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aetsmith
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Murdoch Mysteries: The Murdoch Identity (2010)
Episode 1, Season 3
Period error with modern bicycle
2 April 2024
Murdoch 'borrows' a bicycle with modern cable brake handles, disc brake in front and back and straight handle bars and modern slick tyre and steel pedals.
For example, disc brakes were only used on bicycles from 1993.
Straight handle bars only came in to use in the 1960s.
Bit disappointing. Surely it would not have been that difficult to obtain an old bicycle for use in the shooting of the episode.
It would also not have been too difficult to get an engineering firm to modify a mountain bike to look like an old bike so that they could ride down the stairs without damage - which why, I suspect, they used a modern mountain bike.
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