Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and Techniques of Bicycle Riding
    The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and Techniques of Bicycle Riding
    The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and Techniques of Bicycle Riding
    Ebook85 pages51 minutes

    The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and Techniques of Bicycle Riding

    By Read Books Ltd.

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection of classic magazines we have compiled a series of informative publications on the subject of sport. The titles in this range include 'The Sport of Rifle Shooting,' 'A Traditional Guide to Swimming and Diving,' 'The Great Sport of Rowing,' and many more. Each publication has been professionally curated and includes all details on the original source material. This particular instalment, 'The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling', contains information on the history and techniques of bicycle riding. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781473359147
    The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and Techniques of Bicycle Riding

    Related to The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and Techniques of Bicycle Riding

    Related ebooks

    Special Interest Travel For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Cycling Through Time

      Mar 20, 2019

      Cycling Through Time
      3 min read

    • Article

      Special Selection

      Oct 8, 2020

      An art exhibition with a difference will hit Brisbane this November, when ‘The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire’ opens at the Queensland capital’s Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). Recognising the motorcycle as a design object, The Motorcycle: Design, Art

      8 min read

    • Article

      RECOMMENDED READ: Greasing The Wheels

      Aug 16, 2022

      AS WITH WHEELED suitcases, it’s perhaps surprising that bicycles, with their simple design, didn’t become part of human life sooner. After various primitive 19th-century versions had some limited appeal, it was only in the 1890s that the coming of th

      3 min read

    • Article

      Rough Riders

      Jul 14, 2021

      Rough Riders
      2 min read

    • Article

      Wheels Of War

      Jul 7, 2020

      Wheels Of War
      10 min read

    • Article

      A Bit On The Side

      Oct 23, 2023

      A Bit On The Side
      9 min read

    • Article

      A Sirrus Case Of Déjà Vu

      Apr 20, 2023

      A Sirrus Case Of Déjà Vu
      5 min read

    • Article

      READER’S DIGEST RECOMMENDED READ: An Olympian Read

      Jan 18, 2022

      IN AROUND 400 BC, the Greek physician Hippocrates (aka “the Father of Medicine”) wrote that, “Eating alone will not keep a man well; he must also take exercise.” This was a fact well understood in Ancient Greece. Every town had at least one gymnasium

      3 min read

    • Article

      Wheels of Fortune

      Feb 16, 2021

      Wheels of Fortune
      2 min read

    • Article

      No, It’s A Cyclecar!

      Mar 4, 2020

      No, It’s A Cyclecar!
      9 min read

    • Article

      Ageof Innovation

      Dec 1, 2021

      Ageof Innovation
      6 min read

    • Article

      Pub Talk

      Feb 2, 2019

      It was Christmas morning, so fate decreed that PUB was back in AJS ‘mediaeval’ Mary’s stable in the Welsh Marches, working on the Rex-Acme again as in 2017 (RC readers, especially those outside the UK, can have fun trying to find an exact definition

      7 min read

    • Article

      High To Hell

      Nov 1, 2017

      High To Hell
      3 min read

    • Article

      Transport Through The Ages

      Jan 24, 2020

      BEFORE we developed means of transport, our feet were the only way to get anywhere. Luckily, around 6 000 years ago humans domesticated animals such as donkeys, horses and camels and began using them to transport goods and people. Let’s find out how

      4 min read

    • Article

      How The Wheel Turns

      Sep 17, 2021

      THE invention of the wheel was crucial to the development of humankind. Historians have worked out that it happened in Mesopotamia about 6 500 years ago during the Copper Age (4500-3300 BC), a period when humans developed tools and weapons from coppe

      4 min read

    • Article

      Spokes

      Sep 1, 2023

      Spokes
      1 min read

    • Article

      Rare Sight

      May 5, 2021

      Rare Sight
      6 min read

    • Article

      Reading And Watching

      Aug 2, 2023

      By Philip Dalling ISBN 978-0-85704-361-0 Published by Hasgrove 144 pages hardback Available from The Pitstop Bookshop Ph: 1800 622 422 Email: pitstop@woodslane.com.au Web: www.pitstop.net.au Item Code: 61883 RRP: $37.46 (was $49.95) Author Philip Dal

      3 min read

    • Article

      Age Of Innovation

      Feb 2, 2022

      Age Of Innovation
      6 min read

    • Article

      From Dust It Did Rise

      Nov 24, 2023

      From Dust It Did Rise
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Westerners

      Oct 20, 2020

      The Westerners
      6 min read

    • Article

      Dayton Roadmaster

      Aug 17, 2023

      Dayton Roadmaster
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Red Dust Devil Lake Perkolilli WA

      Jan 8, 2020

      The bike is pitching and moving about over the ruts and small corrugations as you round the sweeping bend and there is nothing but red dust ahead. Coming out of the bend, the corrugations ease and the track becomes smoother. You know how to read the

      7 min read

    • Article

      Works Of Art

      Apr 7, 2021

      Works Of Art
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Weekend In Paradise!

      May 3, 2023

      A Weekend In Paradise!
      4 min read

    • Article

      100 years OF BOATS

      Jul 18, 2017

      100 years OF BOATS
      10 min read

    • Article

      Stuff Of legends

      Jun 15, 2022

      Stuff Of legends
      7 min read

    • Article

      Mtb Milestones

      Jul 6, 2023

      Mtb Milestones
      15 min read

    Reviews for The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and Techniques of Bicycle Riding

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and Techniques of Bicycle Riding - Read Books Ltd.

      THE PARLIAMENT OF CYCLING

      BY S. R. NOBLE

      (SECRETARY OF THE N.C.U.)

      CYCLISTS were at first looked upon with distrust, if not with positive dislike. In that brief sentence lies the whole secret of the inception of the National Cyclists’ Union, a body which has not inaptly been styled the Jockey Club of cycling.

      HOW THE UNION WAS FORMED

      During the early seventies, and, indeed, for a considerable period later, the man who bestrode a bicycle was regarded by pedestrians and horsey men alike as a species of Ishmaelite, and rustic humour often resolved itself into the tangible and unpleasant form of ’eaving ’arf a brick at him, while practical jokers on the box-seats of stage coaches not infrequently enlivened their journeys by fishing for, or lassoing, any unfortunate knights of the wheel they might meet in their way. It was the playfulness of the driver of the St. Albans coach and other incidents of a similar nature, and the necessity for regulating the new sport of cycle racing, that ultimately gave rise to an agitation in the cycling and general press, which later bore fruit in the formation of an organisation called the Bicycle Union. In March, 1877, a meeting of cyclists was held at the headquarters of the Temple Bicycle Club, then one of the most prominent metropolitan cycling clubs, and at a subsequent meeting of delegates from various clubs throughout the country a sub-committee was selected to draft a constitution and a code of rules and regulations. The University cycling clubs enthusiastically threw in their lot with their fellow-wheelmen, and in the early part of the following year a basis of representation was agreed upon, and a constitution confirmed. The original principles then promulgated remain to-day, with a few necessary additions and alterations, still the objects of the union. A number of tricyclists, however, resented the narrowing of the title to bicycles, and a little later, the cumbrous appellation of Bicycle Union with which is incorporated the Tricycle Association was adopted, but, thanks mainly to the efforts of Mr. Robert Todd, then honorary secretary to the Union, the happy and comprehensive title of National Cyclists’ Union was adopted in

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1