The pleasures, objects, and advantages of cycling : with numerous illustrations (1887)
Wilson, A. J., Cyclist · London : Iliffe & Son · leaf 77
me with skating ; but skating beginners are on thesame level as their tutors, so they do not get such chances to fallon top of them as do cycling beginners. Learning is amusing,decidedly ; especially for the lookers-on. Let us draw a veilover this period of cycling. Those who have learnt to… … DOWNHILL. rewards him by feelings of conscious pride at his consummateaddress, and he yearns to be regarded as quite a Go-it-Graceful, if not, indeed, one of the Fancy Few. By the time he becomes really master of his machine, hediscovers that cycling is a pastime which has features farremoved…
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