Fancy Cycling, 1901: An Edwardian Guide - Hardcover

Marks, Isabel

 
9781908402714: Fancy Cycling, 1901: An Edwardian Guide
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1908402717 ISBN 13: 9781908402714
Verlag: Old House Books, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

By 1901, when this book first free-wheeled spectacularly into sight, cycling was well established both as leisure pastime and method of getting about. Yet as a forum for the display of acrobatic prowess its potential had been left largely unmined - a lack that this book swiftly and with some style swooped in to supply. It shows straight-faced paragons of Edwardian society in a variety of impressive and unlikely vehicular arrangements. Fearlessly, they demonstrate the possibility of picking up a handkerchief without dismounting, of riding backwards while seated on the handlebar, and of 'standing on saddle, hands off!' They even make perfectly clear that, for two able cyclists with the inclination and a length of wooden pole, it was quite possible to bear aloft a clown while mounted.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Isabel Marks

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In the following pages it will be my humble endeavour to give an account of the many graceful, daring, and altogether fascinating feats which may be accomplished by any rider possessed of an ordinary amount of nerve, the virtue of determination, and a few spare moments secure from the rude intrusion of unsympathizing spectators.

When watching the stream of cyclists amidst the sea of vehicles and horses it is easy to distinguish between the ordinary rider and the expert. These latter may be known by the accuracy of their serpentine curves amidst the openings out of, meeting, and overtaking traffic; by their correct steering and, by the coolness with which, further progress being temporarily barred, the front wheel is right-angled, and a stationary balance maintained.

May my insignificant efforts be of some little service to the merry band of tricksters; may the track of their wheels be ever increasingly present in the land.

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Verlag
Old House Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1908402717
ISBN 13 
9781908402714
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
116
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