Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . Elland Spring Frame Safety. the rear wheel, low down, where it is very bottoms of the front straight forks come behindthe pilot wheel axle, and are connected therewith bya hinged link, between which and a short arm abovethere is a coil spring, which receives the weight, andgives with any shock to the front wheel. Concussionsto the rear wheel are absorbed by the top spring. A pattern of the Excelsior is fitted with a spring forkto the front wheel. An anti-vibration steering socket AN
Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . Elland Spring Frame Safety. the rear wheel, low down, where it is very bottoms of the front straight forks come behindthe pilot wheel axle, and are connected therewith bya hinged link, between which and a short arm abovethere is a coil spring, which receives the weight, andgives with any shock to the front wheel. Concussionsto the rear wheel are absorbed by the top spring. A pattern of the Excelsior is fitted with a spring forkto the front wheel. An anti-vibration steering socket ANTI-VIBRATION DEVICES, 211 is put to the head, for the front forks; and the brakeacts on the rear wheel, but is applied in the ordinaryway, the chief communicating joint being a bell crankon the forward end of the backbone, or rather back-. Excelsior Spring Fork Safety. bones; it is very powerful. The stays from bracketto rear forks are very strong, and there are lighterstays from latter to the top of the curved seat pillar,and from the former to the head, The anti-vibration spring used in the FreemanSafety is the same as that used in the Humber andRaleigh machines, and is illustrated on the last named. Harringtons vibration check consists of a singlecoil of stout spring wire, one end being attached to thefork, and the other to the extremity of a short leverwhich is attached to the wheel pin. The whole weightis thus supported upon the spring, which gives toevery obstacle it meets with. 212 WHEELS AND WHEELING. The Horse]ey Safety, No. i, has a front spring forkarrangement. The fork foot, instead of running
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