The Modern bicycle and its accessories; a complete reference book for rider, dealer, and maker (1898)
Schwalbach, Alexander, Wilcox, Julius, Commercial advertiser association, New York · New York, The Commercial advertiser association · leaf 111
plain gearratio or gear, which is a phrase not gen-erally well understood, although in constantuse; for instance, women have been knownto ask balers for a wheel with low gear,because they liked to be seated near theground. The term gear, which is an adap-tation from the old high wheel, expressesthe… … DO CuOCK DIAGRAM ORDINARY PEDAL given site of wheel—solely on the relativeBile of the two sprockets, as measured bythe number of their teeth. For example.if the front sprocket has 20 teeth and thepear has S, it. is plain that each tooth of theformer will pull a tooth of the latter; sowhen the…
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