Nearly twenty years after the original Musselman design appeared on the market, Phipps designed and constructed his own balloon tires in the period after the Second World War and fitted them to a Piper PA-18 Super Cub.
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ATLANTA _ How they laughed at Gary Fisher, Joe Breeze, Charlie Cunningham, Charles Kelly and the other crazies who slapped balloon tires on old paperboy bikes so they could tear around on the hillside trails of Marin County, Calif.
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Some of the most visually stunning bicycles at the Copake Auction are the Art Deco-era balloon tire bicycles, so called because of the plump wide tires on these distinctive bicycles from the pre-war years between the 1930s and early 1940s.
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We drive by endless modular trailers, slate-gray rigs resembling ancient obelisks, tractors on big balloon tires, businesses with names like Halliburton ( formerly headed by a guy named Cheney, whom we might have heard of, the driver tells us ).
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The advent of the balloon tire in the 1930s made the experience less bone-shaking, but the finer points of mountain bikes and mountain biking were not developed until the mid-1970s, when cyclists in Marin County, Calif ., began racing down Mount Tamalpais.
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The designer, Stace Schrader was formerly involved with Avid Aircraft, the Denney Kitfox and Sky Raider LLC designs, all similar aircraft . The resulting aircraft was described by reviewer Andre Cliche as " a clone identical to its predecessors except for a few details like, for example the type of ailerons and balloon tires for rough terrain operations ."
