The Bearings, Vol 5, No 2
Articles in this issue
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Comic exchange between an impertinent bicycle shop clerk and a customer who walks out in annoyance without ever asking for anything.
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Joke about a husband who learns an eighty-year-old man has just ridden a hundred miles, and remarks it was about time if he ever intended to.
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Deadpan advice that when descending a hill without brakes, one should put one's best foot backward.
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Comic dialogue between a cycling uniform and benzine about which is stronger, played as a boxing match.
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Satirical afterlife sketch in which Satan is warned to break the news gently to Ananias that a writer of wheel advertisements is arriving.
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Wheelman insists he has indeed experienced the depths of human misery — riding a pneumatic over a horseshoe nail and walking ten miles to a station.
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Practical tip from an experienced rider to a novice about how to talk to a girl who cannot ride a wheel, suggesting to compliment her by criticizing every other woman's riding.
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Satirical account of a fashionable doctor who prescribes an elaborate dietary routine that is really just milk with cranberries, for which he charges fifty dollars.