Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . White Flyer Safety Bicycle. izing the force to be exercised necessary to drive themachine. The Zimer Power Safety is an ordinary Safety, fittedwith a device to enable the rider to utilize his arms aswell as his legs when he finds it desirable. The prin-ciple of the device, as a means of using ones armpower, in addition to or instead of ones leg force, iscertainly better than any other manumotive machineon the market. The swinging handle bar is mountedon neat ball bearings, the clutch is in a gear
Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . White Flyer Safety Bicycle. izing the force to be exercised necessary to drive themachine. The Zimer Power Safety is an ordinary Safety, fittedwith a device to enable the rider to utilize his arms aswell as his legs when he finds it desirable. The prin-ciple of the device, as a means of using ones armpower, in addition to or instead of ones leg force, iscertainly better than any other manumotive machineon the market. The swinging handle bar is mountedon neat ball bearings, the clutch is in a gear box, and PECULIAR CYCLES. iSi pulled at by a chain on teeth, and in the case of thetricycle the handle bar can be worked continuously ona crank between the bearings for the feet cranks. Inthe other form the power is applied intermittently onthe up stroke only. The practical use of the gearmust not be lost sight of, and it certainly enables any-one to get the full extent of his power out of himself. Zimer Power Safety. into the propulsion of his machine. The man is thesole source of the energy; in the ordinary machine hislegs are the only outlet for his powers; in this his armsmay be brought into play (or work) as well. It addsnothing to a mans power, but considerably increaseshis means of using the power that is in him. Thedevice is a machine, not an engine. ANTI-VIBRATION DEVICES. I^HE establishment in popular favor of the rear-driving chain Safety tended to revolutionizecycling in more than one way. Not only did the lowwheel completely usurp the places previously occupiedby other types, but it threw cycling open to bothsexes and all classes; widened indefinitely its possibil-ities; and likewise ushered in a host of questions, con-cerning the new condition of affairs, that could besolved only by time, experience, and experiment. The use of the Safety soon showed that considerablevibration was present in riding, even though at first ithad been claimed that vibration would be b
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