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05-06-2024, 05:36 AM
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I did some reading on the Viet Minh/NVA bicycle transport units. In most cases, the bikes were actually pushed by a pair of porters walking alongside while the frames themselves were modified to hold the weight of the load. Effectively this turned the bicycle into a form of cart. This more than doubled the load from just over a hundred pounds to over 400 pounds. Apparently most of the modification was done with saws and bamboo.
It’s not really cycle infantry, but I wonder if “pack bikes” like these may turn up as vehicles in a civilian caravan or be used for logistics in some resource poor cantonments? 
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05-31-2024, 05:02 AM
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06-04-2024, 06:54 AM
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Second photo down:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-40555454 I am guessing pre-World War One? "1914 Royal Enfield Bicycle Ambulance WW1". https://onlinebicyclemuseum.co.uk/ww...cle-ambulance/ 2013: https://news.wfsu.org/2013-08-13/in-...est-ambulances
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06-04-2024, 03:14 PM
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Great find re that bike ambulance, Brit. I reckon that would be a common- perhaps the most common- way to medevac casualties c. 2000.
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06-04-2024, 07:56 PM
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Bicycle Infantry
Some Honved (Hungarian Army) units attached to the Mobile Corps which took place in Barbarossa were bicycle Infantry if my memory is correct. Did Switzerland completely do away with bicycle troops recently?
In T2K bicycle troops would certainly make sense.
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06-05-2024, 04:05 AM
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https://www.cyclinguk.org/sites/defa...tretcherv2.png
This was the photo I was trying to find. I wonder what else you could carry instead? 
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06-05-2024, 11:02 AM
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Some other commercial versions:
https://www.babboecargobike.com/cargo-bikes https://www.babboepro.com/us/pro-delivery-bikes https://www.amsterdam-bicycle.com/pr...y/cargo-bikes/
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