Identifier: wheelswheelingin00port (find matches)
Title: Wheels and wheeling; an indispensable handbook for cyclists, with over two hundred illustrations
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Porter, Luther Henry
Subjects: Cycling Bicycles
Publisher: Boston, Wheelman Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ently rigid, and-.the small size of the steeringwheel prevented its getting a fair trial. We rode both this and Starleys original Roverat the time, and a member of our staff—Mr. Golder—used Lawsons machine a good deal for potteringabout upon, with the result that he became fairly aufait with it, and was able to manage it pretty well.In a conversation with Mr. Starley the question ofwheel principles was entered into, and upon our sug-gesting the alteration of the Rover to direct steering,he admitted he had not tried it, as he was under theimpression that the vertical fork was necessary tosecure proper steering. We referred to the Lawson HISTORY OF THE BICYCLE. 81 machine as a proof that with practice a slightly slop-ing fork could be manipulated successfully, and refer-ring him to Mr. Golder for a proof of its practicability.The result of that conversation was that Mr. Starleybuilt a machine as a trial, in which he substituted thesloping direct fork for the arm-and-link arrangement
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Original Rover Safety—1884. as hitherto adopted, retaining the large steering wheeland other structural features of the original Rover,and placed it at Mr. Golders disposal to see if hecould ride it. For the first few days it took him allhis time to keep upright upon it, but its intricaciesbeing once mastered the capabilities of the new ma-chine were quickly proved in his runs with the club, 82 WHEELS AND WHEELING. for whereas several members had been able to holdhim when he was riding his ordinary, with the newmount he was able to show the whole club his backwheel, especially up-hill. This practical proof of the value of the machinedecided Messrs. Starley & Sutton to go ahead, andwithin a month or two the example of Messrs. Hill-man, Herbert & Cooper, who had introduced theKangaroo with a big road race, was followed, and ahundred miles contest was arranged. Upon that testpractically hung the future of the machine. Had thetimes accomplished fallen short of those made in theK

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