Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — THE LATEST IN BICYCLES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE LATEST IN BICYCLES.

Bjr an Ingenious Arrangement They Can Be Folded. A folding bicycle Is the newest novelty in the steel line. By a simple and Ingenious arrangement the connecting rods of the frame may be folded until the machine Is reduced to the size of one wheel, as shown In the Illustration. The inventor claims for the folding

bicycle the possibility of storing it in one’s room, the ease with which It may be carried up or down stairs or hoisted in dumb-waiters or elevators. It can be readily doubled up for carrying on the shoulder up and down bad roads. Such a bicycle can be readily placed in a carriage or other vehicle for transportation. The Inventor claims further that in its folded shape the bicycle may be securely locked, but seems to forget that in Its portable shape it presents an extraordinary inducement to the intending thief. The folding bicycle Is one of the things that, now that it has been invented, will cause people to wonder why it had not been thought of before. Dwellers In flats, however, where there are tenants given to storing their wheels in the lower hallway, will be Inclined to send their personal thanks to the genius who has shown how the most unwieldy tiling ever invented—that is, while in a state of repose—may be made less obtrusive and less dangerous. There is no reason why it shouldn’t be hung up on a peg out of everybody’s reach.

THE BICYCLE THAT FOLDS UP.