I guess it's probably French, most cycling
toys are, and while it looks like the Britains
one, it also looks like several other ones! I think the rider's posed
most like the Britains one, although the hats wrong however and
pose is where the similarities end as . . .
. . . this chap is articulated, and
attached to a offset-cam wheel mechanism which forces the raider to pedal
furiously as you push the bike across a smooth by slightly gripping surface -
shiny kitchen worktops don't cut it!
Also of interest is the juxtaposition of materials, metal handlebars, clipped to a - possibly - polypropylene frame with a hard styrene rider - everything then held together by the glue on his hands.
Close-ups of the mechanisms by which the
rider pedals, and you don't want to know how he's fixed to the frame, but we
Brits killed a king with a similar novelty - ouch!
Briefer than I'd like today as my Britains cyclists are in storage (and
not a great sample!) so I can't expand with comparison-shots and such like, so I've
also added a pistol to the jig-toy page and another figurine to the Goebel 'Mainzelmännchen' post.
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