Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . bout forty-eight and twenty-four inch wheels andbuilt almost wholly of metal and rubber. In 1873 there was produced by Starley, the Fatherof the Bicycle, about the first machine embodying Ariel Bicycle—1873. most of the features which are found in the modemordinary bicycle. In the Ariel were embodied all thegood points then known, the machine being on themost approved lines, constructed of metal and rubber,and with new features, such as a step; forks carried upto the handle bar; and the wheels fi
Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . bout forty-eight and twenty-four inch wheels andbuilt almost wholly of metal and rubber. In 1873 there was produced by Starley, the Fatherof the Bicycle, about the first machine embodying Ariel Bicycle—1873. most of the features which are found in the modemordinary bicycle. In the Ariel were embodied all thegood points then known, the machine being on themost approved lines, constructed of metal and rubber,and with new features, such as a step; forks carried upto the handle bar; and the wheels fitted with a leverbar and cross tension spokes designed to take the strainoff the spokes and convey it directly from axle to 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 publicwith it was doubtless limited to the introduction. The feature of cross tension spokes did notbecome permanent, but in other respects the Ariel wasa good representative of the new type of 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 WHEELING. given, of what they called their Perfect machine was wholly of metal, except the saddleblock, brake cord, and tires. It had the high head,short handle bars, and great bowed spring characteristicof the time; and it possessed considerable rake, amplefoot rests, and a rear brake. Roughly speaking, itsgeneral outline resembled somewhat the principlefeatures of the Rational ordinary of 1890. But few changes were required after this to producethe most highly developed form of the modern or-dinary bicycle, and they were soon incorporated inthe machine. The front wheel was incre
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