Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 178
inches to 3 inches in-diameter, is affixed by means of screws, which saidwheel is fitted with a set of ratchet teeth on its circum-ference. Outside this again, and on the same bear-ing, is pivoted one end of a 12-inch crank, or ratherlever, having a pedal at its other end, and a pawl nearthe… … Eagle Bicycle down stroke of one draws the other up. The effectof this arrangement is to place the pedals almost im-mediately beneath the rider, while the action is apowerful one, and the feet can be kept still at pleas-ure, the wheel being free to revolve independently ofthe pedals. Of course one…
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