The pleasures, objects, and advantages of cycling : with numerous illustrations (1887)
Wilson, A. J., Cyclist · London : Iliffe & Son · leaf 28
into the capabilities of what is still regarded,by many, as a mere childish amusement. I wras asked, a short time ago, what good cycling does me ;and my reply was that cycling has saved my life. It was atruthful answer ; for my friends know, as I do, that before Itook to cycling I was marked down… … Ok Yiiyla. HWV -^^rrctC *&A* CHAPTER II. THE HISTORY OF CYCLES AND CYCLING. ^THE earliest record of cycling, as an amusement, dates-*• from the commencement of the present century, whenmen of quality and fashion took to riding hobby horses consisting of two wheels connected by vertical forks…
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