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Schwinn advertisement from 1946. A cruiser bicycle, also known as a beach cruiser or (formerly) motobike, is a bicycle that usually combines balloon tires, an upright seating posture, a single-speed drivetrain, and straightforward steel construction with expressive styling. Cruisers are popular among casual bicyclists and vacationers because ...
Susanne Altenburger. Philip C. Bolger (December 3, 1927 – May 24, 2009) was a prolific American boat designer, who was born and lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He began work full-time as a draftsman for boat designers Lindsay Lord and then John Hacker in the early 1950s. The Gloucester Light Dory, one of Bolger's better-known designs.
Conventional metallic bicycle wheels have 24, 28, 32 or 36 spokes. Wheels on tandems and BMX often have 40 or 48 spokes to support additional stresses and weight. Lowrider bicycles may have as many as 144 spokes per wheel. [20] [21] [22] Wheels with fewer spokes have an aerodynamic advantage, as the drag is reduced. The reduced number of spokes ...
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A tubed, clincher tire showing the inner tube protruding between the tire and the rim. Tubular tire rolled from rim to show glue between them. Clincher cross section schematic with 1: rim, 2: rim strip, 3: rim braking surface, 4: bead core, 5: inner tube, 6: casing, 7: tread. The first bicycle "tires" were iron bands on the wooden wheels of ...
Coordinates: 53°24′28″N 2°09′26″W. The Stockport Sunday School is a Sunday school in Stockport, Cheshire, England. Founded in 1784, it had become the largest Sunday school in the world by 1859. [1] The original school was situated on London Square, Wellington Street, Stockport, behind the town hall. Before the days of universal ...
Enrollment. 694 (includes 46 PK students) (2017-18) [1] Student to teacher ratio. 8.7 [1] Website. www.wilmingtonfriends.org. Wilmington Friends School is a private Preschool - 12 school in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, United States, near Wilmington. [2] It is affiliated with the Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers.
Ernest Hemingway owned a 38-foot (12 m) fishing boat named Pilar.It was acquired in April 1934 from Wheeler Shipbuilding in Brooklyn, New York, for $7,495.[1] "Pilar" was a nickname for Hemingway's second wife, Pauline, and also the name of the woman leader of the partisan band in his 1940 novel The Spanish Civil War, For Whom the Bell Tolls.