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 61
dsprockets, neither of which could clear theforks of a wheel with forty-four-inch wheelbase and straight forks, both of these lastbeing, for good reasons, mechanical fea-tures of no little value. The Keating frame curves the diagonalstay just before it reaches the crank hangerand the Racycle also… … 40 COLUMBIA FORK CROWN. the Howard do not believe in raking thediagonal Stay as much as some others do. Both of these makers make the head of theframe at an angle of twenty degrees fromthe perpendicular in order to produce easy steering qualities, and they bring the angleof the diagonal stay only…
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