The Bearings, Vol 5, No 1
Articles in this issue
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Comic vignette in which a policeman enthusiastically demonstrates his appreciation for a clubable fellow by thrashing a sidewalk-riding wheelman with his nightstick.
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Deadpan observation that the rider wearing medals may actually be a crack racing man, confounding the usual assumption about showy cyclists.
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Road-side exchange between a slow rider and a scorcher about travel time to a nearby town, the answer depending entirely on who is doing the riding.
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Dialect joke about a new rider experimenting with inflatable 'rumatick' tires, playing on period stereotypes.
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Admiring note about Major Knox-Holmes completing century runs at eighty-four years old, with a pun on his being very 'age-ile.'
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Anecdote praising Bolivar as the most remarkable wheelman because he honestly admits he cannot name the best machine made.
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Dry joke about a wheelman who publicly claims to have no opinion on the amateur law and privately has even less.
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Comic exchange in which a dealer offers a cyclometer that reads 10,000 miles and the customer wants to test it by riding that distance first.
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Riddle about a man who grows richer the more his goods are sat upon, the answer being a bicycle saddle manufacturer.