The Wheel and cycling trade review . amp; K. Health Cycle Saddle is thetitle of a neat pamphlet issued by the Graton& Knight Manufacturing Company, Worcester,Mass., describing their line of bicycle concern was established in 1850, as man-ufacturers of oak-tanned leather, and their ex-perience in this direction alone should putthem in the front rank in the saddle new forms are shown, of which thePerry and the Murdock contain the most novelfeatures, the former having a longitudinallydivided top of unique design, while the latterschief point is a deep grove or channel a
The Wheel and cycling trade review . amp; K. Health Cycle Saddle is thetitle of a neat pamphlet issued by the Graton& Knight Manufacturing Company, Worcester,Mass., describing their line of bicycle concern was established in 1850, as man-ufacturers of oak-tanned leather, and their ex-perience in this direction alone should putthem in the front rank in the saddle new forms are shown, of which thePerry and the Murdock contain the most novelfeatures, the former having a longitudinallydivided top of unique design, while the latterschief point is a deep grove or channel along itspommel, which, they claim, avoids any pres-sure upon the perineum in riding. Other stylesare illustrated, making a very complete va-riety, and the book should prove useful to anymanufacturers in the market for the com-panys product. AN OLD IDEA is the latest English adaptation of thefamous American Broncho, a wheel whichwas expected to play hob with cycling in gen-eral, but compromised in the end by doing so. with the bank accounts of its backers. May-be the English will succeed with the machinewhich Americans could only attain a failure,then again maybe they, too, will fail. BOTH FEET OFF THE GROUND. Certainly no one in our present year ofgrace sees anything wonderful in self-propul-sion on two wheels with both feet off theground; yet when the matter is consideredattentively it forces the admission that theman who first conceived and carried intopractice so bold an action must have beenboth a wonderful and a daring man. A Scotch blacksmith named McMillan, in1840, appeared before the astonished eyes ofGlasgow on a velocipede, formed on twowheels in line, two pedals and two handles,having ridden the seventy miles from Keir,Dumfriesshire. As in the case of many an-other innovator, the authorities treated Mc-Millan as a dangerous lunatic. He was lockedup in jail and released only on the promisethat he would not do so any more. The McMillan of to-day, seeking t
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