Cycle Repairing and Adjusting
With a Chapter on building a Bicycle from a Set of Parts

CYCLE REPAIRING CHAPTER I The Complete Overhauling of a Bicycle This chapter will deal thoroughly with the overhauling of a machine which has been laid by for some time, or which has even been in constant use, but which would be all the better for a thorough overhaul and adjustment. It is surprising how much better a machine will run after it has been properly cleaned and adjusted, and the result is, without doubt, well worth the time expended. It will assist every cyclist, and especially the cycle maker and repairer, to familiarise himself with the anatomy of a typical machine. That shown in the diagram (Fig. 1) is of no particular make, but is representative of the every- day modern bicycle. The full set of parts illustrated by Figs. 2 to 5 are of the Rudge-Whitworth machine, and the reference numbers tally with those on the diagram, Fig. 1, but it will be observed that some of the details necessarily vary from those shown in the complete machine, which, as already explained, does not show any special model. The type of machine shown by these figures is the universal chain-driven “ safety ” ; but most readers will be aware that there is one other broad type in existence, that in which the impulse given by the rider’s feet is conveyed