The "Inventions" section of the December 27th, 1919, issue of Scientific American featured a new model of the bicycle invented by Mr. C. H. Clark that seemed rather strange to those who saw it debut at the six-day bicycle race in New York City. Onlookers "were astonished one day at the appearance on the track of a rider, peddling away on a machine whose wheels had apparently shrunk to the size of a small dinner plate [ sic ]."