Outing . vior underall sorts of conditions. In the firstplace, I found no difference in the drivingand steering, and in the second placethe absence of vibration was setts, cobble stones and such likeroughnesses in the road surface wereabsolutely not felt at all, and the onlyoccasions on which any vibration what-ever was apparent were on encounteringpatches of road of a hilly or wavy nature,when the movement was felt, althoughbut to a very slight degree made the running delightfully easyand the machine seemed to slip alongwithout any trouble at all, the automatic
Outing . vior underall sorts of conditions. In the firstplace, I found no difference in the drivingand steering, and in the second placethe absence of vibration was setts, cobble stones and such likeroughnesses in the road surface wereabsolutely not felt at all, and the onlyoccasions on which any vibration what-ever was apparent were on encounteringpatches of road of a hilly or wavy nature,when the movement was felt, althoughbut to a very slight degree made the running delightfully easyand the machine seemed to slip alongwithout any trouble at all, the automaticsmoothing of the road before it, as itwere, making it on the average road al-most as good as riding on the path. Down hill the effect of this was mostmarked, and the machine slid away rap-idly, almost running away with me infact, the usual checks made to progressby the roughness of the road not beingfelt at all. So far so good, and my opin-ion of the tire was that it was simply per- THE NEW YORK MEET. 381. BEFORE THE CAMERA. fection. During the course of the ride, so into the thick of the mud I dashed, however, I thought I would try how it The particular spot at which I made my behaved in mud. Indeed, in one or two experiment had a thick and somewhat cases where the mud was all across the glutinous covering of mud from side to road I had to, whether I wished it, side. The machine went through it, or 382 OUTING FOR FEBRUARY. rather, I should say, over it, ahuost with-out my feeling it, and the expected didnot happen, /. e., the gathering up andthrowing of the mud by the large tire,but I had not traveled ten yards beforethe machine made tracks for one side ofthe road ; the next instant it was track-ing just as hardly for the other side, andafter another track or two I came to theground. The reason for this is plainenough. The weight of the rider andmachine being spread over so large asurface the tire did not sink through themud and reach the bottom below, as withan ordinary thin
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