Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . ry three or four riders. The loop framesociable here shown has 44-inch driving wheels and a22-inch steering wheel. The riders sat side by side;both pedaled, and the left-hand rider steered. Suchmachines were usually geared low, and weighed about150 pounds. It will be seen that this particular ma-chine has the unusual feature of two chains, by theuse of which two distinct gears could be used, a highone for level roads, and a lower one for hills—a great 120 WHEELS AND WHEELING. advantage on so heav
Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . ry three or four riders. The loop framesociable here shown has 44-inch driving wheels and a22-inch steering wheel. The riders sat side by side;both pedaled, and the left-hand rider steered. Suchmachines were usually geared low, and weighed about150 pounds. It will be seen that this particular ma-chine has the unusual feature of two chains, by theuse of which two distinct gears could be used, a highone for level roads, and a lower one for hills—a great 120 WHEELS AND WHEELING. advantage on so heavy a machine. The change ofgear was effected by working a small lever, acting inconnection with the box on the axle. This box is inthree parts. The two outer portions have each teethnotched internally, while the middle one is plain. Bymoving the small lever downward it forces a pawl intoaction, which catches the teeth on the disk nearest thedriving wheel, and then the machine is driving the fullheight of the driving wheel. By moving the leverupward, the same pawl operates on the toothed wheel. T-frame Sociable. nearest the rider, and the machine is then drivingequal to a 38-inch wheel. The lever can then bemoved to the center, which position leaves the pawlin the center of the middle portion of the box, so thatthe wheels run free, neither side driving, and the ped-als act as foot-rests. The whole arrangement is ex-tremely simple, and it is impossible for any of theparts to become disarranged. A central geared sociable with a T-shaped frame SOCIABLES AND TANDEMS. 121 was another principal type. It had 46-inch drivingwheels; a 22-inch steering wheel; a horizontal Tframe, and a central gear for each rider. This madea lighter, and a rather neater-looking machine thanthe loop-frame pattern. The Coventry Rotary, already shown in its singleform, also figures as a sociable, a four-in-hand, and atandem. As a sociable, the cross tube of the frameis merely doubled in length, so asto carr
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