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

134 CYCLE REPAIRING lever may be fixed, if on the handle-bar, to the right or left, in a position convenient to the rider, most riders, of course, preferring the right-hand side. The barrel should be so placed that the lever may be moved from the near position easily by the thumb and pushed over to the farthest position by the lower part of the hand. Fix the Bowden-casing with the fulcrum clip to the top tube of the machine, leaving sufficient slack in the outer wire for the adjustment of the handle-bar. Attach the pulley wheel to the diagonal tube of the machine and pass the actuating wire over it ; screw the milled nipple on to the screw fixed on the end of the small chain. The mechanism is now ready for setting. The wire should be a little slack with lever in the low-gear notch, if three- speed hub. In the case of the tri-coaster the wire should be slack on normal gear. “ When the gears of the three-speed hub are correctly adjusted and the change lever is at the normal gear— that is, the middle notch—the end of the spindle b (the indicator) will be level with the end of hub axle, as seen through the hole in the step a. If the indicator projects, slacken the locking nut i at the end of the wire near the chain, and, with the ' thumb and forefinger, turn the nipple just above it, H, until the indicator is level with the end of the hub axle; then tighten the locking nut and the adjustment is complete. If from any cause, when the lever is in the normal notch, the indicator is drawn inside the end of the axle, then the nipple h should be unscrewed until the indicator comes out level with the axle end. The indicator is only to show when the