Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-14
COMFORT RULES IN
1874 MOTORCYCLES
Riders Ease and Pleasure Mainly
Considered in This Years
Indian Models

The one best bet for pleasure in the
line of motoring, unless you feel as
though you must spend q good deal
all the time. is the motorcycle-and at
that you don't get the real good out of
a motorcycle unless you have some-
one with you. You can't take the
whole family, of course, but most
young fellows would be satisfi-d with
one of the family at time And for
economy the motorcycle makes any
other sport of the day appear ridicu-
lous.
Motorcycling in this year 1914 has
gone about as far as human ingenuity
could devise or human imagination
conceive. Bouncing, humping, excess
sive speeding, fiendish noises, slathers
of grease and oil, experimental and
inadequate equipment of all sorts have
all gone by the board. Comfort, solid
! comfort. is the keynote of this years S
motorcycling. The machines will go
fast enough to take the conceit out
! of the any automobile that uses the
L w
| business as motorcyclist out for solid
comfort Is going to burn the roads up
| with the power that is built into his
machine for the purpose OF taking him
up any old hill. That sort of thing Is
passing out of fashion. This years
motorcyclists will have more real en-
/ joyment, more of the best there is in
life. than ever before. And the side
car, now perfected, enables you to.take
the girl along.
| Take the electric lighting. That
| gives you steady, clear stream OF
brilliant illumination that makes the
bumps far more clear than they are in
daylight. Take the two-speed gear
| That cuts your gear ratio 70 per cent
with trivial motion of your hand,
and sends you up the steepest hill on
| earth as smoothly as a bicycle coasts
| down grade. Take the spring frame.
| 1T rides you over car tracks. ruts and
thank-you-marms so cleverly you
would not know they were there.
These are some of the cardinal fea-
lures Of the new machines. There are
thirty or so improvements, refinements
and betterments that have taken the
worry and the take-a-chance out of
| the sport
But get back to the economy for a
minute. Do you know that you can
| run motorcycle for next to nothing
Inat is no press agent statement. Ask
| any motorcyclist. When you can go
sixty or seventy or eighty miles, ac-
cording to the condition of the air and
your skill as a motorist, on a gallon
of gasoline, and a hundred miles on
20 cents worth of OIL how much is 1t
| going to cost you to take little run
| of twenty miles? About the price of
| cigar. Will 1t be worth it? Per-
haps not, If your board bill is regu-
| lated by the size of your appetite. Ano
the JOY of coasting smoothly up hill
| and down. around corners into beauti-
| full valleys, far and away as far as
you feel like going. without fatigue
and without worry in the world
millions couldn't buy the exultation
| of 1t.
The world has never seen q finer
motorcycle than this years Indian
One careful examination of it will
| make that clear to any man, whether
he thinks he would like to own g
motorcycle or not. But there is 6
good deal more than the machine tha
have to do with real pleasure in the
sport. The chief thing to look out for
next to getting a good machine, o
which there are half a dozen bull
as we'll as the makers know how t,
make them, Is to find q dealer VIII,
watches for the comfort and pleasur,
of his patrons. The West End Elec
trio and Cycle Company, George Il
Hewitt and A. E. Gettys, heads of tn,
concern, have been identified will
Harrisburg motorcycling affairs 70
years. AS agents for the Indian the,
have done great deal to put Harris
; burg on the motorcycling map.