WATEE BICYCLES.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4427, 13 March 1883, Page 3

WATEE BICYCLES.

Two styles of water bicycles, the Girard and the Standard marine bicycle, have been exhibited (a London paper states) at an American fair, by the Portsmouth Marine Bicycle Company. They are novel in appearance, and are evidently serviceable, comfortable, and easily managed. The Standard is a combination of a catamaran boat, bicycle, sailboat, and marine propeller. The boat part of it, made of white pine, consists of two, floats, as they arj termed, each 20 feet in length,' 7 in. wide, and 3 ft. apart, connected by four.crossbars of oak fastened to the floats by lag screws. The craft contains steering-bar, rudder, propellery at)d paddles, the latter articles being used in going to or from shore, or wherever the water is too shallow for working the pro^ peller. The seat, handles, and paddles are so adjustable that the machine can be ran by a 12-year-old boy; ladies easily work them. An awning is carried which can be, easily changed into a sail, and as quickly re-adjusted into an awning. The backbone supporting the awninpcan also be quickly removed and replaced by a lady's tricycle seat. The operation of the marine bicycle is identical with that of the road article, is strong, durable, propelled - with great rapidity, and altogether constitutes a. desirable pleasure and touring boat.