O diese Radler! Ein lustiges Handbuch fur alle Radfahrer und Nichtradfahrer

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• Velocipedlied. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Ein Meiſterfahrer nach der Vorſtellung des kleinen Pepi. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon of an exaggerated, top-heavy high-wheel rider as a small boy, Pepi, imagines a champion cyclist to look; signed A. Roeseler.
• Kinderwagen fin de siecle. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Ein Bettelmuſikant der Neuzeit. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon depicting a modern-day street musician adapted to the bicycle age.
• Berg-Velociped. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon of a fanciful bicycle design intended for mountain climbing.
• Moderne Annonce. (opens in a new tab)

  Mock classified advertisement in which a cook seeking a position offers to teach the hiring family how to cycle at the same time.
• Metamorphoſe. (opens in a new tab)

  Before-and-after cartoon contrasting a couple's courtship with their appearance and manner once married.
• Zukunfts⸗Straßenbild. (opens in a new tab)

  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.'
• Der moderne Erlkönig. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Bilder⸗Räthſel. (opens in a new tab)

  A captioned picture-riddle for the reader to solve.
• Senſationelle Erfindung. Das Fauteuil-Velociped. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon of a 'sensational invention': a bicycle built around a comfortable armchair for effortless riding.
• Das Epigramm. (opens in a new tab)

  Comic verse in Saxon dialect mocking elderly women who take up cycling, comparing their pedalling to a wobbling child's toy.
• Drohung. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Verfrühter Triumph. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• (Ein Sufunftsbild.) Die Schule iſt aus! (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon imagining a future in which schoolchildren pour out of the schoolhouse on bicycles at the end of the day.
• Der verkannte Dreißiger. (opens in a new tab)

  Bavarian-dialect joke about a man who cannot tell whether he is very drunk or is genuinely seeing three cyclists riding abreast.
• Grauſame Strafe. (opens in a new tab)

  Joke in which Frau Weinbeerl explains she is learning to cycle purely so she can flee whenever her son-in-law annoys her.
• Moderne Anzeige. Verradel' bis 1. September. (opens in a new tab)

  Mock advertisement from a quack doctor, 'Dr. Kurpfuscher,' promising to 'pedal off' unwanted weight or ailments by 1 September.
• Gegen Radel-Mädel-Tadler. (opens in a new tab)

  Comic verse defending young women who cycle against their critics, praising their well-shaped calves; signed Tumo Cabali.
• es Radfahrer⸗Ausrüſtung Seitgemäß. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Verfehlte Wirkung. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Sortſchritt. (opens in a new tab)

  Short joke in which a novice cyclist boasts of great progress: he can now run people over without hurting himself.
• (Boshafte Sweideutigkeit.) (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon caption built on a suggestive double entendre involving a whip offered to a lady cyclist.
• Pneumatiſches Roſtüm für unſichere Radfahrerinnen. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon of an air-cushioned safety suit designed for nervous or unsteady female cyclists.
• Kleiner Irrthum. (opens in a new tab)

  Joke in which a butcher's wife complains to a friend that men now 'devour her with their eyes' whenever she goes out cycling.
• Blick in die Sukunft. (opens in a new tab)

  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.'
• Perr Stablreiter, bei ſeinen Ausflügen „en famille“. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Der ſchlaue Franzl. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon depicting the cunning schemes of a boy nicknamed Franzl.
• Das Baby einer Bicyeliſten-Familie. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon imagining an infant born into a cycling-obsessed household.
• Feuer. (opens in a new tab)

  Joke, captioned simply 'Fire!', built around a colonel's wife's reaction to an alarm.
• Velociped⸗Roſtüm, das allen Anforderungen der Aeſthetik genügt. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon presenting a cycling costume claimed to satisfy every demand of aesthetics.
• Der mondſüchtige Radfahrer. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon of a cyclist riding as though sleepwalking, entranced.
• Ein Radlerpaar. (opens in a new tab)

  Joke about a tandem-riding husband who says he rarely sees his wife, since she always rides seated behind him.
• Stufenleiter. (opens in a new tab)

  Captioned cartoon depicting a progression or 'ladder' of stages, illustrated by cycling figures.
• Aus dem Kaſernhofe. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Eine Tandem⸗Fahrt. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• wie es kam daß der Radfahrer Wadlmeier bei dem letzten Diſtanzrennen als Erſter anlangte. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon caption explaining, with comic implausibility, how the cyclist Wadlmeier managed to finish first in the last long-distance race.
• Rückwirkung. (opens in a new tab)

  Joke about a piano-maker puzzled that the household's piano pedal breaks every week, blamed on the daughter's daily bicycle riding.
• Moderner Hochzeitszug. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon of a wedding party's bicycle procession home threatened by an approaching thunderstorm.
• Der Radler auf dem Lande. (opens in a new tab)

  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.'
• Ein Neues Wort. (opens in a new tab)

