Bladder wheels
tardington
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"These bladder-wheeled bicycles are diabolical devices of the demon of
darkness. They are contrivances to trap the feet of the unwary and
skin the nose of the innocent. They are full of guile and deceit. When
you think you have broken one to ride and subdued its wild and Satanic
nature, behold it bucketh you off in the road and teareth a great hole
in your pants. Look not on the bike when it bloweth upon its wheels,
for at last it bucketh like a bronco and hurteth like thunder. Who has
skinned legs? Who has a bloody nose? Who has ripped breeches? They
that dally along with the bicycle."
I like this quote.
(apparantly by 'Unidentified Baltimore preacher' in 1896)
(it was in a Josie Dew book... and also in one called 'Merry Wheels and Spokes of Steel. Thanks google!)
darkness. They are contrivances to trap the feet of the unwary and
skin the nose of the innocent. They are full of guile and deceit. When
you think you have broken one to ride and subdued its wild and Satanic
nature, behold it bucketh you off in the road and teareth a great hole
in your pants. Look not on the bike when it bloweth upon its wheels,
for at last it bucketh like a bronco and hurteth like thunder. Who has
skinned legs? Who has a bloody nose? Who has ripped breeches? They
that dally along with the bicycle."
I like this quote.
(apparantly by 'Unidentified Baltimore preacher' in 1896)
(it was in a Josie Dew book... and also in one called 'Merry Wheels and Spokes of Steel. Thanks google!)
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