The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-07-03
THE BICYCLE IN 1898.
How tho vince May Look One undref
Years From Now.

How the Wheel May Look One Hundred
Years From Now.
The bicycle Of 1898 will DO built on very
much tho same lines az tho safety OF 1875
Il g., with two small wheels very nearly OF
n aize. This was the plan Of the first ma
chine. built in 1917. and now. after a iarse
of seventy six years, We have come BACK 70
thc original design. A machine on snis
plan can be built stronger and iigns.' snan
an anv other model. With the weight bc-
evsen two wheels there is less vibration
chan when IL 10 over either one OF them. a.
in psssinR over An obstruction the ueighs IL
lifted enly half the distance in the Former
ease that II 10 70 the latter.
Thsn. BY the use Of some alloy OF grea.sr
Aenste q rcnRth, weight for weight. than
steel and BY filing the tires and the tubes
In the framing with hydrogen instead OF
Air. the weighs of a road machine Will Dc
reduced 10 ten pounds or less, while racing
machines will not weigh half that mucn.
The machines will also be made so thas u
can be folded up ard carried about or
atoved away in some corner. BY improve
mepts in the construction or the bearings
OF moving pats friction will be almoss
wholly eliminated and the method OF ap-
plyinn power will be so perfected thas
there will be absolutely no such thing as
lOst power.
The roads will be prepared esneciaily Tor
bicycles, the grades beng We y slight and,
in fact. only sufficient to provide proper
drainage. The surface will be hard ana
smooth, the outer edge OF all curves being
raised as on q race track. The roads Will
rs kent clean. as ~ that time ths horse
will be found only in geological gardens.
Thu Improvement in the rider Will Do
euually marked. From the continued ana
increasing use OF the wheel a RAGS of people
will be evolved that will take to cycling as
,endily as a foreign immigrant does to pol
itics, Taking all these things into consld-
Grafton. we may expect an average speed OF
thirty miles an hour on the road and sixty
miles an hour on the track. The use OF the
machine will be universal.
Children will be taught TO ride as thoy
are now taught to walk. The suburbs or
our great cities will extend from sixty to 100
have expired, and suoh large quantities of
hicyo,es will be manufactured that the
cost will be nominal and within she reach
OF all, There will be no more crowded
tenement houses. The artisan. who VIII
work only four hours a day. will live with
his family in a cozY little home in the sub
urbs, where he can SEQ the sunshine and
breathe the fresh air. The use of the wheel
will have 10 improved tho stamina and
physique Of the race that the only causes OF
death will be old age and accidents.
Railroads will be used for the trsnspof-
Satlon Of fIe1Gnt only. EVERY ihuisiuuai
will own n bicycle. Those intended for
long distance travel will be run BY small
but powerful storage batteries, which may
be charged at automatic electric stations
by connecting the battery to n dynamo and
dropping a coin of small value into a slot.
With machines of this character it will be
possible TO attain a speed of $50 miles an
hour, and to overcome the wind pressure
they will be fitted with vedge-shaped wind
shields made of some tough yet transparent
substance. The bicy Gle will not be used in
war for the simple reason that as dyspep-
STA will be unknown everybody will feel 80
we'll and be so good humored and disin-
clined to quarrel that there will DO no one
TO 90 to war.-Soranton Truth.