Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . Dual Tricycle, other to the greater bulk of the cycle riding com-munity. The Dual tricycle possesses a peculiar double gear,one wheel driving for power and the other two forspeed. In this driving gear intermediate wheels areused. These are affixed at the ends of levers placedon each side and connected by a swiveling lever has a catch which holds it in the positionrequired, and by pulling this up with the finger, andmoving the lever backward or forward, as the case may i56 WHEELS AND WHE
Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . Dual Tricycle, other to the greater bulk of the cycle riding com-munity. The Dual tricycle possesses a peculiar double gear,one wheel driving for power and the other two forspeed. In this driving gear intermediate wheels areused. These are affixed at the ends of levers placedon each side and connected by a swiveling lever has a catch which holds it in the positionrequired, and by pulling this up with the finger, andmoving the lever backward or forward, as the case may i56 WHEELS AND WHEELING. be, either wheel is put into gear, the other being atthe same time thrown out of gear. A machine somewhat of the ordinary type, but fittedwith a peculiar driving gear, was the Button. It pos-sessed the advantage of machines similarly driven thatcoasting could be enjoyed with the feet on the pedal,but its gear was of a complicated order. The peculiarity of the machine consists of Dut-tons patent driving gear, which may be described as. Dutton Bicycle. follows: A stay rod runs from each fork head to apoint some 6 inches or 8 inches in front of the axle,where it unites with the end of a second shorter andstouter rod, which curves out from a few inches abovethe bearings. At the junction of these two rods awheel, some 6 inches in diameter, is fitted, the circum-ference of which is cut into teeth, which gear intosimilar ones on a 2^--inch (or thereabouts) wheel affixedto the axle of the machine. On the outer side of the PECULIAR CYCLES. IS7 first wheel a smaller one, some 2 inches to 3 inches in-diameter, is affixed by means of screws, which saidwheel is fitted with a set of ratchet teeth on its circum-ference. Outside this again, and on the same bear-ing, is pivoted one end of a 12-inch crank, or ratherlever, having a pedal at its other end, and a pawl nearthe fulcrum so arranged as to engage the teeth on theratchet wheel on a downward stroke. A small pulleyis fixed at the to
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