This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...Ivel (Dan Albone), Lightning (Lightning Cycle Co.). Both these are, however, confined to gentlemen, owing to the shape of the frame-work; but the former, and one type (there are several) of the latter carry the steering connection parallel with the main tube, so that there is no high bar. Sociables seem out of date in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...Ivel (Dan Albone), Lightning (Lightning Cycle Co.). Both these are, however, confined to gentlemen, owing to the shape of the frame-work; but the former, and one type (there are several) of the latter carry the steering connection parallel with the main tube, so that there is no high bar. Sociables seem out of date in 1890. They would have been in 1888; but at the Stanley Show of 1889, two or three, on a new and improved plan, were shown, and attracted much attention. They reminded one very much of a machine by Markham, at a Stanley Show of many years ago, as a skit on the prevailing craze, as it was then considered, for small wheels. The joke has become earnest, and there is likely to be a good deal heard of the new Sociables, which are rapidly taken up by a number of makers. Instead of sitting, as on the old-time machines, between the wheels, the riders sit over the wheels. This permits a much narrower wheel base, and the machines are barely as wide as a single tricycle. That of J. K. Starley and Co., Limited (see Fig. 44) is perhaps best known; it is a tricycle suitable for ladies or gentlemen--the machines are joined by a framework having one central pilot-wheel. Rudge has one with four wheels, 28-inch drivers, 20-inch front, suitable for two ladies; Aston Brothers make an excellent one by joining two Safeties by a simple but efficient frame, and call it the Twins, -It is the four-wheeler form that is most likely to meet with general approval, but it requires a more carefully arranged frame-work. The machine gives the advantages of sociability of the old Sociable, without the fatal objection of great width, excessive weight, or slow speed inseparable from that most unwieldy of machines. The Carrier (see Fig. 45) concludes the long list of types; it is mo..
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