Outing . bottom below, as withan ordinary thin tire it would have done,but spread out fiat, and the mud, hav-ing sufficient consistency,formed a slide over whichthe wheel slipped. I was somewhat care-ful after this to keepthe machine perfectlystraight, and not to de-viate at all sharply whentraveling through themud. Still I was nearlydown several times,and whenever there was sufficient consistency in the mud Ifound the utmost difficulty in keeping themachine upright from this cause. Myopinion of it therefore is that on greasyroads the tire, so far as safeties are con-cerned, is a failure, from
Outing . bottom below, as withan ordinary thin tire it would have done,but spread out fiat, and the mud, hav-ing sufficient consistency,formed a slide over whichthe wheel slipped. I was somewhat care-ful after this to keepthe machine perfectlystraight, and not to de-viate at all sharply whentraveling through themud. Still I was nearlydown several times,and whenever there was sufficient consistency in the mud Ifound the utmost difficulty in keeping themachine upright from this cause. Myopinion of it therefore is that on greasyroads the tire, so far as safeties are con-cerned, is a failure, from the accentua-tion of the side-slipping fall peculiar tothat type of machine. On roads, how-ever, of a sandy nature, such as those inthe South of England, this drawbackwould not be felt, and with this one ex-ception the pneumatic tire affords thefinest riding I could possibly have im-agined. For the tricycle 1 am inclined tothink there will be a big future, for thereason that not only this side slipping m. we were there. IHE NFAV YORK MEET. 383
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