo of your bike, I'm happy to take a look and I can probably give your more specific help with your bike. Let me know if this answers your question. If I guessed correctly and you are missing the front brake housing section, it's probably about 24 inches long. You want the housing to have enough length so it reaches and has a nice bend so that as the brake opens and closes the housing can move a little and not bind. To do this you just hold them up to the brake lever (on the handlebar) and the brake caliper (on the frame) and you make an educated guess as to how long they should be. But if not, then you have to figure out the length yourself. If you have the old housing sections you can copy their length. To install the new cables and housings, you cut the housings to size, which is something that the mechanic figures out when working on the bike. When you buy a brake cable set, you will probably get the inner cables (the metal parts) and the housing (plastic parts - lined with metal inside). ![]() That's the plastic part that the cable runs through. ![]() It sounds like you might have lost a piece of the casing. It's a British 3-speed bicycle so it should take modern brake cables that you can buy almost anywhere that sells bike parts. If you get a good one in original condition, it'll be a nice rider perfect for getting around town or just becoming an outlaw and escaping reality for awhile. Check yard sales, flea markets, Goodwill stores, eBay, your neighbor's garage/attic! Robin Hood bicycles and head badges from the 1960's aren't all that hard to find or expensive. And, I'm sure other boys, like we did, pretended their bikes were horses and they were Robin's band of merry men. What's interesting to me, is that one 1960's 3-speed was pretty much identical to the next - sturdy all-British-steel construction, Sturmey-Archer 3-speed gearing, stamped-steel sidepull brakes, 26 x 1/38-inch wheels and tires, fenders and a chainguard.īut by naming theirs after the famous bowman from Sherwood Forest, and affixing a wonderful head badge of Robin in his Lincoln green suit with Nottingham Castle in the background, and using Robin Hood-theme decals, Raleigh captured every boy's attention (surely lots of men's too), and made them think that riding a Robin Hood was a lot more fun than pedaling around on a no-name two-wheeler. You can also make out that the 1944 Robin Hood model was likely higher quality and built with different components than the later models imported to the USA that we rode. Click to enlarge it so you can see Robin in his boots and cap, and shouldering his bow and quiver). On the left is a 1944 Robin Hood bicycle ad from my collection. Ridley Scott's new hit movie, Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe makes me think of other Robin Hoods - The Adventures of Robin Hood TV series and the brilliant 1938 Michael Curtiz movie of the same name with Errol Flynn as Robin, that all we kids watched in the sixties.īut, even more interesting, it makes me think of the " English racer" 3-speed Robin Hood bicycles made by Raleigh, that some of us were lucky enough to ride at the time.
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