Show THE WHEEL NEXT YEAR A Few of tho Many Varieties of Bikes Now Before the Public To tho Editor of Tile HERALD Nowadays ono hardly knows what sort of a bicycle to buy Tho styles change as fast as tho fashions in ladies apparel A couple of years ago the big wheel machine was all the rage running from fifty to sixty inchss in diamoter with a very little 18 inch brother behind and a young and ambitious rider could hardly find a wheel tall enough for him then Now the small equal wheel safety of twentysix to thirty Inches has run its big brother almost entirely en-tirely off the road Enthusiastic wheelmen are eagerly looking forward to the signs for the season of IhOO Interest is roexeited in a good two speed pear for safeties about forty and sixty inches the lower gear of course for bill climbing 1 ho demand is growing for such a contrivance simple quick easy light and durable There is a leaning again toward a sort of pony machine with sun and planet gearing gear-ing sometliiig like tho geared Facile The Facile in Europe and the American Ameri-can Safety on this continent appear to be tho only live representatives of the pony ordinary Thi Xtra sacred the memory mem-ory of Dr Groves appears to be gone eud though a very good machine The Rover type killtd it All those three are lover machines There is much desire in the direction of lessening the vibration or jar and shaking on rough roads which wears on the nervous ner-vous system In Europe at least the now pneumatic or I Inflated hollow rubber tyro is exciting great and increasing interest Like many other useful inventions it may not yet be fully perfected but that it has creat excellence ex-cellence can no longer bo reasonably doubted It is not a new idea but a nose working out of an old idea Those who have used it give it high praise such as that it Is an assured success that it will revolutionize the bicycle and tricycle trade I that it is scarcely possible to exaggerate he importance of the invention tbat a new I era is dawning for riders who live where bad roads abound that means us that a pneumatic tyred machine is the most comfortable com-fortable ever ridden that nothing can come nar iton a grass track tout the absence of vibration is delightful even when running run-ning over stones that tho roughnesses in the read surf ice are absolutely not felt at all tbat the machine runs with remarkable ease that it slips along without any trouble at all that is almost as good on the ave age road as I solid tyred machine is on the path that on all rough roads it iscxtremely satisfactory and tOut this rw tyre is simply perfection all which is claiming a good deal and it challenges the attention of the wheel world The pneumatic tyre is two and a half inches in-ches in diameter and is made of rubber and canvass cemented on a wide and rather flat rim It has a heavy look but is really very light A hole or nozzlo passes through both rim and rubber to which a small valve ie attached Inflation is quickly effected or renewed by means of a three ounce brass 53 ringe or a football bladder Great things are expected of this new kind of tyro The only objection yet dis covred is that when running on tenacious mud it increases the sdo slipping tendency of small wheel safeties the large inflated tyre flattening the stiff mud white the thinner solid common tyre cuts down into it Un all other kinds of road especially loose and roueh ones tho vast superiority of the pneumatic tyre appears to be beyond controversy O > S courseat will take time to fully settle tho question of durability A company is being formed in Dublin Ireland to manufacture this new sort oft of-t es under ablo and experienced management manage-ment with tho object of supplying the trade This very valuable invention will probably be in use to somo extent in this country next year for such a comfortable contrivance is i greatly needed ontbo awful aw-ful v rough roads of this westernhemis phere ih WHEEL |