A New Velocipede.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 115, 10 April 1884, Page 2

A New Velocipede.

Word conie.s_ from the. States of a new invention m the cycle line. This new concern is patented ..as* $he "Unicycle Velocipede." , ,It^«onsists of a single gigantic wheel," vmh -tlj.§. usual double series of spokes .diverging frpni the tire to the, Hubs, at each' end df; what ought to bir the : axle',' but' it is ? not. The hubs are connected, Htft iii ■• such a fa^hioii' that room is left tn* Bide the wheel for ; the' drii'ei* of;tli^' thing. The wheel' may be i' $bni, seven :to ten feet m : diameter. v Tie " " cyclist, can stands sity or :tide at;viU . inside; He cannot. he thrown ont -or, over, and is thus safe front* accident/ : The inventor claims that the concern r , can be driven faster or! slower than" .' the ordinary bicycleiand can.be brought _. even to-^standstill,. This things , a .'■■■ what wbeeliuemhave bejen Jooking. for ;: for years. The'greafc trouble with; the; bycicle has been" 1 that when it °ttim down a ; jbaby therider is inora liable to 7 '; get hurt than the baby;. The neSy I '[ unicycle velocipede is free, from suet shortcomings, ... The inventor state§7<r that one of the things ten feet m • ifra-^L meter can go as fast as a locomotive on an ordinary road without the fellow; inside feeling uneasy, while the 'people outside, need not feel uneasy eifcljer. If the ten foot invention hits them they never, know it. They never know anything 1 af terwauls.