Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations (1892)
Porter, Luther Henry · Boston, Wheelman Company · leaf 84
d light roadster weighed forty-five pounds, HISTORY OF THE BICYCLE. H though this was too heavy by several pounds to reallydeserve the name. As in weight, so in fittings, finish, and all mattersof detail connected with the machine, modificationsand improvements were slight but constant up toabout… … Ordinary Bicycle—i£ to the pedals; and last (by some makers only), to thehead. The early nippled and nutted spokes werereplaced by the direct and the various forms oftangent. The tubing used for backbone, forks,and bar was changed in shape, gauge, and diameter.Twenty-inch straight handle bars…
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