The Wheel and cycling trade review . er hands. I hear various reasons assigned,but I will probably be very near the truthwhen I surmise that these firms have takenumbrage at the Corporation deciding to usea full line of its own wheels—the Dunlop—infirst and second grades. These machines arebuilt for them by the Cycle Components Man-ufacturing Company, and already J. has made them famous by his brill-iant riding on a second grader. The J. C. balance-sheet is nearly due, and is ex-pected to be a good one, but I hae ma doots,as the Scotchman said. About the beginning of the year the
The Wheel and cycling trade review . er hands. I hear various reasons assigned,but I will probably be very near the truthwhen I surmise that these firms have takenumbrage at the Corporation deciding to usea full line of its own wheels—the Dunlop—infirst and second grades. These machines arebuilt for them by the Cycle Components Man-ufacturing Company, and already J. has made them famous by his brill-iant riding on a second grader. The J. C. balance-sheet is nearly due, and is ex-pected to be a good one, but I hae ma doots,as the Scotchman said. About the beginning of the year the Os-mond people brought out a new design intandems to meet the desire gradually grow-ing for a machine on which the lady occupiesthe rear saddle. I saw that machine then, sothat I must confess that I was much sur-prised to find in the Raleigh depot in Not-tingham a tandem on exactly similar specialties in the way of D sectionforks and the single bottom backbone areeliminated. This is the Raleigh tandem re-ferred to:. It is claimed that the machine is even morerigid than an ordinary racing tandem,though no reasons were given me, and I cansee none beyond the weight, which is 55pounds, as compared to 40. The chief di-mensions are 26-inch front frame, 21-inchback, 5%-inch rear tread and 66% gear. The Coventry Machinists shareholders metthe other day and talked a good deal aboutannulling their contract to sell their com-pany, made some months ago, because thepurchase had not been completed so far ashanding over the coin went. That they hadsome reason on their side is, I think, shownby the fact that the purchasers who havenot completed their part of the agreementwill become possessed of £54,000 which hasbeen earned in profits since the transfer wasagreed on. FOR SOCIABILITYS SAKE. Humber & Co., that is, the American fact-ory, are experimenting with a companion orsociable bicycle, and will probabl- market alimited number next season. COLORED UP. Wheneer he had punctu
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