The Bearings, Vol 5, No 19
Articles in this issue
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Proposes that bicycle manufacturers study the black beetle, which carries ninety-six times its weight, hoping to learn how to build an eighteen-pound wheel strong enough for a hundred-and-fifty-pound rider.
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Observation that the driving wheel of a bicycle is identical to Fortune's wheel — everything is lovely as long as one is on top.
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Warning that it is a miss-guided youth who allows the steering rod of a tandem to be connected to the front handlebars when a girl is in the saddle.
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Refutation of an anti-cycling speaker who claims to have contracted an incurable disease of great malignity from riding — pointing out that he was born with the disease of lying.
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Wordplay on the proverb that love levels all things, with the caveat that riders should love hilly roads if they want them flattened.
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Comic verse expressing love for a bicycle that is bright and light, written in the form of an ad rather than genuine poetry.
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A mother promises good children they may watch their father struggle to clean the chain on his bicycle as their reward.
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Observation that the rider who cycles at night without a lamp has learned to keep things dark, though the penalty when caught is not always light.
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A Chicago tourist in Philadelphia runs into a horse car because he cannot ride slowly enough to match the pace of the city's leisurely transit, and is promptly arrested for speeding.