Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 82
s fitted with a leverbar and cross tension spokes designed to take the strainoff the spokes and convey it directly from axle to rim.A ladys bicycle with lever pedals on the left sideand forkless backbone was said to have been also HISTORY OF THE BICYCLE. 61 introduced; but the acquaintance of the… … Ordinary Bicycle—1876. Both the velocipede and bicycle had been in use up toabout 1874, but about that time the transition to thetrue bicycle type was pretty well under way and wascompleted about 1876, when one of the principalhouses in the trade showed an illustration like that here 62 WHEELS AMD…
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