The Bearings, Vol 5, No 23
Articles in this issue
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Comic hyperbole about an Oregon cow so affronted by a cyclist in blue tights with pink handle-bar ribbons that she kicked over the bucket, jumped fences, and swallowed her own tail.
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Classroom joke in which a boy decides that when Jesus told Peter he would catch men, he meant Peter was going to become a bicycle dealer.
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A bicycle thief who claims he only took it as a joke is sentenced to six months for carrying the joke as far as a pawn shop.
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Brief item on the reported usefulness of vinegar in removing oil and dust from bearing boxes.
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A customer objects to a wheel because the tires are too large; the salesman assures him that if he buys and rides it much, that objection will gradually wear away.
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Gentle comic verse wishing a tire many years of use with very few punctures.
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Correction of the claim that wheelwomen like to see themselves in print — it is silks and satins they want, not print.
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A celestial dialogue in which the Recording Angel challenges Gabriel's claim to know what hustling is, noting that keeping track of all the lies amateur racing men tell about their expenses is a far harder job.
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Observation that cycling writers always claim to know what they would have done in a racer's place, but the racing man himself never quite believes it.