The pleasures, objects, and advantages of cycling : with numerous illustrations (1887)
Wilson, A. J., Cyclist · London : Iliffe & Son · leaf 49
d up or level at will. 32 THE PLEASURES OF CYCLING. On the Kangaroo bicycle I have done but short rides.George Smith lent me his machine—the one upon which hewon the famous ioo miles road race—for a week, last Decem-ber, and after riding it for three days the intense vibration laidme up with… … THE KANGAROO SAFETY BICYCLE. wheels outside the hubs, that they have not sufficient dish tostand the work put upon them. I know they are fast, and easyto manage ; I won two prizes on a roadster, borrowed for theoccasion, at Tunbridge Wells ; but the excessive arm-work re-quired to hold the…
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