The Bearings, Vol 5, No 26
Articles in this issue
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Brief satirical note about a man who is simultaneously a 'professional amateur' — each label canceling the other.
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Satirical complaint that cycling writers in summer fill their columns with 'don'ts,' telling wheelmen not to do anything they actually want to do.
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Verse mocking the woman cyclist in bifurcated skirt and suspenders, so mannishly dressed that even a more-than-human observer cannot tell her sex.
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A man going to Africa to learn the monkey language prompts speculation that we might then interview the monkey wrench and get its opinion of manufacturers who make every bolt on a wheel a different size.
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Observation that some racing men in open races resemble an hourglass: the more time given them, the less sand they seem to have.
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Satirical explanation of why an anti-cycling farmer was elected road supervisor: he was 'good road timber' — couldn't earn a living otherwise, distrusted wheelmen, and nobody else wanted the job.
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A race committee declines a contribution from the village sexton: an order good for one grave dug within the year.
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Uncle Mose explains he is joining the League of American Wheelmen not because he rides, but to get a share of the whitewashing jobs the Racing Board hands out every year.
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A professor asks what an unknown quantity is; the racer replies it is what you get when you buy a wheel guaranteed not to exceed the weight claimed in the catalogue.