Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . Cheylesmore Tricycle. the steepest decline. The steering is improved rackand pinion, while patent adjustable ball bearings arefitted to all wheels. The frame of the Cheylesmore hasbeen altered and the backbone lengthened and tubingused. The forks are bent more inward, the crankshaft bearings being fitted to the bottom of the forksand rendered self-adjustable. This end is obtained bymeans of allowing the neck of the chain wheels to pro-trude up the forks, and these are held in place by a TRICYCLES
Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . Cheylesmore Tricycle. the steepest decline. The steering is improved rackand pinion, while patent adjustable ball bearings arefitted to all wheels. The frame of the Cheylesmore hasbeen altered and the backbone lengthened and tubingused. The forks are bent more inward, the crankshaft bearings being fitted to the bottom of the forksand rendered self-adjustable. This end is obtained bymeans of allowing the neck of the chain wheels to pro-trude up the forks, and these are held in place by a TRICYCLES. 107 screw, thus making the action more vertical; adjusta-ble handles, and a patent sliding saddle are supplied, sothat a rider, while traveling, can shift his position,forward when going up hill, and backward when de-scending—this latter helping to keep the steeringwheel steady, in fact, making it almost as safe as afront steerer. The front steering tricycle of what was sometimescalled the bath chair pattern soon became a popu-lar style, the name being given to the class of machine. Loop-frame Tricycle. whose general outline resembles that of a bath chair,two equal-sized wheels running one on each side ofthe rider, with a steering handle, exactly similar tothat of an invalids bath chair, actuating the smallguiding wheel in front. Several variations of this styleof machine were introduced with indifferent success,notably the Centaur, Premier, and Coventry Express,but the machine which made the first sensation in thisdirection was the Salvo, invented by Starley Brothers,of St. Johns Works, Coventry. Originally it was io8 WHEELS AND WHEELING. introduced under the title of The Salvo Quadricycle,it having in fact four wheels; but it was essentially atricycle, the fourth wheel being carried clear of theground, and only serving as a preventive of the ridertipping over backward; literally, therefore, quadri-
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