Database of Adjustable Handlebars

[Miq]

Another pic of a Kelly and Lyndhurst from The Modern Bicycle and It's Accessories 1898.

 

[Barnegatbicycles]

Kelly bars

Sanger bars

Ridgeway bars

 

[mike cates]

The catalog image shows the handle bars being able to be rotated to different positions but I wanted to further add my experience from once owning a LYNDHURST RACER.
What is not shown or generally known is that the handle bars, being fixed via movable clasps on each side of the forks, could also slide further downwards than the image shows to the cross piece at the bottom of the steering head so the handle bars where they went over the tire could be adjusted to just miss the top of the front tire. You slid the handle bars and clasps up or down to where you wanted them and tightened a bolt on each clasp and the height and rotational position was achieved to the rider's liking.

The design of the front fork being one structural piece going up and over the steering head tube made it very stiff and not wanting to twist under racing conditions. Also having the handle bars fixed lower further eliminated the twist of the forks. Surely more rigid than the common stem mounting of handle bars.
With the clasps in this fully dropped position, and with the dropped bars that were on my old bike, the handle grips were about at the front hub axle center line height and this is as lowest as I'd ever seen on a TOC racer. Maye the BUCK TRACK RACER bicycle was a close competitor in as low as you could go with bars.
I'm sure the hunched over rider had his adam's apple dangerously close to where the portion of the front fork arched over the top of the steering head tube.
That LYNDHURST RACER frame was amazingly thin walled and super light. Not to mention it was originally nickle plated.
I also liked how LYNDHURST dropped the crank axle center line height lower than the wheel axle center line heights to lower the center of gravity. GREAT ENGINEERING!!!

Mike Cates, CA.

 

[cr250mark]

Halladay Adjustable Bars.
Reference 1901 Chicago Mead Goods and Sundries Catalog

 

[chitown]

A couple to add to the photo database of bad ass kids with adjustable bars:

 

[cr250mark]

A couple to add to the photo database of bad ass kids with adjustable bars:

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Killer pictures Joe any provenance!
Looks like a good ole south side alley.

 

[Barnegatbicycles]

1895 Dayton ( The Davis Sewing Machine Co)