The pleasures, objects, and advantages of cycling : with numerous illustrations (1887)
Wilson, A. J., Cyclist · London : Iliffe & Son · leaf 95
but for one short day ?Why throwing away the best years of my life In this dreary monotonous way ?A little touring would bring more health And pleasure than any cup;So, as to training for handicaps— Henceforth I give that up! No longer weary and worn, But ruddy and healthily red,A bicyclist over… … CHAPTER VII. CURIOSITIES OF CYCLING. /TVIS a mad wheel world, my masters, and the dweller in•*■ Cyclonia meets with many strange developments in bothmen and machines. In the latter respect, curiosities arebecoming less plentiful than when the principles of construc-tion were not so widely…
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