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European HPV Championships 1993 in Farum, Denmark.

Among the more- ambitious prototype bikes shown in Farum was this early- model Ostrad Langliegerad, obviously influenced by Werner Stiffel's principle of "no amount of suspension is ever too much." If I remember correctly, the Ostrad builders, a few young people in the former- East Berlin (therefore "Ost  rad"), fed up with being unemployed in a rapidly shifting economy, decided to do something about it, and start a bicycle factory. In 1992 they therefore arranged a two weeks' study- visit to Carl Georg Rasmussen's  Leitra  workshop outside of Copenhagen, to learn how to go about developing and manufacturing bicycles. This LWB model was their first product, to be followed a year and a half later by a Kurzliegerad, short- wheelbase cycle with equally ambitious amounts of rear suspension (and a suspended front fork as well!). Nice-y, but price-y.

66 km road race 
Ostrad LWB prototype
And the winner is...  Intermediate gear closeup
Global FAME & Glory  Swinging front suspension
A cycle for armchair cyclists  Ready to brave the weather!
A novel fairing idea  All-zippered up
Novel fairing in action  All revealed
Hidden chain  FWD racer

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