Take first the differences between a modern ordinary bicycle and the old velocipede, or “bone-shaker,” so called. The former is lighter and better made; but the one great difference is that the rider is more nearly over his work. It was this one advance which encouraged the development of other minor differences which had been roughly thought out before. In fact, the Patent Office shows that many of these improvements were on record, but there would have been little use for them if the rider had not worked himself up into a place where he could do something. Just who raised him up from a midway position between the two wheels, the saddle seventy-five degrees back of the vertical through the drive-wheel axle, as in the old bone-shaker, to nearly the top of the forward wheel, working at an angle of thirty degrees, as in some ordinaries, we will not attempt to say; but when he got there he has been willing, for a long time at least, to try to stay there, even at the expense of frequently going _down_ on the other side, much to his annoyance, particularly as the general construction of the thing compelled him to go down the other end up, which end nature did not intend for terrestrial impact. It may as well be stated just here, however, that when our rider raised and moved his saddle forward he would have gone clear up to the vertical had it not been that it was absolutely impossible for him to stay there at all without hanging a heavy counter-balance somewhere in the neighborhood of the rear wheel, a scheme which, by the way, has been really recommended in modern cycle history. One excuse for dwelling upon the foregoing dissertation is that many casual observers and some riders, strange as it may seem, assert that in the development of the modern rear-driving Rover pattern, we have been retrograding to the old velocipede, whereas, in fact, we have made another step forward of a similar nature to that spoken of before in raising the rider up above the point of application of power. In the Rover machine we have landed the rider practically where, as before said, he could not remain at all before; but in this new machine he has gained the advantage of being able to stay there.