The Wheel and cycling trade review . dot banquet ofder Pawnbrokers Association last nide. So! Vat vos dot? Dey refused ter drink anyting but hock. TO ACCOMODATE THE NOVICE CROP. I say, Mr. Medders, the advent of thebicycle and the consequent decline of thehorse must have hurt you farmers consider-ably by cutting off the demand for one ofyour chief products. What product is that? Why, it must be of little use to raise oatsnow! Yes; thats so! The bicycle has done uson that; but when one door shuts anotheralways opens. We raise the arnica plantnow. IN THE BEGINNING. What a terrible instrument of
The Wheel and cycling trade review . dot banquet ofder Pawnbrokers Association last nide. So! Vat vos dot? Dey refused ter drink anyting but hock. TO ACCOMODATE THE NOVICE CROP. I say, Mr. Medders, the advent of thebicycle and the consequent decline of thehorse must have hurt you farmers consider-ably by cutting off the demand for one ofyour chief products. What product is that? Why, it must be of little use to raise oatsnow! Yes; thats so! The bicycle has done uson that; but when one door shuts anotheralways opens. We raise the arnica plantnow. IN THE BEGINNING. What a terrible instrument of torture thosenine-inch brake-levers on the old ordinariesmust have been. If you ever undertook coasting with oneyou would think they were a torture. What a relief it must have been to the old-timer when he reached the bottom of a hilland could let go his brake. Well, I should say it was; but what of it? Oh, nothing; I was just thinking thatmaybe that was the origin of the expression,the glad hand, thats all. IMPROVED INDOOR With a home trainer, electric fan and cinematograph all the pleasures of a tour can be had ina hall bedroom. COLD AS A SPEED-KILLER. Every winter-riding wheelman notices thatno matter how good the roads may be, orhowever fit for the work he himself is, hecannot ride anything like the same distancehe covered with ease during the cold air uses up so much of his vitalitythat he has not the strength to ride as faras in the summer with its warmth. In Dixons interesting book, The Migra-tion of Birds, it is noted that nothing sointerferes with the flights of birds of passage,or causes them so frequently to seek rest, asa strong cold wind behind them. That afavoring wind, even though it be a cold one,should prove exhausting sounds rather ex-traordinary, but the reason is plain. Thewind blows up their feathers and so chillsthe flesh that the bird is forced to descendand recoup. Cycling has often been compared to flying,so the foregoing regarding
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