Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 139
require five per cent, of the force applied, and thepace was painfully slow. In a trial against time, fiveof us working, we occupied over seven minutes in rid- … ing a mile on a cinder path. Had the machine beengeared up highly, a good pace could have been gotout of it. SOCIABLES AND TANDEMS. 119 There were, it would appear, many other machinesof unique character, fantastic design, and peculiarconstruction, of which we have little definite informa-tion…
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