The Wheel and cycling trade review . flanges, are fitted with studs, in which thespokes radiate in a perfectly straight line,thus avoiding bending of the spokes. Thesestuds are rivet-headed, inserted from the in-side and held in place by. a supplementarycollar; the distance between the spokes isnarrowed down to 2y2 inches. Twenty-eightspokes are used in the front wheel, andthirty-six in the rear, and are set a littlemore tangent, and are made of slightly heav-ier gauged wire than was heretofore used onthe light Columbia wheels. The handle-barclip is about the same shape as was seen onthe 96 wh
The Wheel and cycling trade review . flanges, are fitted with studs, in which thespokes radiate in a perfectly straight line,thus avoiding bending of the spokes. Thesestuds are rivet-headed, inserted from the in-side and held in place by. a supplementarycollar; the distance between the spokes isnarrowed down to 2y2 inches. Twenty-eightspokes are used in the front wheel, andthirty-six in the rear, and are set a littlemore tangent, and are made of slightly heav-ier gauged wire than was heretofore used onthe light Columbia wheels. The handle-barclip is about the same shape as was seen onthe 96 wheel, but the detached triangulardog has been done away with, and the pointof contact with the bar threaded, which al-lows of very much more rigid adjustmentthan in the past. A noticeable feature is that a wider sectionof wood rim has been used; heretofore anunusually narrow rim has been employedby the Pope Manufacturing Company. The chain adjustment is very neatly de-vised; it is practically hidden from view,being on the inner side
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