LandRider derailleurs

LandRider, a brand owned by Venture Cycle of Baltimore, Maryland, appear to have picked up where AutoBike left off, marketing the stroke of genius that is the automatic derailleur.

They seem to continue with this charmingly hopeless project to this day, and have a website with some entertainingly cheesy video.

Thankfully, they also continue the long derailleur tradition of using brand names with an inexplicable capital letter in the middle of the word.

LandRider Auto Shift derailleur thumbnail

LandRider Auto Shift red 2002?

LandRider Auto Shift blue 2003?

see also US Patent # 5,163,881 - AutoBike 1991

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: application filed December 1991
Derailleur brands: AutoBike, LandRider, manufactured by Falcon
Derailleurs: AutoBike, AutoBike Smartshift 2000, LandRider Auto Shift red, LandRider Auto Shift blue

US Patent 5,163,881 - AutoBike SmartShift thumbnail

see also US Patent # 5,295,916 - AutoBike 1992

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: application filed November 1992
Derailleur brands: AutoBike, LandRider, manufactured by Falcon
Derailleurs: AutoBike, AutoBike Smartshift 2000, LandRider Auto Shift red, LandRider Auto Shift blue

US Patent 5,295,916 - AutoBike SmartShift thumbnail

see also US Patent # 5,445,567 - AutoBike 1994

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: application filed March 1994
Derailleur brands: AutoBike, LandRider, manufactured by Falcon
Derailleurs: AutoBike, AutoBike Smartshift 2000, LandRider Auto Shift red, LandRider Auto Shift blue

US Patent 5,445,567 - AutoBike SmartShift thumbnail

Publisher: Taiwan Intellectual Property Office
Date: Priority date May 1997
Derailleur brands: Falcon, AutoBike, LandRider
Derailleurs: unknown

Taiwan patent 341,218 - Falcon thumbnail

see also US Patent # 6,015,360 - Falcon 1998

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: Priority date June 1998
Derailleur brands: Falcon, AutoBike, LandRider
Derailleurs: unknown

Publisher: US Patent and Trademark Office
Date: application filed January 2001
Derailleur brands: LandRider
Derailleurs: nothing specific

US Trademark Application 76194179 - Land Rider thumbnail

LandRider - owner’s manual 2002

Publisher: LandRider
Date: 2002
Derailleur brands: LandRider
Derailleurs: LandRider Auto Shift red, LandRider Auto Shift blue

LandRider - owners manual scan 1 thumbnail

LandRider - web site 2008

Publisher: LandRider
Date: 2008
Derailleur brands: LandRider
Derailleurs: LandRider Auto Shift red, LandRider Auto Shift blue

Discover LandRider 2009

Publisher: LandRider
Date: 2009
Derailleur brands: LandRider, manufactured by Falcon
Derailleurs: LandRider Auto Shift red, LandRider Auto Shift blue

LandRider - Discover LandRider thumbnail

LandRider - Testimonials (7 episodes) 2009

Publisher: LandRider
Date: 2009
Derailleur brands: LandRider, manufactured by Falcon
Derailleurs: LandRider Auto Shift red, LandRider Auto Shift blue

LandRider Around the World 2009

Publisher: LandRider
Date: 2009
Derailleur brands: LandRider, manufactured by Falcon
Derailleurs: LandRider Auto Shift red, LandRider Auto Shift blue

LandRider Auto Shift gear 2009

Publisher: LandRider
Date: 2009
Derailleur brands: LandRider, manufactured by Falcon
Derailleurs: LandRider Auto Shift red, LandRider Auto Shift blue

LandRider AutoShift & Comfort Bicycles 2009

Publisher: LandRider
Date: 2009
Derailleur brands: LandRider, manufactured by Falcon
Derailleurs: LandRider Auto Shift red, LandRider Auto Shift blue

LandRider AutoShift & Comfort Bicycles thumbnail

LandRider Customer Service 2009

Publisher: LandRider
Date: 2009
Derailleur brands: LandRider, manufactured by Falcon
Derailleurs: LandRider Auto Shift red, LandRider Auto Shift blue

Publisher: Taiwan External Trade Development Council
Date: 2020
Derailleur brands: Falcon, SunRace, SRAM, AutoBike, LandRider
Derailleurs: AutoBike Classic, Falcon Automatic Derailleur (AD-30), AutoBike SmartShift 2000, LandRider Auto Shift, Falcon Novel (MR-40A), SunRace R80? (SR-598), Falcon Volante (RD-VS), SunRace M30 (RDM30LD), SunRace Juju M90 (M95), SRAM X.0 (913-300)