O diese Radler! Ein lustiges Handbuch fur alle Radfahrer und Nichtradfahrer
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Contents
- Opening song dedicated to cyclists of every kind worldwide, celebrating the bicycle's triumph over the horse and the steam train and closing with the cry 'Allheil dem Räderthiere!'; signed Edwin Bormann.
- Cartoon of an exaggerated, top-heavy high-wheel rider as a small boy, Pepi, imagines a champion cyclist to look; signed A. Roeseler.
- Cartoon of a fashionable young mother cycling through a park with her infant seated in a basket mounted on the bicycle, passing two men on wheeled contraptions of their own.
- Cartoon depicting a modern-day street musician adapted to the bicycle age.
- Cartoon of a fanciful bicycle design intended for mountain climbing.
- Mock classified advertisement in which a cook seeking a position offers to teach the hiring family how to cycle at the same time.
- Before-and-after cartoon contrasting a couple's courtship with their appearance and manner once married.
- Cartoon imagining a future street ordinance requiring every pedestrian to wear a visible number and ring a bell whenever a cyclist approaches, under a sign reading 'riding and walking prohibited.'
- Comic parody of Goethe's ballad 'Erlkönig' in which a father cycling home at night with his son mistakes a policeman and an electric tram for supernatural threats, only to find on arrival that the boy has fallen off the back of the bicycle; signed M. Meißner.
- A captioned picture-riddle for the reader to solve.
- Cartoon of a 'sensational invention': a bicycle built around a comfortable armchair for effortless riding.
- Comic verse in Saxon dialect mocking elderly women who take up cycling, comparing their pedalling to a wobbling child's toy.
- Joke in which a student, accosted on the street by his own tailor, threatens to have him made into an 'en-tout-cas' (combination umbrella) for cyclists.
- Joke about a cyclist boasting that the bicycle now rules the world over the horse-drawn cab, undercut when an old woman climbs out of exactly such a cab beside him.
- Cartoon imagining a future in which schoolchildren pour out of the schoolhouse on bicycles at the end of the day.
- Bavarian-dialect joke about a man who cannot tell whether he is very drunk or is genuinely seeing three cyclists riding abreast.
- Joke in which Frau Weinbeerl explains she is learning to cycle purely so she can flee whenever her son-in-law annoys her.
- Mock advertisement from a quack doctor, 'Dr. Kurpfuscher,' promising to 'pedal off' unwanted weight or ailments by 1 September.
- Comic verse defending young women who cycle against their critics, praising their well-shaped calves; signed Tumo Cabali.
- Joke about a baron ordering his servant to deliver a letter 'stante velocipede' (at bicycle speed), paired with a caption on how two servants cured their master of an unwelcome enthusiasm for cycling.
- Joke about a cyclist who stops at a pharmacy for a headache remedy and finds, on returning to the street, that it is not the headache but his bicycle that has vanished.
- Short joke in which a novice cyclist boasts of great progress: he can now run people over without hurting himself.
- Cartoon caption built on a suggestive double entendre involving a whip offered to a lady cyclist.
- Cartoon of an air-cushioned safety suit designed for nervous or unsteady female cyclists.
- Joke in which a butcher's wife complains to a friend that men now 'devour her with their eyes' whenever she goes out cycling.
- Mock prediction that women's cycle racing will spread even to 'cannibal lands,' where menus will one day feature 'Radlmadl-Carbonadl' (cyclist-girl cutlets) alongside the 'cold missionary.'
- Cartoon of a man cycling with his entire family in tow, captioned with a note on how a cyclist must now be equipped to satisfy the demands of both police and public.
- Cartoon depicting the cunning schemes of a boy nicknamed Franzl.
- Cartoon imagining an infant born into a cycling-obsessed household.
- Joke, captioned simply 'Fire!', built around a colonel's wife's reaction to an alarm.
- Cartoon presenting a cycling costume claimed to satisfy every demand of aesthetics.
- Cartoon of a cyclist riding as though sleepwalking, entranced.
- Joke about a tandem-riding husband who says he rarely sees his wife, since she always rides seated behind him.
