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Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)

Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 110

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is thg HISTORY OF THE BICYCLE. 89 machine known as the Hickory, its name being takenfrom the material of which its wheels and frame aremade. It was at first made only as a drop frame,though a diamond frame has since been built. It iswell made and finely finished, and has many goodfeatures. Metal is… … Drop Frame Safety. in high wheels—the geared ordinary—was described.The company which introduced it have also produceda chainless Safety, in which essentially the same gear isused, and applied to the front wheel. This gives apractically equal-wheeled machine which is both frontdriver and steerer,…

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