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 124
be compelled to return gradually to thisor some other device for raising up, in-cluding the long draw-out of the stemwhich used to be characteristic about sixyears ago. 102 CHAPTER XII. HANDLEBARS, GRIPS AND BRAKES. The old-time handlebar was almost in-variably passed directly through… … oblong shape, slipped upon the end of thehollow tube, which has become so familiarand has hardly changed except in thematerial used to make it. Concerning the length of bar—more prop-erly, width, since the point is the measure-ment in a direct line between the grips—the London Cyclist, in a long…
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