The Bearings, Vol 5, No 4
Articles in this issue
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Observation that a rider thrown from his wheel needs no Delsarte system to express his emotions — the gestures speak for themselves.
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Racer explains he does not need a gymnasium because winding forty clocks and moving six pianos won as prizes provides all the winter exercise he needs.
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A museum exhibit of wheel-paper editors not fighting each other is presented as the rarest curiosity ever seen.
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A professional racer arrives in Hades unfazed because years of roasting by the racing press had already acclimatized him to the heat.
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Satirical sketch of a fervent amateur official who watches professional races through the large end of his opera glasses to keep the pros at a safe moral distance.
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Three years ago a man had no money, opened a wheel agency, and today is worth a million — turns out he married the manufacturer's only daughter.
- Ireland's Lesson in Journalistic Ethics
Continued praise for the Irish Cyclist's practice of crediting sources, contrasted with the common English cycling-paper habit of lifting material without acknowledgment.
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Witty allegorical gossip among bicycle parts about the brass in the air pump's character.