Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 192
with it PECULIAR CYCLES. I7I is raised, which action consequently causes the bandupon that side to become slack, when, of course, theother wheel, remaining in gear, drives round its com-panion, and thus the machine may be turned in eitherdirection as required. This action is facilitated muchby the… … The Racoon Bicycle. the main axle, at its junction with a tubular tail* orsupport, which falls away rearward, and ends in asmall roller, serving to support the rider should helose his balance backward. A machine which in outline of frame somewhatresembled the Kangaroo type, but which had a…
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