- Captioned cartoon depicting a progression or 'ladder' of stages, illustrated by cycling figures.
- Barracks-yard joke in which a sergeant mocks a one-year volunteer soldier who has signed up as a military cyclist, punning on 'Straßen-Radirer'; paired with a second joke in which Frau Nanni laments the declining morals of women who take up cycling.
- Illustrated comic verse narrative by J. Bahr following two mismatched tandem partners, the stout Herr Rund and the thin Herr Nadel, through a squabble-ridden outing over drink, direction and trust that ends with their machine breaking apart entirely.
- Cartoon caption explaining, with comic implausibility, how the cyclist Wadlmeier managed to finish first in the last long-distance race.
- Joke about a piano-maker puzzled that the household's piano pedal breaks every week, blamed on the daughter's daily bicycle riding.
- Cartoon of a wedding party's bicycle procession home threatened by an approaching thunderstorm.
- Cluster of countryside cycling jokes and captions, including a 'morning shower' caption, a pun on 'the Moor has done his duty' updated to 'the Moor can cycle too,' a flirtation joke between a cyclist and a young woman who turns out to own her own bicycle, and the aphorism that the cyclist is 'the stenographer among wanderers: he saves time and space.'
- Joke coining the word 'Velocipädagoge' for a teacher at a cycling school.
- Joke in which a bride-to-be, an avid cyclist, asks whether her fiancé would mind her devoting herself entirely to the bicycle, and receives a deliberately ambiguous reply.
- Mock personal advertisement placed by a lonely cyclist, 'tired of riding alone,' seeking a lively cyclist as a life companion.
- Joke in which a baron explains he rides only a tandem, never a solo bicycle, purely for the sake of appearances before his servant.
- Comic poem in Leipzig dialect about a young journeyman returning from a bicycle tour muddy and sunburnt, unrecognised by his sweetheart but instantly recognised and embraced by his own mother; signed F. Franzel.
- Captioned cartoon depicting a modern-style duel conducted on or around bicycles.
- Cartoon caption built around a resourceful hired coachman adapting to the bicycle age.
- Joke about a lieutenant who, saluting an older acquaintance while cycling, loses his balance, collides with him, and yet insists he already knows how to ride.
- Cartoon of an obsessive long-distance rider complaining that the earth is 'pitifully small' for his ambitions.
- Cartoon depicting a modern, bicycle-assisted elopement or abduction.
- Joke about the servant Johann who, though his master has traded his last riding horse for a bicycle, still walks the machine up and down after every outing out of habit, 'to cool it off,' paired with a caption of Mrs. von Güldenstern's golden boy's first bicycle outing.
- Joke in which a henpecked husband explains that his bride already owned her own bicycle before their marriage, and that now, with a shared tandem, they visit every tavern along the road 'like nine devils' passing by.
- Joke about two cyclists passing each other, one still a beginner, who boasts of his astonishing progress just before falling off mid-sentence and admitting he still cannot talk and ride at the same time.
- Cartoon of a high-wheel bicycle rigged with an umbrella and waterproof gear for riding in a downpour, startling bystanders as lightning flashes overhead; signed G. Liberati.
- Joke about an older woman thrilled to imagine that a dashing passing cyclist has rung his bell specially for her.
- Joke in which a child asks her mother why a poor passing cyclist has such 'swollen' wheels, mistaking pneumatic tyres for an ailment.
- Joke about a drunk gentleman who brought home an old sewing machine from the tavern the night before, having left his own bicycle behind in exchange, captioned 'a proper cyclist.'
- Cartoon imagining bicycles put to use for street-cleaning duties in the future.
- Joke in which a cyclist, viewing a panorama exhibit of the Holy Land, boasts he could cover the eleven kilometres to Emmaus in half an hour on his bicycle.
- Captioned cartoon series depicting the stages of a woman's life as reflected in her cycling.
- Joke in which a policeman orders a cyclist to dismount on a street where riding is forbidden, and the flustered rider begs him not to issue a citation publicly since he has never learned how to dismount, only to ride.