  Joke coining the word 'Velocipädagoge' for a teacher at a cycling school.
• Doppelſinnig. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Moderne Anzeige. Des Alleinradelns müde... (opens in a new tab)

  Mock personal advertisement placed by a lonely cyclist, 'tired of riding alone,' seeking a lively cyclist as a life companion.
• Deplacirte Protzerei. (opens in a new tab)

  Joke in which a baron explains he rides only a tandem, never a solo bicycle, purely for the sake of appearances before his servant.
• 's Wiederergännen enes Handwerksbirſchchens. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Ein Duell fin de siecle. (opens in a new tab)

  Captioned cartoon depicting a modern-style duel conducted on or around bicycles.
• Praktischer Lohnkutſcher. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon caption built around a resourceful hired coachman adapting to the bicycle age.
• Merkwürdig. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Der Diſtanzfex. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon of an obsessive long-distance rider complaining that the earth is 'pitifully small' for his ambitions.
• Moderne Entführung. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon depicting a modern, bicycle-assisted elopement or abduction.
• Macht der Gewohnheit. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Der Pantoffelheld auf dem Rade. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Heikel. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Ein Velociped ... für Regenwetter. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Aeltere Dame. (opens in a new tab)

  Joke about an older woman thrilled to imagine that a dashing passing cyclist has rung his bell specially for her.
• Das Pneumatikrad. (opens in a new tab)

  Joke in which a child asks her mother why a poor passing cyclist has such 'swollen' wheels, mistaking pneumatic tyres for an ailment.
• Stark bedufelt. (opens in a new tab)

  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.'
• Sukunfts⸗Straßen⸗Reinigung. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon imagining bicycles put to use for street-cleaning duties in the future.
• Der Radfahrer im Panorama. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Die weiblichen Stufenjahre auf dem Rade. (opens in a new tab)

  Captioned cartoon series depicting the stages of a woman's life as reflected in her cycling.
• In Verlegenheit. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Velociped⸗Kummer i. J. 2000 oder: Schwierige Controle für die Gendarmen. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon caption imagining the difficulties of policing cycle traffic in the year 2000.
• Die Pundefreundin auf dem belociped. (opens in a new tab)

  Captioned cartoon of a devoted dog-lover cycling with her pet.
• Auch ein Triumph. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Der Aniverial-Sportsman. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Eine Gefahr. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Moderne Anzeige. Surrogat. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Gute Kundſchaft. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Mißverſtandener Gruß. (opens in a new tab)

  Short joke turning on the cycling salute 'All Heil!', answered with a complaint about a bruised nose.
• Kebenbuhler oder Die bemalte Mütze. (opens in a new tab)

  Two-page captioned cartoon, 'Rival, or the Painted Cap,' depicting an artist posing as a rival for a young woman's affections.
• Sukunfts⸗Reiterſtandbild. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon imagining a future equestrian monument that depicts a cyclist rather than a horseman.
• Gaunerkniff. (opens in a new tab)

  Two-page captioned cartoon depicting a swindler's trick involving a bicycle.
• Variante. (opens in a new tab)

  Comic verse noting that even the loneliest forest paths are no longer safe from poachers who now travel by bicycle; signed Ad. Boest.
• Der Polizeiradler. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Die Artillerie der Zukunft. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon imagining bicycle-mounted artillery as the army of the future.
• Der Radler⸗Abſalom. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• In den Serien. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Was der Papa von der Reife mitgebracht bat. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Paſſende Farben. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Uebertroffen. (opens in a new tab)

  Joke that a young baron's cycling exploits have outdone even those of his crusader ancestor.
• Delociped: Ballade. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Neues Velociped-Wettrennen. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon captioned 'the hunt for the hundred-mark hare,' depicting a comic bicycle chase for a cash prize.
• Verkannte Sportmütze. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Rädchen und Rad. (opens in a new tab)

  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.
• Beltätiat. (opens in a new tab)

  Joke about a boy who supposedly cycles 'like lightning' - in a pure zigzag.
• Praktiſch. (opens in a new tab)

  Caption describing how the ropemaker Schnürl puts his cyclist son to practical use in the family rope-making business.
• Radler⸗Reime. (opens in a new tab)

  Comic verse teasing thin-legged young women who cycle, arguing that only shapely calves can 'ennoble' the sport; signed Mikado.
• Fahrſchule des erſten Centralafrikaniſchen Bicycliſten-Klubs. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon, in the racial caricature typical of the period, depicting giraffes ridden as bicycle mounts at a fictional 'Fahr-Schule v. Bicycle-Club Congo.'
• Der Fahrrad⸗Marder. (opens in a new tab)

  Captioned cartoon built on a pun between 'Marder' (marten) and a bicycle thief.
• ine moderne „Stütze der Hausfrau“. (opens in a new tab)

  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.'
• Chronos, der ewige Radler. (opens in a new tab)

  Cartoon depicting Father Time himself, Chronos, as an eternal cyclist.