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Taranaki Daily News, 19 April 1918, Page 5

Occasionally one sees in the new papers, tinder tlie heading "Patents"'( announcement to the effect that ii Blank or Mr. Dash lias been grant! provisional protection for some devil in connection with what is general called the "improvement" of bioyol* or of some specified part thereol-7-air frequently enough, that annouuoeme is. the beginning and the end oi the i venter's creation from the public poi of view. It really looka as though. 3 have reached something like finality icycle construction, except aa Jjjgat details. We have been offered tocM handle-bars, lever chains, "crank cranks, unpuncturable tyres, swingi saddles, and soarings here, tfiere a everywhere, hut the public has not iris to the bait, and the bicycle remains V< much what it was a decade ago. J<M possible, of course, that one of tl» days a n inventor will jrive us sometibi which really is a great improveme and which really is practicable, and th it may be, cycling will bo revorotkmis and will enter upon a new era of Mat malting- Meanwhile we have lrfcfla complain about, littlo canße for diss faction, in the bicycle of to-day, > manly speaking, it is very near to fection, and wc are well content the modern mount. If finality has tually been reached, we shall not - plain of the sterility of fto TOI