- Cartoon caption imagining the difficulties of policing cycle traffic in the year 2000.
- Captioned cartoon of a devoted dog-lover cycling with her pet.
- Joke in which an actor, asked whether an adoring crowd has ever unharnessed his carriage horses in triumph, replies that he never had horses, but that his bicycle has twice been stolen instead.
- Cartoon of an all-round sportsman pumping up a newly patented, highly elastic bicycle tyre just as he catches sight of his beloved at a window.
- Joke in which an innkeeper explains to a returning guest that the once-hilly local landscape looks flatter now because reckless cyclists have 'worn away' the mountains.
- Pair of mock announcements: a birth notice congratulating a couple on a 'sturdy lady cyclist' rather than the hoped-for future world champion, and a joke about a lawyer nicknamed 'Justizradler' whose wife is club chairwoman.
- Joke in which a waitress calls into the kitchen for 'a bit of green fodder' for the vegetarian gentleman and 'a drop of oil' for his steel steed.
- Short joke turning on the cycling salute 'All Heil!', answered with a complaint about a bruised nose.
- Two-page captioned cartoon, 'Rival, or the Painted Cap,' depicting an artist posing as a rival for a young woman's affections.
- Cartoon imagining a future equestrian monument that depicts a cyclist rather than a horseman.
- Two-page captioned cartoon depicting a swindler's trick involving a bicycle.
- Comic verse noting that even the loneliest forest paths are no longer safe from poachers who now travel by bicycle; signed Ad. Boest.
- Joke in which a gendarme, begged to break up a brawl, refuses because he must keep watch over his own bicycle or risk having it stolen.
- Cartoon imagining bicycle-mounted artillery as the army of the future.
- Ballad-parody about a pedestrian repeatedly endangered by passing cyclists in the street, the woods and open country, who abandons walking for horseback riding and then newspaper-reading in a café, only to find the paper's advertisements are entirely for bicycles.
- Joke in which a young man, having pumped up his bicycle tyres, hopes he can now also 'pump' his uncle for the money to fund his holiday trip.
- Joke in which a father jokingly offers to 'open' for his children the bicycle tyre he filled with pure mountain air at the Arlberg pass.
- Joke in which a sports club's chairman proposes brown and blue as the club's official colours, prompting a sarcastic member to suggest black and blue instead; signed Bahr.
- Joke that a young baron's cycling exploits have outdone even those of his crusader ancestor.
- Mock-romantic ballad about the pretty 'Velocipepi' and her admirer 'Velocipeter,' whose courtship by bicycle ends when her father intercepts a love letter blown away by the wind and bans her from riding; signed B. Modern.
- Cartoon captioned 'the hunt for the hundred-mark hare,' depicting a comic bicycle chase for a cash prize.
- Joke praising a cyclist's supposedly sensible fashion choice of wearing an ice-pack on his head in the heat, mistaken for a stylish cap.
- Short comic verse contrasting an old-fashioned spinning wheel with the modern bicycle, noting that the woman who once sat spinning now sits astride a bicycle wearing trousers.
- Joke about a boy who supposedly cycles 'like lightning' - in a pure zigzag.
- Caption describing how the ropemaker Schnürl puts his cyclist son to practical use in the family rope-making business.
- Comic verse teasing thin-legged young women who cycle, arguing that only shapely calves can 'ennoble' the sport; signed Mikado.
- Cartoon, in the racial caricature typical of the period, depicting giraffes ridden as bicycle mounts at a fictional 'Fahr-Schule v. Bicycle-Club Congo.'
- Captioned cartoon built on a pun between 'Marder' (marten) and a bicycle thief.
- Joke about domestic chaos in a household where every servant except one has taken up cycling, the one exception being singled out as the household's only remaining 'pillar.'
- Cartoon depicting Father Time himself, Chronos, as an eternal cyclist.
Images in this book 133 pictures from 101 pages
Illustrations 3
(opens in a new tab) O diese Radler!
(opens in a new tab) Tailpiece
(opens in a new tab) Back cover
Cartoons 130
(opens in a new tab) Ein lustiges Handbuch
(opens in a new tab) Ein Stahlroß-Markt i. J. 1900.
