Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . lsgeared to 64, with Broncho hubs; cranks 5 to 6 inchthrow; tangent spokes; f-inch solid tires; ball head;weldless, cold-drawn steel tubings, fitted throughout;cow-horn bars and spade handles. There are nochains, middle axles, ratchet wheels, chain guards,mud guards, guard-supporting rods or handle-barconnecting rods. Nickel everywhere except spokesand rims. The machine has been ridden up and down curb-stones and submitted to every practical test that couldbe suggested. Its appearance on the trac
Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations . lsgeared to 64, with Broncho hubs; cranks 5 to 6 inchthrow; tangent spokes; f-inch solid tires; ball head;weldless, cold-drawn steel tubings, fitted throughout;cow-horn bars and spade handles. There are nochains, middle axles, ratchet wheels, chain guards,mud guards, guard-supporting rods or handle-barconnecting rods. Nickel everywhere except spokesand rims. The machine has been ridden up and down curb-stones and submitted to every practical test that couldbe suggested. Its appearance on the track will be TRICYCLES. i37 made early next spring, and it is expected to prove asmuch faster than the chain tandem as the pneumatic isthan the solid tire. Several photographs have beentaken with Messrs, Muller sitting still on the machinewithout supports. Nearly all of the tricks that can beaccomplished on the ordinary are as easily done onthis, which is certainly a new departure in the tandemline. The development of the Rover type of Safety, how-ever, soon showed the manufacturer a way in which. Tandem Safety Bicycle. to design a tandem without departing materially fromthe usual Safety lines. This was done by simplylengthening the frame, so as to place both riders be-tween the wheels of the machine. The rear portion ofthe frame was usually braced by a cross tube, or madediamond shape, while the front part was generallyopen in the style of the drop frame Safety in order toadapt it to ladies use. These machines have had afair demand, being very easy running and fast. Adrawback to them has been that the steering generallyproved very tiresome, particularly where roads were *38 WHEELS AND WHEELING. not good; and two single Safeties seem generally to bepreferred to one tandem. The last, and perhaps the most striking productionin Safety tandems is the triplet safety—a machineclaimed to be faster than the triplet quadricycle of thesame house. On account of the length of the frame itis
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