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Article: Bicycle inventor has the last laugh. (Billie Joe Becoat invents two-wheel drive bicycle and secures patent in 32 countries)
- Article from:
- Ebony
- Article date:
- June 1, 1993
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Billie Joe Becoat's "Two-Wheel Drive" is first major bike innovation in 70 years
THEY laughed when Billie Joe Becoat first rode his son's bike.
Every evening, after a long day at work, he would come home and tinker with the bike. He would tell anyone who would listen that he had invented something extraordinary. But his Alton, Ill., neighbors only saw a grown man huffing and puffing on a kid's bike.
"It was a little embarrassing," Becoat says. "People were looking, and I knew what they were thinking: "That man has lost his mind.' My wife wondering too. And all I could say to her was, 'But, baby, you don't understand.'"
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