(opens in a new tab) Ein Meisterfahrer nach der Vorstellung des kleinen Pepi.
(opens in a new tab) Kinderwagen iin de siècle.
(opens in a new tab) Ein Bettelmusikant der Neuzeit.
(opens in a new tab) Berg-Velociped: Sensationelle Erfindung.
(opens in a new tab) Auf der Landstraße: sonst
(opens in a new tab) jetzt.
(opens in a new tab) Eine Radler-Braut vor der Trauung
(opens in a new tab) und nach der Trauung.
(opens in a new tab) Zukunfts-Straßenbild.
(opens in a new tab) Jetzt ruf' ich zum letzten Male: Halt!
(opens in a new tab) Bilder-Räthsel.
(opens in a new tab) Sensationelle Erfindung: Das Fauteuil-Velociped.
(opens in a new tab) Modernisirt.
(opens in a new tab) Drohung
(opens in a new tab) Zur Mode.
(opens in a new tab) und Bad.
(opens in a new tab) Verfrühter Triumph.
(opens in a new tab) Vehikels noch bedienen?
(opens in a new tab) Lakonisch.
(opens in a new tab) Die Schule ist aus!
(opens in a new tab) Der verkannte Dreisitzer.
(opens in a new tab) Grausame Strafe.
(opens in a new tab) Zukunfts-Circus.
(opens in a new tab) Radfahrer-Ausrüstung in einem naßen Sommer.
(opens in a new tab) Waldi und Forst, wie sie ihrem Herrn das ihnen unangenehme Velocipedfahren abgewöhnt haben.
(opens in a new tab) Waldi und Forst (Fortsetzung): wie sie ihrem Herrn das ihnen unangenehme Velocipedfahren abgewöhnt haben.
(opens in a new tab) Velocipied-Schaukel
(opens in a new tab) Eine Meisterfahrt
(opens in a new tab) (Boshafte Zweideutigkeit:) „Brauchen S' vielleicht Prügel, Madam'?!“
(opens in a new tab) Pneumatisches Kostüm für unsichere Radfahrerinnen.
(opens in a new tab) Kleiner Irrthum.
(opens in a new tab) Herr Stahlreiter bei feinen Ausflügen 'en famille'.
(opens in a new tab) Wie ein Radfahrer jetzt ausgerüstet sein muß
(opens in a new tab) Der schlaue Franzl.
(opens in a new tab) Das Baby einer Bicyclisten-Familie.
(opens in a new tab) Entschuldbarer Irrthum.
(opens in a new tab) Feuer.... Alle Wetter, die Frau Oberst!
(opens in a new tab) Velocipied-Kostitum
(opens in a new tab) Der mondsüchtige Radfahrer.
(opens in a new tab) Stufenleiter.
(opens in a new tab) Begreiflich.
(opens in a new tab) Eine Tandem-Fahrt.
(opens in a new tab) Eine Tandem-Fahrt.
(opens in a new tab) Eine Tandem-Fahrt.
(opens in a new tab) Eine Tandem-Fahrt.
(opens in a new tab) Nach rechts und links verschwindet Jeder mit einem der Pneumatikräder. …
(opens in a new tab) Wie es kam, daß der Radfahrer Wadlmeier bei dem letzten Distanzrennen als Erster anlangte.
(opens in a new tab) Moral.
(opens in a new tab) Moderner Hochzeitszug.
(opens in a new tab) Der Radler auf dem Lande.
(opens in a new tab) Doppelsinnig.
(opens in a new tab) Deplacirte Protzerei.
(opens in a new tab) Und wieder fuhr er; aus ännem Haus
(opens in a new tab) Ein Duell fin de siècle.
(opens in a new tab) A cyclist's raised whip catches another rider, who then crashes; a wordless two-scene gag.
(opens in a new tab) Praktischer Lohnkutscher
(opens in a new tab) Merkwürdig
(opens in a new tab) Der Distanzfex.
