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The Marines carried the M-1910 haversack and the somewhat-improved M-1928 haversack in both world wars, but they also developed their own exclusive pack system in 1941. The M-1910 haversack was considered too overweight and cumbersome for jungle fighting in the tropics of Central America during the years of the Banana Wars .
10-speed bicycle cassette. On a bicycle, the cassette or cluster [1] is the set of multiple sprockets that attaches to the hub on the rear wheel. A cogset works with a rear derailleur to provide multiple gear ratios to the rider. Cassettes come in two varieties, freewheels or cassettes, of which cassettes are a newer development. Although ...
[4] [5] Sinyard started importing Italian bike components which were difficult to find in the United States, [3] but the company began to produce its own bike parts by 1976, starting with the Specialized Touring Tire. [5] [6] In 1981, the company introduced its first two bikes: the Sequoia, a sport-touring design, and the Allez, a road bike. [7]
From 1989 through 2001, Derby International marketed bikes in the United States under the Nishiki as well as Univega, Haro, and Raleigh brand names. Some of the all terrain bikes and mountain bike models were designed in partnership with famed mountain bike designer and Mountain Bike Hall of Fame member R. Cunningham and have his name on the frames.
In 1939, Murray introduced its Pacemaker Series Mercury bicycle at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Styled by the industrial artist and designer, Viktor Schreckengost , the streamlined machine, with an elaborate diecast metal headpiece, was finished in black, chrome, and polished aluminum, the deluxe version of the Mercury Pacemaker line.
Two Pope employees, Henry Souther and Harold Hayden Eames, collaborated on a new process for producing bicycle tubing. Souther had been experimenting with stress tolerances of different metals, and concluded that steel with five-percent nickel alloy would be ideal for bicycle tubing. At the time, this metal was only available in sheet form.
Soldiers of the Leicestershire Regiment in France in 1915, in Full Marching Order. The ammunition pouches can be clearly seen. During the Second Boer War of 1899–1902, the standard British Army set of personal equipment, comprising a belt, haversack and ammunition pouches, was the leather Slade–Wallace equipment, which had been introduced in 1888.
The first Merlin frame was a mountain bike frame custom-built for the defending National Mountain Bike Champion Joe Murray. [2] In the following year, the company began a strong relationship with frame designer Tom Kellogg, who helped them produce the world's first 3-2.5 titanium alloy road bicycle frame. [ 2 ]