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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
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ng-coast-ing contests has appeared in France. A steephill is chosen, brakeless wheels are used, andthe rider consuming the greatest amount oftime in descending wins the contest. Re-cently a paper promoted one of these new-fangled downhill events. All contestantswere compelled to ride in a straight line, with-out zigzagging, and of course a competitorputting a foot on the ground was disqualified.The length of the hill was one-quarter of amile, and very steep. There was a large num-ber of competitors, divided into a dozen heats.In one of the heats not a single man suc-ceeded in reaching the bottom of the hill onhis wheel. The successful man allowed the others tocut the pace at the rate of a mile an hour, andat no time did he show any disposition to pushthe field along. The pace told on the leaders,who dropped out, while the winner, by a mag-nificent display of back pedalling, rapidly in-creased the distance that separated him fromthe others. After going half the distance he had the race
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covered the saddle, and from the tool bag, lefthalf-open, roses were escaping. On the clothwere wheels formed of roses, the circles andspokes of gray and black velvet. The candleshad shades made like bicycle lamps, whileribbons of various colors of narrow widthwere caught across the table, laid on thecloth, and suspended over it from the centrebicycle. The menus Avere in the form of bi-cycles made of cardboard. at his mercy, being the only one left in thecontest. The winner covered the quarter of amile in twenty-two minutes, which almosttouches the record of a suburban train. ROOM IN SPAIN. The senoritas of Spain have at last takenup cycling, and it is expected that this inno-vation will, in time, relieve them from theespionage of the ever-present duenna. Amachine called LAmericaine, embellishedwith a spread eagle and the United Statescoat of arms, is being advertised. Thereseems to be room for American cycles inSpain, for Germany is barred out by tariffdiscrimination, and the French

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