CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES
ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT. | Thoubled.— The cause of the knocking, especially as it commenced from the very first time the machine was run on the road, is not due to any defect in the construction ar too high a compression, 6iit to the fact that you are riding a machine with too high a gear for your weight and the gradients you expect it to go up without pedalling. Lower the gear and allow the engine to run faster and develop more power, when you should find the trouble, complained of will disappear. If you can possibly arrange it do not reduce the diameter of the engine pulley, but increase the diameter of the belt rim. :
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Otago Witness, Issue 2714, 21 March 1906, Page 55
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119CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES Otago Witness, Issue 2714, 21 March 1906, Page 55
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