Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . t running to the front on theright. The small steering wheels were connected, sothat the front rider controlled the steering. One chainconnected the two-crank shaft and axle; the secondseat arm and resting handles projected from the was two-track in both double as well as single another four-wheeled tandem was an earlypattern of the Quadrant. The later Quadrant tandemtricycle was a front steerer, built on the lines of their 126 WHEELS AND WHEELING. single tricycle, already illu
Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . t running to the front on theright. The small steering wheels were connected, sothat the front rider controlled the steering. One chainconnected the two-crank shaft and axle; the secondseat arm and resting handles projected from the was two-track in both double as well as single another four-wheeled tandem was an earlypattern of the Quadrant. The later Quadrant tandemtricycle was a front steerer, built on the lines of their 126 WHEELS AND WHEELING. single tricycle, already illustrated; but the No. 9 wassomething of quite a different sort; having a uniquecombination of lever and rotary action. It was afront steerer provided with two lugs on the seat rail,and to these lugs is attached by knuckle-joints (hingedhorizontally) a small cross bar, having in its center along curved tube, to which a trailing wheel is attached;bicycle handle bar for rear rider, and the rear pedalsare connected by long levers to the front pedals,attaching themselves by a small knuckle-joint and. Quadrant No. 9 Tandem. thumbscrew to a roller bearing on pedal pins—thusno second chains are required. These four-wheeled tandems differed from one an-other about as much as they did from their three-wheeled relatives; but they constituted, to some ex-tent, a class of their own, but one which never wasremarkable for its success or popularity. As the Coventry Rotary has been shown twicealready (in its single and four-in-hand patterns) it isnot necessary to illustrate it as a tandem. In thisform there is, in fact, less change of appearance thantakes place in any other machine when a tandem ismade of it, for its frame lends itself easily to the TRICYCLES. 127 doubling process. Two short tubes, running to therear, carry the second saddle post and chain, and addlittle to the weight, while they also detract little fromthe appearance. Among the first tandem tricycles a number had ap-peared bu
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