The evening times., 1896-07-24
.MAk|NG 4 GIANT CYCLE
Quindecuplet Will Accommo-
date Fifteen Riders.
BICYCLE AGAINST YACHT
Divisions Annual Meet
at Pittsburg VIII Rival The National
Gathering ut LOuisville-Hints ON
How to Avoid idAccidents--GrOw OF
Wheel Slan Hns Been Slow.


Wheel Slan ny Hns Been Slow.
a New York manufacturing concern
Is constructing giant cycle which will
be known as the quindecupet-a wheel
u accommodate fifteen riders. And there
are no passengers. Everyone on the ma
chine will have 10 work his or her way.
The handicapped when completed will be
the most remarkable thing ever turned
out OF a bicycle shop. The sextuplet,
which some people thing can be propelled
faster than the Empire State express; has
become an old story, and AN English firm
has already turned out IL machine with
twelve saddles. This fifteen-man wheel
is far greater undertaking than the duo
decuplet, for the strain and the consequent
necessity for strength and nicely of con-
struction multiply in increased proportion
as the number OF riders is increased.
The Zig wheel is not bicycle. 1t
travels upon three wheels, and abaft the
front saddle, occupied by the steersinan,
II is practically two seven-men bicycles,
joined up side by side. The forward or
siccrsman's wheel will lie 20 inches in
diameter, the two rear wheels 80 inches.
The tubing OF the bracket forwards into
which the frames are inserted, will, owing
to the enormous weight and strain, have
TO he OF double the ordinary thickness,
which is l-16 OF an inch. The frame
tubing will be almost solid, Ia inches
in thickness. 1t will be doubiy REINFORCED
all around. The finest of steel tubing will
be used.
The gear will be 1853, more than twice
that of the ordinary tandems, and each
revolution, with a force OF those fifteen
pairs of legs back of il, will drive this CEN
tipede of cycles about 6S feet. The chains
will not be different from those in general
use. The tires will be three Inches in diam
eter, with the rubber one fourth OF an inch
thick and double REINFORCED where they
come in contact with the ground. Tie
tangent spokes will be one-eighth of an
inch thick, which is double the thickness OF
those used in everyday bikes There
will he Que bottom bracket to each saddle,
and all will lie made doubly strong.
A race has been arranged to take place
tomorrow in the vicinity Of New York he
tween u bicycle and Il yacht. 1t has grown
out OF discussion as to the relative speed
of these two modes of lOcomotion. \ MEM
her of the Pavonia Yacht Club maintained
that yacht would sail faster in IA whole
sail breeze than u bicycle could he ridden.
Ralph W. Burnham accepted the challenge,
and the race Will be run from Armstrong
place and Garfield avenue to Bergen Point.
The yacht will sail from Caven Point 10
Bergen Point.
The annual meet OF the Pennsylvania
division. which will be held in Pittsburg
in August. will he one of the leading events
OF the year. and in all probability will rival
the national meet at Louisville These an
nual gatherings are events which re al
ways long remembered by those who are
fortunate enough To attend, and the Penn
sylvania meet should be kept in mind when
the vacation period S being arranged
tits expected that when the public reaches
the enclosure of ountain Ferry track there
will be an exolamation: Where IS Foun-
tain Ferry track" Manufacturers of bi-
cycles have outdone all previous efforts to
obtain advertising space in connection with
the Louisville meet. which is the annual
gathering ofthe Lea que of American Wheel
men To such ends have the makers gone
that the Signs and posters will oblteratc
all traces of the scenery for which the blue
grass sregioniscelebrated.
WheelmcD insist upon causing ceaseless
annoyance TO themselves and their breth-
ren by failing TO comply with the COM
mon rules laid down for all riders. So
many accidents have happened on the
road which might have been avoided with
q little caution, that is is necessary for
them to observe the following hints:
Keep to tie light of the road. Never
neglect this.
Request permission OF pedestrians for
tile right of way.
Turn to one side for leavy load, even
if YOU are on the right side.
Be ever ready to assist n female rider
in distress on the road, without the for
mality of an Introduction.
Don't scorch. This means you.
Ride no faster than an eight mile an
hour gaitin passing through villages where
YOU are unfamiliar with the ordinances.
II will save you money.
And don't say. Get out of the way
to any chance pedestrian who may appear
in your path.
writer in Western journal wonders
why, in the East. where cycling is so
universal, and where it had its origin.
there is not a more general wheel slang.
He goes Oh to say:
'Cyclist is a legitimate and comprehen-
sive word that is shorter than wheclman
or wheelwoman. In far away New Zea-
land the awful word "cyclodonne" has
been coined as Il substitute for wheel
woman. In many Western towns The fair
rider is called n "boomer,'' without re-
gard TO her costume. The word ..scorch-
err as indicating a speedy 'cyclist, is
fairly engrafted upon the language. In