Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . Cripper Type Tandem. were based was improved. Those which were ineffect an elongated Cripper tricycle were among thebest. The Humber pattern tricycle also lends itself veryreadily to the tandem form, as the additional tubing,chain, pedals, and saddle can be readily arranged forin front of the axle. In fact, as a tandem the machineruns much more steadily and pleasantly than as asingle. It is the most easily propelled of tandems,and has a very delightful bowling motion closely akinto that of the or
Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . Cripper Type Tandem. were based was improved. Those which were ineffect an elongated Cripper tricycle were among thebest. The Humber pattern tricycle also lends itself veryreadily to the tandem form, as the additional tubing,chain, pedals, and saddle can be readily arranged forin front of the axle. In fact, as a tandem the machineruns much more steadily and pleasantly than as asingle. It is the most easily propelled of tandems,and has a very delightful bowling motion closely akinto that of the ordinary bicycle. Its only drawback is 128 WHEELS AND WHEELING. that there is required a great deal of practice and ex-perience with it in order to master it, and that it is sodelicately balanced on the axle that the brake cannotbe applied suddenly, and great care has to be exer-cised in descending steep hills. About the last type of tandem tricycle was one builton lines somewhat resembling those of the Surprise. Humber Tandem. single tricycle. It had a single driving wheel in therear; two smaller front steering wheels, controlled bythe rear rider, and the weight of the riders was carriedfar enough back to make it a steadier and safer ma-chine than the Humber type. It proved itself easyrunning, and very fast. But the final invention in tandems having more thantwo wheels was the Triplet Quadricycle, which, as its TRICYCLES. 129 name indicates, was a four-wheeled machine to carrythree riders. This machine, said H. H. Griffin in1889, is, without doubt, the fastest and safest tandemever built, and in the latter part of 1888 several sensa-tionally fast performances were accomplished on theroad on it. In the standard the wheels are 30-inchrear and 28-inch front, the distance between the wheeltracks being 31^ inches; total width, 37J inches; be-
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