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Moulton BicycleMoulton was an English Bicycle manufacturer of the 1960s. The company was founded in 1962 by Dr Alex Moulton who designed the suspension system for the famous Mini motorcar. Moulton designed and built a range of small wheeled bicycles, which were well ahead of their time. The bicycles produced by Moulton were all fitted with front and rear suspension systems, a feature which would not become common on most bicycles for another 30 years. And the Moulton bicycles also had a new frame design, which was radically different from the traditional "diamond" shaped bicycle frame. During the 1960s Moulton bicycles were sold around the world by the hundreds of thousands, and Moulton were briefly one of the largest bicycle manufacturers in Britain. The company was bought by Raleigh in the early 1970s and production of the innovative cycles was stopped. Moulton bicycles are today a valued collectors item. In the early 1980s, Alex Moulton, the designer of the original Moulton bicycle, brought out a new design along similar lines to the original. Aimed at the high end of the market, this "AM" series (which remains in production today) has a highly original "space frame" design allowing high rigidity and low weight. To bring the new design to a larger market, a cheaper variant of the AM bicycle design, known as the APB (All-Purpose Bicycle), is produced under licence by a company called Pashley. External links
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