Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 104
F THE BICYCLE. S3 steering and the rear one driving by means of a singlechain. But the Kangaroo was soon driven fromthe field; all makers brought out Rover patternmachines; the word Rover gradually lost its mean-ing as the designation of the type, and the wordSafety replaced it. Not long… … Antelope Safety—1885. hardly necessary any longer as the designation of aclass or type, for its class preponderated so greatly asto become almost universal, and the general termbicycle was applied to it. If the high wheel wasmentioned, it was spoken of as the ordinary or highbicycle. The…
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