Assertion: bicycle's gear ratio | /r/CapableOf | allow smaller wheels
Facets:
value: without a concurrent loss of speed
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The 1890s saw one of the biggest bicycle crazes of all, driven by several significant developments in bicycles: the invention of the "safety bicycle" with its chain-drive transmission, whose gear ratios allowed smaller wheels without a concurrent loss of speed, and the subsequent invention of the pneumatic (inflatable air-filled) bicycle tire.