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(DIR) Post #AtPUm8OVaiET1DtY5A by morgan@sfba.social
2025-04-24T05:42:38Z
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I'm starting a new political party. Want to join? It's called #biketooter. But first we need a better name. THE BICYCLE OF THE FUTURE,What an Eastern Writer Thinks They Will Look Like in 1993.The bicycle of 1993 will be built on very much the same lines as the safety of 1893 - i.e., with two small wheels very nearly of a size, says a writer in the Scranton Truth. This was the plan of the first machine built in 1817, and now after a lapse of seventy-six years we have come back to the original design. A machine on this plan can be built stronger and lighter than on any other model. With the weight between two wheels there is less vibration than when it is over either one of them, as in passing over an obstruction the weight is lifted only half the distance in the former case that it is in the latter.1/n
(DIR) Post #AtPUm9kWYLR9DnCe2K by morgan@sfba.social
2025-04-24T05:44:14Z
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Then, by the use of some alloy of greater tensile strength, weight for weight, than steel, and by filling the tires and the tubes in the framing with hydrogen instead of air, the weight of a road machine will be reduced to ten pounds or less, while racing machines will not weigh half that much. The machine will also be made so that it can be folded up and carried about or stowed away in some corner. By improvements in the construction of the bearings of moving parts friction will be almost wholly eliminated, and the method of applying power will be so perfected that there will be absolutely no such thing as lost power.2/n
(DIR) Post #AtPUmAn2gT2sRtOAbI by morgan@sfba.social
2025-04-24T05:45:37Z
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The roads will be prepared especially for bicycles, the grades being very light, and, in fact, only sufficient to provide proper drainage. The surface will be hard and smooth, the outer edge of all curves being raised as on a race track. The roads will be kept clean, as by that time the horse will be found only in zoological gardens. The improvement in the rider will be equally marked. From the continued and increasing use of the wheel a race of people will be evolved that will take to cycling as readily as a foreign immigrant does to politics. 3/n
(DIR) Post #AtPUmFVV96z94wDjSC by morgan@sfba.social
2025-04-24T05:46:52Z
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Taking all these things into consideration, we may expect an average speed of thirty miles an hour on the road and sixty miles an hour on the track. The use of the machine will be universal. Children will be taught to ride as they are now taught to walk. The suburbs of our great cities will extend from sixty to 100 miles in every direction. All patents will have expired, and such large quantities of bicycles will be manufactured that the cost will be nominal and within the reach of all. There will be no more crowded tenement-houses. The artisan, who will work only four hours a day, will live with his family in a cozy little home in the suburbs, where he can see the sunshine and breathe the fresh air. The uses of the wheel will have so improved the stamina and physique of the race that the only causes of death will be old age and accidents. Railroads will be used for the transportation of freight only. Every individual will own a bicycle. 4/n
(DIR) Post #AtPUmKbMCldksXzym8 by morgan@sfba.social
2025-04-24T05:47:59Z
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Those intended for long-distance travel will be run by small but powerful storage batteries, which may be charged at automatic electric stations by connecting the battery to a dynamo and dropping a coin of small value in a slot. With machines of this character it will be possible to attain a speed of 150 miles an hour, and to overcome the wind pressure they will be fitted with wedge-shaped wind shields made of some tough yet transparent substance. The bicycle will not be used in war for the simple reason that as dyspepsia will be unknown everybody will feel so well and be so good humored and disinclined to quarrel that there will be no one to go to war.THE BICYCLE OF THE FUTURE.The Norcatur RegisterNorcatur, KansasFri, Sep 29, 1893Page 4https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-norcatur-register-the-bicycle-of-the/91806461/5/5