The Wheel and cycling trade review . riosity has gotten somuch the best of me that I must venture aquestion. What is it? Are you a gentleman going golfing or alady going cycling? [896. Supplement to The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review. HAIL COLUMBIA! Heres the New Things the Pope People Offer for the Year to Come. Samples of the 97 Columbias and Hartfordsreached the Pope Manufacturing CompanysNew-York branch on Monday of this week. THE WHEEL was last week enabled tobriefly but exclusively touch on the mostprominent changes in mechanical detail,but until the wheels were publicly exhibitedthis we
The Wheel and cycling trade review . riosity has gotten somuch the best of me that I must venture aquestion. What is it? Are you a gentleman going golfing or alady going cycling? [896. Supplement to The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review. HAIL COLUMBIA! Heres the New Things the Pope People Offer for the Year to Come. Samples of the 97 Columbias and Hartfordsreached the Pope Manufacturing CompanysNew-York branch on Monday of this week. THE WHEEL was last week enabled tobriefly but exclusively touch on the mostprominent changes in mechanical detail,but until the wheels were publicly exhibitedthis week particulars were not possible. In general appearance the new Columbiadoes not differ materially from that of previ-ous years. The lines of the frame remain about thesame; the wheel base is 42 inches, and theframes 22, 24 and 26 inches in height; flushjoints have been used for the first time how-ever. In tubing, lVa inch is used for the mainframe, while the head is I14 inches; the upperrear stays are 9-16. and the lower rear stays. are tapered from % at the crank-hanger to% at the rear. They are flattened ovally, be-ginning at about 2 inches back of the crank-hanger, where they are bent or offset. Inlast years wheel the lower rear stays wereperfectly straight. The fork crown is of the double plate va-riety, but flush with the fork sides, and ismade handsomer in appearance by the inser-tion of a nickel piece, in the space between theplates usually left open, thus making it possi-ble to use this as a personal crank-hanger has a one and seven-eighths inch drop, a trifle more than in thepast. In the construction of the wheels properthere are some radical departures; the hubsare tubular, and, instead of the usual spoke
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