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1890's bicycle

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1890's bicycle

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Postby JMN2 » January 14th, 2018, 12:03 pm

I am currently reading a study of sorts with notes and sources from newspapers from 1896 in Minnesota USA, in the story there features a bike being used in a bank robbery getaway. As a side note it seems that bicycles were quite widely used in general for long distance traveling across state lines, cyclists often favouring short knickerbocker trousers.

One bicycle identified was "a Lovell diamond frame racer, high geared, with very low handle bars, gotten up for speed".

A photo shows a bike similar to this http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/1912-2/1912-lovell-diamond-truss-frame-roadster/ but without the double bar (truss?) and the handlebars are more modern, similar to this modern shape https://coresites-cdn.factorymedia.com/rcuk/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Cyrano-Handlebar_R3_Bull_w_7091.jpg.

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Re: 1890's bicycle

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Postby JMN2 » January 14th, 2018, 2:37 pm

The bicycle also had a "cyclometer" which showed the distance travelled in miles.


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