Originally Posted by
mulleady
...Moulton... It had less vibration than some road bikes and was a really excellent ride. I can see why it has broken some sprint and other speed records. It is not to be scoffed at by roadies.
Moulton bikes have been used in winning time trials, road races, criteriums, triathlons, and track events. They've been ridden to official finishes in the RAAM, tackled the Paris-Roubaix route, used for setting an as yet unbroken HPV record, been along for point to point time records and used for PBs in the P-B-P. (Use of Moulton bikes is no longer allowed in competitions controlled by the UCI.) Moulton-mounted tours began in Iceland in 1962, and since then, tourists have ridden laden Moultons over the Himalayan mountains, down to the Dead Sea, along the great wall of China, across the Nulibor Plain and Gobi desert, into equatorial Africa, the length of America's Great Divide off-road trail, end-to-end, transcontinental and around the world; Moulton riders have been everywhere from Patagonia to north of the Arctic Circle.
Just so you know.
tcs
Fun fact: Dr. Moulton was organizing a professional racing team to campaign his little bikes on the continent during the 1968 season when his company was bought out by Raleigh.