The Bearings, Vol 5, No 3
Articles in this issue
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Mock prescription for dealing with dogs that attack cyclists: cold lead applied internally to the dog's head, guaranteed effective or money refunded.
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Pun-driven exchange in which a young lady confuses Pope's Essay on Man with a Pope bicycle calendar, finding the calendar a 'daisy.'
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Joke about a rider refusing to replace a worn tire on the grounds that what remains is 'being bound over to keep the piece.'
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Short comic verse expressing the racing man's perpetual cry for cash prizes rather than amateur trophies.
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Racing manager reveals he convinced a crack rider to enter the club's races through mild 'purse-weigh-sion' with his trainer — a pun on persuasion.
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Allegorical dialogue among bicycle parts — wheel, brake, monkey wrench, and pneumatic tire — complaining about their treatment in a shop.
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Satirical piece about a temperance paper's article on good roads being misread by patients at a Dwight, Illinois sanitarium as an endorsement of larger drink loads.
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Editorial defense of the Irish Cyclist's practice of crediting sources when quoting, in contrast to English cycling papers that lift material without acknowledgment.