The pleasures, objects, and advantages of cycling : with numerous illustrations (1887)
Wilson, A. J., Cyclist · London : Iliffe & Son · leaf 40
OF SAFETY BICYCLING. 23 legs could clear such a short bar when executing an involuntarydismount forwards. I found this true, when one evening, tra-versing a suburban street, a large retriever rushed out of ashop, and across the roadway, at exactly the moment of mypassage in the transverse direction… … THE XTRA SAFETY BICYCLE. approved of them on the ground that a longer bar would havegiven me sufficient control over my wheel to have steered outof his way. This may be so. Dogs are intelligent animals. I well recollect the sensation that was produced at theAgricultural Hali when the first Xtra…
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