Cycling art, energy and locomotion: a series of remarks on the development of bicycles, tricycles, and man-motor carriages (1889)
Scott, Robert Pittis · Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott · leaf 127
es is objectionable in a bicycle, because the con-stant working of the steering-bar for the purpose ofbalancing is so continuous, as compared with that ofsteering pure and simple, that any force tending tohold it in any one position will soon tire the arms andmake riding more laborious. A new form… … The Rothigiesser principle. Can be ridden any distance and on any road without usingthe handle-bar. The new principle—pedals on the rear wheeland saddle on the front wheel—is just the reverse of the con-struction of the ordinary bicycle, and is the only true principlefor a Safety ; the fault of the…
Cycling · Bicycles
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