Identifier: bicyclingworld151887bost (find matches)
Title: The bicycling world
Year: 1881 (1880s)
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Subjects: Bicycles Cycling
Publisher: Boston : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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e rider, having thrown his bicycleinto the water, dived after it, swam across and landed on the otherside. He then rode over three or four miles of very rough andvaried country, including ploughed fields and swamp meadows, andhaving recrossed the river, regained Hanwell by some very roughlanes, lifting his machine over closed gates. Altogether he cov-ered a distance of about five miles, and his time was little morethan 41 minutes. Subsequently, a few well-known cyclists whowere among the visitors tried the machine, and rode over the mostuneven ground, up and down short and sharp hills and over bricksand other obstructions in a manner that greatly surprised the mil-itary men and others who were present. One of the participants sends us the following description of atrip on Singer Victoria: The first successful tour on the Vic-toria six-in-hand in this country was indulged in by Messrs. E. G. 16 Sept., 1887, THE BICYCLING WORLD 369 THE tUDGE CI;E3CE;VT TjNDEM. * SEND FOR 1887 Catalogue.
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* SEND FOR 1887 Catalogue. «4SUITABLE FOR LADIES OR GENTLEMEN^* SAFE, PRACTICABLE, FAST. ^toddordp Loveriiig ( Co. p BOSTON, IHASS. 370 THE BICYCLING WORLD 16 Sept., 1887. TO THE TRADE UNLIKE PST niHNUFHCTUREBS, We are perfectly willing to, and, in fact, glad to sell parts of ourWheels to any regularly appointed agent or repairer, to whom, there-fore, we shall be most happy to send Our Special Catalog of Parts on Application. Zxi Matter of Suzidries, We are also glad to accommodate the general trade in localitieswhere our Agent does not carry a general line. We Make e Specially of this Branch of the manufacture, and offer a line of Cycling Accessories, which invariety and usefulness cannot be dupUcated by any competing house.Call on us. 0 lELY \ Y 0 J ) CHICAGO, - Largest Manufacturers of Cycles and Sundries in America. 16 Sept., 1887. THE BICYCLING WORLD 371 Whitney, Edward S. Wheeler, Nathaniel Heath, Charles H. Merrill,Fred H. Ruggles and W. H. Edmands. We selected for the trip th

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