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 | | Moreover, the straight fork disappeared from bicycle design in 1884 with the invention of the modern "safety bicycle" (see Illustration 6, 7, 8). |
 | | The straight fork bicycle might have looked fine, but the irregular twists, turns, throws and pitches of a Bicycle Wheel, when attached to a straight fork, were dangerous and unstable -- hence, the name given to the bicycle with a straight fork design: the "Bone Shaker." |
 | | The broken rungs and irregular leg positions of the stools (see Illustration 1-5 and 10A and B) The tilt of the wheel and fork (see Illustrations 1 and 4), one could argue, after examining Duchamp's 5 Bicycle Wheels and Stools, that none were ever in an equilibrium. |
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