Newspaper cycling stories from around the world (France and England) ... Paris ... The last Paris sensation is a velocipede wedding, twenty couples going to one on double velocipedes. They went to the Bois de Boulogne, headed by a mounted fiddler, and, after enjoying themselves, filed away to a restaurant, and wheeled home at night, … Continue reading This Day in Cycling History: Trois Weddings and A Funeral (1876, 1892)
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Are You and Your Significant Other Cycling Compatible?
I love to ride and am a bit of a cycling fanatic. Susan? Not so much. And less and less as the years go by. This makes us a cycling incompatible couple. And yet, somehow, despite this huge hurdle, we’ve been able to stay happily married for 27 years. At least I think we’re happily married. … Continue reading Are You and Your Significant Other Cycling Compatible?
This Day In Cycling History: The Funniest Completely True Bicycle Story Ever (Really!)
The best tooth pulling story comes from Ocean Park and involves two boys and a bicycle. This is the start of a November 25, 1912 story in The Republic (Columbus, Indiana) newspaper about what just might be the funniest bicycle story ever! Think I'm exaggerating? Keep reading ... Roy Fosdick, nine years old, told his … Continue reading This Day In Cycling History: The Funniest Completely True Bicycle Story Ever (Really!)
My Favorite Rides (#2): The Gorges de la Nesque, with Wild Boar & Sheep
Why do those guys up there on the ridge have guns - really big guns? Should I be worried? Scared? I was in the midst of one of my all-time favorite rides – the Gorges de la Nesque in Provence – and, it was hunting season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rjGWQse-0o Wild boar hunting season. It seems wild boar … Continue reading My Favorite Rides (#2): The Gorges de la Nesque, with Wild Boar & Sheep
This Day In Cycling History: 1892, 1903, 1918, 1930 & 1946
A Minneapolis congregation is terribly perplexed over the behavior of its pastor who rode to church Sunday morning on a bicycle. The minister was right. There is no more harm riding to church on a bicycle than to use a carriage or walk The St. Helena Star, California … 1892 *** Random historic cycling photo! … Continue reading This Day In Cycling History: 1892, 1903, 1918, 1930 & 1946
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