Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . the main axle, at its junction with a tubular tail* orsupport, which falls away rearward, and ends in asmall roller, serving to support the rider should helose his balance backward. A machine which in outline of frame somewhatresembled the Kangaroo type, but which had a leveraction very similar to that of the Facile, while it hada distinctive feature of its own in the shape of its driv-ing gear, was the Racoon. Its driving wheel wassmall, but was geared up. 172 WHEELS AND WHEELING. The Racoon dri
Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . the main axle, at its junction with a tubular tail* orsupport, which falls away rearward, and ends in asmall roller, serving to support the rider should helose his balance backward. A machine which in outline of frame somewhatresembled the Kangaroo type, but which had a leveraction very similar to that of the Facile, while it hada distinctive feature of its own in the shape of its driv-ing gear, was the Racoon. Its driving wheel wassmall, but was geared up. 172 WHEELS AND WHEELING. The Racoon driving gear is a combination of thelever and gear wheel movements. To the fork end,just above the bearings, a metal arm is attached, thiscurving slightly upward and ending in a bearing for alarge gear wheel which gears with a second and smallertoothed wheel upon the axle of the driving lower part of the afore-mentioned arm runs for-ward, taking much the same shape as the fore portionsof the elongated Facile forks. At the extremity ofthis is a bearing forming the fulcrum for a lever, at. Spiral Safety. the rear end of which the foot is placed upon a pedalin the usual manner, while the forward end is con-nected to the larger gear wheel before mentioned bymeans of a connecting rod attached, like the pistonrod of an engine, to the side of the wheel. The actionof this gear is, by means of the lever and intermediaterod, to draw the larger wheel round. This gearwheelcommunicates its motion to the smaller wheel, andthrough this to the driving wheel, and thus propels themachine at a higher rate of speed than the movementof the foot. As the lever action is very similar to that PECULIAR CYCLES. 173 of the Facile, the combination, generally speaking,might be termed a geared-up Facile. A simple and strong frame of unusual lines is thatof the Spiral Safety. The frame consists entirely ofa single tube bent into two complete circles to carrythe seat pillar, rear wheel, and crank bracke
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