Cycling art, energy and locomotion: a series of remarks on the development of bicycles, tricycles, and man-motor carriages (1889)
Scott, Robert Pittis · Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott · leaf 124
of the fork in relation to steering, it reallyhas necessarily nothing to do with it, since a perfectlystraight fork could have a more vertical head bearingthan one much curved. The slant of the pivotal line is the important feat- F 11 122 CYCLING ART, ENERGY, AND LOCOMOTION. ure, and this may be… … Rear-driver front forks. Any of the four patterns above work exactly thesame in the hands of the rider. So much for the manner of obtaining slant of thehead or pivotal connection, as we shall call it; but as CASTERING. 123 to the amount of this slaut it is desirable to obtainmuch more can be said.…
Cycling · Bicycles
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