. Northward-ho! Covering Maine's inland resorts, Moosehead Lake, the Rangeleys, Belgrade lakes and Poland Spring. obuy an imported machine to getanything worthy of the name ofmotorcycle. Europe up to a veryfew years ago was at least fiveyears in advance of the Americanproduct. Now we export to Eu-rope. ^1 The leading domestic man-ufacturers, and there were onlya few at that, still made a little,light, short, wheel-based thing witha two and three-quarter horse-power motor and as little else asthey could supply and make it runat all. It had bicycle tires andhence sufiered from chronic punc-tures
. Northward-ho! Covering Maine's inland resorts, Moosehead Lake, the Rangeleys, Belgrade lakes and Poland Spring. obuy an imported machine to getanything worthy of the name ofmotorcycle. Europe up to a veryfew years ago was at least fiveyears in advance of the Americanproduct. Now we export to Eu-rope. ^1 The leading domestic man-ufacturers, and there were onlya few at that, still made a little,light, short, wheel-based thing witha two and three-quarter horse-power motor and as little else asthey could supply and make it runat all. It had bicycle tires andhence sufiered from chronic punc-tures. Every fifteen miles the riderwas required to turn a cock bywhich a cup was filled with oilfrom the tank. When this wasfull there was another cock to turnto let it run into his makers of the two-wheeledmounts had thoughtfully placed theoil-cup and the cocks where therider could not get at them noreven see nor touch without stand-ing almost on his head. Therewere riders who were able to per-form this feat without dismountingbut nine riders out of ten got ofl:every fifteen miles to oil up. What. with punctures and oiling, the gen-eral public got the imi)ression thatniotorcycle riders s[)cnt most oftheir time puttering with themachine to make it go. ^j The oil-ing system like all else on them wasbeautifully simply. the splashsystem the oil in the crank-casewas con\eyed to the smgle cylinderwhere half of it went out of theexhaust, in the form of smoke andthe other half through the bush-ings onto the riders riders who had no cyclome-ter judged when it was time to oilup by the oil on their leggins.]\ Mufflers there were, but so hea\yand l)adly designed that the hrstuse the rider made of his monkey-wrench was to remo\e the noisy reputation of thesmall mount. There is no excusefor making a racket on a modernmachine. They are all suppliedwith well designed and efhcientmufflers. When you hear that irri-tating pop-pon-pop—the cause isthe same
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