Swing Bike
The Swing Bike is a brand of bicycle which allowed for steering at both the front wheel and the rear wheel.{{cite web | url = http://swingbike.byethost24.com/bobhufford/swingbig.jpg | title = Swing Bike (original advertisement) | date = August 1976 | work = Boys' Life | accessdate = 2012-07-19}}{{cite web | url = http://swingbikerider.com/ | title = The Swing Bike Rider | date = 2012 | accessdate = 2012-07-19}} The design was patented by Ralph Belden in 1974,{{cite web | url = http://swingbike.byethost24.com/bobhufford/swingpat.html | title = United States Patent #3,801,130: BICYCLE WITH PIVOTABLE REAR WHEEL | quote = A two wheeled, rider propelled vehicle having both wheels pivotably mounted upon a medial principal frame.| accessdate = 2012-07-19}} brought to market in 1975, and discontinued by 1978.{{cite web | url = http://swingbike.byethost24.com/bobhufford/swing.html | title = Swing Bike: The Wackiest Thing on Two Wheels | author = Bob Hufford | date = July 11, 2010 | accessdate = 2012-07-19}}
A swingbike or swing bike (common noun) has been genericized to come to mean any bike with a second steering axis in front of the saddle.{{cite news | url = http://lubbockonline.com/regional/2012-07-14/hockley-county-celebrates-settlers-day#.UAhG0LQS218 | title = Hockley County celebrates Settlers Day | quote = Kyle Drennan rides his swing bike in the Hockley County Celebration parade in Levelland Saturday. | date = July 14, 2012 | author = Stephen Spillman | newspaper = Lubbock Avalanche-Journal | accessdate = 2012-07-19}}{{cite web | url = http://www.bikeforest.com/homebuild18.php | title = Swing bike | quote = This is George Aitken riding his swing bike in the Canada Day parade in Cambridge, Ontario. | publisher = Bicycle Forest | accessdate = 2012-07-19}} A new bicycle by the same name has been launched by Americas Bike Co. in San Diego, California.{{cite news | url = https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-swingbike13dec13-story.html | title = Wheels for swingers | quote = Americas Bike Co. is banking on its hinged design to catch on with riders. | date = December 13, 2007 | author = Jerry Hirsch | newspaper = Los Angeles Times | access-date = 2012-07-19}}
The original Swing Bike was in the wheelie bike style,{{cite web | url = http://swingbike.byethost24.com/bobhufford/swbroch.html | title = Swing Bike Brochure | accessdate = 2012-07-19}} and the Swing Bike company also offered a normally-steered BMX bike in 1977.{{cite web | url = http://swingbike.byethost24.com/bobhufford/swbmx.html | title = Swing Bike BMX Bike | accessdate = 2012-07-19}} An early working name for the Swing Bike as Pivicycle.{{cite web | url = http://swingbike.byethost24.com/bobhufford/earlymagref.html | title = Early Swing Bike (Pivicycle) Magazine Reference! | publisher = American Bicyclist and Motorcyclist | date = 1971 | accessdate = 2012-07-19}}