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Title: The Wheel and cycling trade review
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Cycling Bicycles Cyclists
Publisher: New York : Wheel and Cycling Trade Review
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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n two weeks after he purchasedit and trade it off for another make and payme a nice cash difference. It is possible that that fellow I just land-ed will get through the first year with hiswheel without wishing that he had boughtanother, but I am pretty confident that hewill come back to me within two months andbegin negotiations looking to the purchaseof some other make. After he has had thesecond wheel a while he will be trading fora third, and it is not at all improbable thatwithin the next three years he will own halfa dozen wheels, and eventually come backto the make that he purchased first. That isnot in the least uncommon. It is like thecharacteristics of the small boy who swapsjackknives, or the trait for horse trading thatseems to run through every mans character,whether they be called cranks or not. TWO YEARS AND FOUR HUNDRED. A Paris cocher—thats French for cab-driver—has been given a sentence of twoyears in prison, plus a $400 fine, for runningdown two wheelmen, 896. 43
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November 13, AS AN ECONOMY. How the Agent Caused the Dodger to Openly Face the Cycle Riding Question. lie had fought ag-ainst and talked againstcycling as long as he could. When first hebegan he had a numerous audience of as-senting friends, taut one by one they had them-selves bought wheels, and when they hadlearned the enjoyment thereof no longer list-(ened to or applauded the pessimistic theoriesof their friend. He theorized; they knew. Finally, alone in his anti-wheel ideas, for-saken and laughed at by his former compan-ions, he, too, determined to buy a bicycle. Tosalve his soul for the arguments he time andtime again had brought to hear against thebicycle, yet lacking the courage to confess hehad been mistaken in his former dislike to themachine, he hid behind the often used excuseof his tribe and declared he was taking tocycling for Economys sake—to save money,bless you! The dealer had seen a lot of his kind andwas determined that he should not skulk be-hind any such threadba

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