The Wheel and cycling trade review . wouldnt think of wearing smooth-soledrubber shoes. All rubbers have embossed orcorrugated soles to give a firm tread; we doprecisely the same thing with our rubber tiresand for the very same reason. WILL GET MORE FOR THEIR MONEY. The people who purchase $75 wheels aroundChristmas time, or early in the season, saida tradesman who is usually logical, and whoknows what he is talking about, will getbetter value for their money than they evergot before. Nearly all the $100 machineswhich were carried over this year will bechanged in one or two petty details andwo
The Wheel and cycling trade review . wouldnt think of wearing smooth-soledrubber shoes. All rubbers have embossed orcorrugated soles to give a firm tread; we doprecisely the same thing with our rubber tiresand for the very same reason. WILL GET MORE FOR THEIR MONEY. The people who purchase $75 wheels aroundChristmas time, or early in the season, saida tradesman who is usually logical, and whoknows what he is talking about, will getbetter value for their money than they evergot before. Nearly all the $100 machineswhich were carried over this year will bechanged in one or two petty details andworked off as $75 wheels. A SHINING EXAMPLE. Every one is anxious to shine in this world;the bright parts of a bicycle are inanimate,but they, too, must shine. This lustre addsbeauty to the wheel. To nickel-plate properlyhas become an art, and while much dependson the manual labor expended, without properapparatus and materials the most skilful couldscarcely hope to accomplish good results. Thepicture shows where such necessaries are. made—the factory of the Hanson & Van Win-kle Co., on Market street, in Newark, N. firm is so old and well known that prac-tically every one must be aware that they arein position to meet the every want of thenickel-plater, from the complete paraphernaliaof a complete nickel-plating establishment tothe simplest salt used in the solution. 1896. 53 MAP MILES AND CYCLOMETER you ever hear two riders discussing—or, rather, cussing—the variation existing be-tween the miles recorded by their tired mus-cles and those recorded by their cyclometers?Surely, you must have, and you could nothave failed to notice that invariably it wasclaimed that the record of the former wasgreater than that of the latter. In otherwords, the cussers did not believe that they
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