Originally Posted by
repechage
An interesting feature is that the saddle clamp is reversed, bold enough to abandon convention, but just could not bear to make the seat tube steeper. A 72 degree seat tube would probably fit very well to catch things better.
That was the way saddles were mounted on race bikes back in the day.
Slack seat posts were the norm, and saddles were on stems.
Wright Brothers' bicycle
1905 Motorpaced Stayer bike
PS. the fork is not backwards.