The Bearings, Vol 5, No 12
Articles in this issue
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A reinstated professional racer bursts into the editorial office to threaten the editor, who cleverly offers to retract the reform claim and simply say the man has not reformed.
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Advice that the best way to test a man's real religion and honesty is to buy a second-hand wheel from him.
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Observation that it is useless to advise a scorcher to stop and think — the thinking must come first.
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The poet who wrote 'Man wants but little here below' had evidently never seen the advertising pages of a bicycle paper.
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Satirical exchange in which the ardent anti-professional writer reveals he would race for twenty-five dollars, undermining his principles.
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Comic prediction that a play featuring prominent racing cracks riding on stage should, after 'a long run on the road,' join the Century Club.
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Story of competing bicycle-related accidents: a hat blowing into a woman's eye costs twenty-five dollars in doctor's fees, but a new wheel striking another's eye costs a hundred and forty.
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A photograph of the finish of a great one-mile event is praised as a 'taking picture' because it shows Windle taking the thousand-dollar piano from Zimmerman.
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Classroom math problem about how long one repairer takes alone is dismissed as beyond algebra, and probably beyond calculation at that.