The Wheel and cycling trade review . -ates equally when the foot is descending. If, how, we imagine the cyclist to departfrom the above supposed condition, in the di-rection of doing work, it makes no theoreticaldifference whether we suppose him to use hismuscles (a) to partly lift the weight of hislegs on the upstroke, (b) to press down on thedown stroke, (c) to push forward at the topcentre, or (d) to pull back at the bottomcentre, or any combination of these. In no case will there be any waste of me-chanical power applied; but the further ques-tion as to what precise combination of theseact
The Wheel and cycling trade review . -ates equally when the foot is descending. If, how, we imagine the cyclist to departfrom the above supposed condition, in the di-rection of doing work, it makes no theoreticaldifference whether we suppose him to use hismuscles (a) to partly lift the weight of hislegs on the upstroke, (b) to press down on thedown stroke, (c) to push forward at the topcentre, or (d) to pull back at the bottomcentre, or any combination of these. In no case will there be any waste of me-chanical power applied; but the further ques-tion as to what precise combination of theseactions will enable the rider to develop givenmechanical power, for given time, with mini-mum fatigue and exhaustion in wind andpulse, depends on a number of physiologicaland individual considerations of which theorycan take but very imperfect account. JABEZ BEESWINGER. The witty French wheelman refers to hisrival, the locomotive, as the big brotherwho smokes. >&97- 67 96X PURE FINE PARA RUBBER . .IS USED IN OF. SAMSON SINGLE-TUBE TIRES. No other tire in the world contains such percentageof pure fine Para rubber as the Samson Tire, and as aconsequence are soft, flexible, and resilient; they are The Highest Grade Tire ever made NEW YORK TIRE CO. MAIN OFFICE: 59 & 61 Reade Street, N. Y. BRANCH HOUSES : Boston, No. 63 Franklin Street. Chicago, No. 345 Dearborn , No. 415 Mooney Block. Louisville, No. 422 W. Main Street. Denver, No. 1715Champa Street. Toronto, No. 50 Wellington Street, W. PHILADELPHIA. CLEVELAND. Kindly mention The Wheel
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