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55 THUNDER PRESS www.thunderpress.net FOUR NEW V-TWIN SPECIFIC TRANS/GEAR OILS THREE NEW V-TWIN SPECIFIC ENGINE OILS MINERAL ENGINE OIL 10W-40, 20W-50, 25W-60 50WT, 60WT & 70WT SEMI-SYNTHETIC ENGINE OIL 20W-50 FULL SYNTHETIC ENGINE OIL 20W-50 TRANSMISSION TRANSMISSION & GEAR OIL 80W-90 HEAVY DUTY TRANSMISSION & GEAR OIL HD 85W-140 SPORTSTER GEAR GEAR & CHAINCASE OIL PRIMARY MINERAL PRIMARY SYNTHETIC PRIMARY V-TWIN SPECIFIC 5WT H-D TYPE E™ 10WT H-D TYPE B™ 20WT H-D TYPE H/D™ FORK OIL that the inventor, Edward Pennington, called a "motor cycle." The article was actually about the National Bicycle Exhibition in Madison Square Garden, New York City, and only one paragraph even mentioned a motor cycle, and that was for a two-wheel bicycle powered by a two-cylinder 2 hp naphtha engine with an electric spark ignition made by the Hitchcock Manufacturing Co. in Cortland, New York. Never mind that Pennington claims to have invented his motor cycle in 1890; the salient point is that it wasn't ready for exhibition until 1895, wasn't patented until 1896 (#574,262) and there is no record of any actually being sold. In 1896 gold was discovered in the Yukon, the fi rst modern Olympic Games held in Athens, chop suey invented, and the dial telephone patented. The fi rst magazine photo with a bare woman's breast appeared in National Geographic and radiation was fi rst used to treat breast cancer. The fi rst "horseless carriage" show took place in London, Henry Ford drove his Quadricycle on the streets of Detroit, and the fi rst auto accident in the U.S. took place when Henry Wells hits a bicyclist in New York City. Sylvester Roper had per- fected his latest steam-pow- ered machine, built around a Columbia safety bicycle, in 1896. Always ahead of his time, he brought it to the Charles River Race Track in June to demonstrate its use as a bicycle pacer. After three suc- cessful circuits of the course he brought it up to full speed for a fourth, but suffered a heart attack and died even before crashing. Except for a few aberrant oddities, his death ended experiments with steam-powered bicycles: the gasoline-fueled internal-com- bustion engine had arrived. To be continued… 4 George A. Long's steam- powered tricycle now resides in the Smithsonian Lucius Copeland posing with his 1884 steam- powered Star bicycle The Smithsonian owns the original, but replicas are featured in most transportation museums. Just for the record: this steam-powered velocipede has the fi rst twist-grip control.