(opens in a new tab) Moderne Entführung
(opens in a new tab) 2
(opens in a new tab) 3
(opens in a new tab) 4
(opens in a new tab) Macht der Gewöhnheit
(opens in a new tab) Vorsichtsmaßregel.
(opens in a new tab) Der Pantoffelheld auf dem Rade.
(opens in a new tab) Unangenehme Täuschung
(opens in a new tab) Versucht, unser Schneider mit seiner Alten!
(opens in a new tab) Zukunftsbild
(opens in a new tab) Praktisch
(opens in a new tab) Ein Velociped für Regenwetter
(opens in a new tab) Das Pneumatikrad.
(opens in a new tab) Verliebt
(opens in a new tab) Ein Radler comme il faut
(opens in a new tab) Ein Radler comme il faut (II)
(opens in a new tab) Ein Radler comme il faut (III)
(opens in a new tab) Ein Radler comme il faut (IV)
(opens in a new tab) Zukunfts-Straßen-Reinigung.
(opens in a new tab) In der Arena. Velociped-Quadriga-Rennen.
(opens in a new tab) Die weiblichen Stufenjahre auf dem Rade. 1.–5.
(opens in a new tab) Die weiblichen Stufenjahre auf dem Rade. 6.–9.
(opens in a new tab) In Verlegenheit
(opens in a new tab) Velociped-Nummer i. J. 2000 oder: Schwierige Controle für die Gendarmen.
(opens in a new tab) Die Hundefreundin auf dem Velociped
(opens in a new tab) Der Universal-Sportsman
(opens in a new tab) In der Zerstreutheit.
(opens in a new tab) Eine Gefahr.
(opens in a new tab) Gute Kundschaft.
(opens in a new tab) Mißverstandener Gruß
(opens in a new tab) Der Künstler als Nebenbuhler oder Die bemalte Mütze (1)
(opens in a new tab) Der Künstler als Nebenbuhler oder Die bemalte Mütze (2)
(opens in a new tab) Der Künstler als Nebenbuhler oder Die bemalte Mütze (3)
(opens in a new tab) Der Künstler als Nebenbuhler (4)
(opens in a new tab) Der Künstler als Nebenbuhler (5)
(opens in a new tab) Der Künstler als Nebenbuhler (6)
(opens in a new tab) Zukunfts-Reiterstandbild.
(opens in a new tab) Gaunerkniff.
(opens in a new tab) Gaunerkniff (2).
(opens in a new tab) Gaunerkniff (3).
(opens in a new tab) Gaunerkniff (4).
(opens in a new tab) Gaunerkniff (5).
(opens in a new tab) Gaunerkniff (6).
(opens in a new tab) Der Polizeiradler
(opens in a new tab) Die Artillerie der Zukunft.
(opens in a new tab) Der Radler-Absalom (1).
(opens in a new tab) Der Radler-Absalom (2).
(opens in a new tab) Der Radler-Absalom (3).
(opens in a new tab) Der Radler-Absalom (4).
(opens in a new tab) Der Radler-Absalom (5).
(opens in a new tab) In den Ferien.
(opens in a new tab) Was der Papa von der Reise mitgebracht hat
(opens in a new tab) Passende Farben.
(opens in a new tab) Uebertroffen.
(opens in a new tab) Velociped-Ballade
(opens in a new tab) Velociped-Ballade
(opens in a new tab) Velociped-Ballade
(opens in a new tab) Velociped-Ballade
(opens in a new tab) Neues Velociped-Wettrennen.
(opens in a new tab) Verkannte Sportmütze.
(opens in a new tab) Rädchen und Rad.
(opens in a new tab) Praktisch
(opens in a new tab) Radschule des ersten Centralafrikanischen Riesenthier-Radler-Klubs.
(opens in a new tab) Der Fahrrad-Marder (1)
(opens in a new tab) Der Fahrrad-Marder (2)
(opens in a new tab) Der Fahrrad-Marder (3)
(opens in a new tab) Der Fahrrad-Marder (4)
(opens in a new tab) Eine moderne "Stütze der Hausfrau"
(opens in a new tab) Zukunftsbild
(opens in a new tab) Chronos, der ewige Radler.