Author: Luther H. Porter Publisher: Read Books Ltd ISBN: 1473342201 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 413
Book Description
This book contains a vintage guide to cycling. Published at the time when cycling first became popular, this volume offers a fascinating insight into the sport's history and development, containing chapters on such subjects as tricycles, uncommon and unconventional bicycles, the first innovations in suspension, and more. With over two hundred illustrations, "The Steel Horse" is highly recommended for cycling enthusiasts and is not to be missed by collectors. Contents include: "Cycling in the United States", "League of American Wheelmen", "Macadam Roads", "History of the Bicycle", "Tricycles", "Sociables and Tandems", "Peculiar Cycles", "Anti-Vibration Devices", "American Designs", "English Designs", "Pneumatic and Cushion Tires", "Our Advertisers", "Cycle Directory", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the History of the Bicycle.
Author: Luther Henry Porter Publisher: Hansebooks ISBN: 9783337637729 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Wheels and wheeling - an indispensable handbook for cyclists is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author: Luther Henry Porter Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780282455590 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 426
Book Description
Excerpt from Wheels and Wheeling: An Indispensable Handbook for Cyclists The writer's_ experience began with, the use of the two-wheeled velocip'ede, or boneshaker, in 1870, and he commenced to ride the high bicycle in 1880. Since then he has entered into every phase of the sport, and owned, 'or ridden, nearly every type of machine. The changes that have taken place in this period have been many and great, and old things have very generally passed away. In fact, so Obsolete are many of the types that were common only five years ago, that but a very small proportion of those now rid ing ever heard of them, and much less saw them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Luther H. Porter
Author: LUTHER HENRY. PORTER
Author: Luther Henry Porter
Author: Luther Henry Porter
Author: Luther Henry Porter
Author: Detroit Public Library
Author: Detroit Public Library
Author: Detroit Public Library
Author: Detroit Public Library
Author: League of American Wheelmen