Sir Frank Bowden, the founder and owner of the Raleigh Bicycle Company was reputed to have started replacing the rigid rods used for bicycle brakes with a flexible wound cable around 1902.
Ernest Monnington Bowden (1860–1904), Irishman who invented the Bowden mechanism
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