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Identifier: wheelswheelingin00port (find matches)
Title: Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Porter, Luther Henry
Subjects: Cycling Bicycles
Publisher: Boston, Wheelman Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Eclipse Spring Fork Safety. accomplished, which is simply to change the positionof the coasters by means of a wrench, up or down thefork, is another strong point of merit. I92 WHEELS AND WHEELING. The Eclipse, as originally built, as here shown, had4spring forks made of the best crucible spring steel,tempered in oil and fitted with adjustable coasters thatcan be raised or lowered so as to change the tensionof the spring to suit the rider. The Kenwood Safety is fitted with springs to thefront fork, in regard to which they say that they seem
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Kenwood Spring Fork. to have been more fortunate than other makers.Kenwoods are the only spring fork machines on themarket to-day in which the front wheel stays where itbelongs. It will not strike the fork, sides, and trackssteadily. We have avoided the cheap makeshift of acone, or taper joint, and use instead a perfect ballbearing joint, such as is used in the wheel hubs. ANTI-VIBRATION DEVICES. 193 Nothing can be more accurate and firm, and at thesame time an entirely free joint is secured. We usefour springs instead of two, and have by a very simplearrangement provided for the adjustment of the springtension to suit the requirements of the rider. By thismeans a man weighing two hundred pounds can in amoment arrange the tension so that he can have thedegree of spring he desires, and -without the leasttrouble can rearrange it in a moment to suit a hundredpound boy.,, The New Mail Safety bicycle has a spring fork, orrather a spring inserted in the tube above the front

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  • bookdecade:1890
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Porter__Luther_Henry
  • booksubject:Cycling
  • booksubject:Bicycles
  • bookpublisher:Boston__Wheelman_Company
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
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  • bookleafnumber:213
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