IRD Semi-Stroker Flashback

IRD almost made the big-time, way back when in something called a magazine.  Anywho, the IRD bikes were interesting solutions to problems most bike designers ignored.  Hop forward to today and you see lots of these solutions making a reappearance; the long fronts and short rears and highish bottom brackets never went away--and possibly saw somewhat more graceful and useful applications by EWR and Neville Corke--but now they are new and hot and hip on all these fancy schmancy full squishy bikes in the 21st century.