The Wheel and cycling trade review . experience and disagreeable sen-sations when the chain rides the sprocket,as it is commonly termed, have often rackedtheir brains with the problem of easy and ef-fective transmission of power in a bicycle andhave tried to find a suitable solution whichwould bring both fortune and fame to its au-thor. As a result of this race in the inventive fieldmany patents have been applied for and ob-tained, experiments of all sorts have beenmade, some of them very funny and imprac- ticable, but showing a good deal of thought onthe part of the inventors. Of all the diff
The Wheel and cycling trade review . experience and disagreeable sen-sations when the chain rides the sprocket,as it is commonly termed, have often rackedtheir brains with the problem of easy and ef-fective transmission of power in a bicycle andhave tried to find a suitable solution whichwould bring both fortune and fame to its au-thor. As a result of this race in the inventive fieldmany patents have been applied for and ob-tained, experiments of all sorts have beenmade, some of them very funny and imprac- ticable, but showing a good deal of thought onthe part of the inventors. Of all the differentdevices tried to attain the desired result, onlytwo have given comparative satisfaction andpromise of a satisfactory solution of theproblem. These are the lever-and-clutch de-vice and the bevel-gear system. Of the first device we have but little to say,as different applications, such as the old Starordinary was equipped with, are well knownto our readers, who will remember the hill-climbing matches, in which this system showed. Fig. 1. its superiority. No progress seems to havebeen made in that direction, and if the leverpower is to supplant all others some day, itsmode of application will have to be greatlyimproved. In our opinion, the most promising devicedeveloped up to the present time is the bevelgear, and, while the same may be comparative-ly unknown yet to most riders, those who pur-chased chainless mounts from the LeagueCycle Company, of Hartford, when the wheelwas first introduced in this country in 1894,can testify to its great advantage over the
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