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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Rucker Tandem Bicycle. naries were removed, and their driving wheels werethen connected by a bar. Both riders drove; butthey steered independently, and the rear rider, inaddition to preserving his own balance, was obliged totrack with the leader. This was not always an easytask, and side falls could easily occur. In fact, therewere so few advantages in this form of tandem, that itnever became very popular, and has long since disap-peared. TRICYCLES. 133 The success of the Kangaroo type, and its rapid riseinto popular favor, caused attention to be turned tothe possible development of a tandem from it, andexperiments were made with this in view. They werenot successful, however, and soon ceased, as the Rover
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Wilsons Safety Tandem. type quickly began to crowd the Kangaroo from thefield. With the assured success of the Rover, the tandemidea once more appeared. At first the simplest andmost direct method of carrying it out seemed to beWilsons plan of placing the second seat immediatelyin front of the handle bar, carrying curved handles 134 WHEELS AND WHEELING. around for the front rider and lengthening the frontforks to carry chain wheels and chain in Kangaroostyle. But this plan did not prove successful in oper-ation, for, as Mr. Wilson himself says, owing to thegreat rake of the front fork, the front riders weighttends to turn the steering wheel violently out of astraight line and the rear rider is therefore compelledto use tremendous arm force in steering. Anothertandem on rather exceptional lines was the Dart. Ithad a 32-inch driver and 24-inch steerer. The rear

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