Classic & Vintage - Help Identifying this Unusual Quad/Bike (Graziella)

Hello Everyone,

I'm looking for information on the bike shown in the following picture (more picts here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/20919464@N00/?saved=1)). My grandparents owned it, but I don't know anything at all about it. Any information that anyone could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

pmb333

http://home.comcast.net/~pmb333/DSCF0008.JPG

I think they bought that at the auction for the set and props from the TV series The Prisoner. :D

That looks like two bikes that have been rigged together. They look like fairly common euro folding bikes.

Graziella was perhaps the top selling bike in Italy in the 60's and early 70's. You can see them everywhere even today. They made many bikes that were destined for the vacationing Italians at the beach, including tandems, triplets and quads (perhaps even more that that but those are the ones that I have seen). Most of their bikes had a folding hinge in the middle to allow them to fit in the small Italian cars of the time. I have never seen a surrey model exactly like the one that you show, but it would be much more simple to build it than to build an in-line quad, so I expect it was built by Graziella for a special market.

I'd think stearing that thing would be an adventure. "I want to go straight" / "I want to go left"

-- edit: upon closer look it appears that the bars are linked. At first the tire angles looked different in the picture but perhaps that's a tire to stem issue more than anything.

I'd think stearing that thing would be an adventure. "I want to go straight" / "I want to go left"

-- edit: upon closer look it appears that the bars are linked. At first the tire angles looked different in the picture but perhaps that's a tire to stem issue more than anything.

The handlebars on the right (facing out) were non-steering. As a kid, the adventure occurred before the bike ride ... "My turn to steer, no you steered last time etc" :D

pmb333

I have a Graziella (bought it on Ebay) but it is only a single bike.

Here's a picture of it: www.jmbzine.com/graphics/bicycles/sm-dec2005-graziella1.jpg

does anyone have any idea what the value of this bike

That is a Graziella Rickshaw. Here is an advertisement that shows it. Probably from the late 60s early 70s.