Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — An Aluminum Bicycle. [ARTICLE]

An Aluminum Bicycle.

Brooklyn Eagle. In a window on Fulton street there is hung; up for the inspection of passersby a bicycle. It is suspended from a set of scales and the indicator registers the weight of the wheel 13J pounds. This is by far the lightest bicycle which has been put oh the market, and it marks another step in the evolution of the old velocipede toward the perfect .bicycle. It is made of aluminium, the metal which has so lately become quite general in its use. The cost of the wheel is considerably more than that of the steel ones now in use, but after the novelty has worn off the price . will probably be reduced to that of the high grade wheels of today.