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Date: 27 Mar 2007 06:52:03
From: RicodJour
Subject: An 1883 bicycling magazine online
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I know all of you dumbasses don't go anywhere on the bike unless
you're doing 40 kmh with 40 guys trying to hang onto your wheel and
have race numbers stapled to you, but just in case there _are_ some
roses in the sordid little time units you call your lives, I offer
this up:
http://www.aafla.org/index/outing1883.html
It was posted over on rec.bicycle.rides, so I can't take credit.
Call me odd, but I find that infinitely more interesting than any
amount of articles on doping.
R
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Date: 27 Mar 2007 15:19:04
From: SLAVE of THE STATE
Subject: Re: An 1883 bicycling magazine online
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On 27, 11:09 am, Bob Schwartz <bob.schwa...@REMOVEsbcglobal.net >
wrote:
> - Doping pre-dates the bicycle. I'll bet lots of people at 1883
> fred rides were juiced.
No doubt. Nada dope regs of *any* kind till 1914.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act
Mom, what is in that bottle?
It ain't just snake oil.
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Date: 28 Mar 2007 09:31:53
From: Donald Munro
Subject: Re: An 1883 bicycling magazine online
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Bob Schwartz wrote:
>> - Doping pre-dates the bicycle. I'll bet lots of people at 1883
>> fred rides were juiced.
SLAVE of THE STATE wrote:
> No doubt. Nada dope regs of *any* kind till 1914.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Narcotics_Tax_Act
> Mom, what is in that bottle?
> It ain't just snake oil.
Perhaps you should consider selling snake oil to fatty masters to fortify
your capitalist credentials.
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Date: 27 Mar 2007 13:09:00
From: Bob Schwartz
Subject: Re: An 1883 bicycling magazine online
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RicodJour wrote:
> I know all of you dumbasses don't go anywhere on the bike unless
> you're doing 40 kmh with 40 guys trying to hang onto your wheel and
> have race numbers stapled to you, but just in case there _are_ some
> roses in the sordid little time units you call your lives, I offer
> this up:
>
> http://www.aafla.org/index/outing1883.html
>
> It was posted over on rec.bicycle.rides, so I can't take credit.
>
> Call me odd, but I find that infinitely more interesting than any
> amount of articles on doping.
A couple of points:
- We don't staple our numbers, we use spray adhesive.
- The movement to pave everything in the US did not originate
with the auto industry. The first 'good roads' advocates were
cycling organizations, at a time when very few people owned
cars. The Wisconsin League for Good Roads formed in 1895.
Agricultural interests looking for reliable transport of goods
to kets were also proponents of better roads.
- Doping pre-dates the bicycle. I'll bet lots of people at 1883
fred rides were juiced.
Bob Schwartz
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Date: 27 Mar 2007 14:17:30
From: Carl Sundquist
Subject: Re: An 1883 bicycling magazine online
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"Bob Schwartz" <bob.schwartz@REMOVEsbcglobal.net > wrote in message
news:35dOh.1430$H_5.850@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net...
>
> A couple of points:
>
> - We don't staple our numbers, we use spray adhesive.
Just don't fold them.
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Date: 27 Mar 2007 16:37:27
From: Curtis L. Russell
Subject: Re: An 1883 bicycling magazine online
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On Tue, 27 2007 14:17:30 -0500, "Carl Sundquist" <carlsun@cox.net >
wrote:
>
>"Bob Schwartz" <bob.schwartz@REMOVEsbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>news:35dOh.1430$H_5.850@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net...
>>
>> A couple of points:
>>
>> - We don't staple our numbers, we use spray adhesive.
>
>Just don't fold them.
Well, you need to know when to hold them and know when to fold them.
(Here's some good advice for the new racers - Jim Patton likes you to
fold them into real, small squares only big enough to show the number.
Don't tell him I told you.)
Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...
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Date: 27 Mar 2007 15:35:08
From: Curtis L. Russell
Subject: Re: An 1883 bicycling magazine online
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On Tue, 27 2007 13:09:00 -0500, Bob Schwartz
<bob.schwartz@REMOVEsbcglobal.net > wrote:
>RicodJour wrote:
>> I know all of you dumbasses don't go anywhere on the bike unless
>> you're doing 40 kmh with 40 guys trying to hang onto your wheel and
>> have race numbers stapled to you, but just in case there _are_ some
>> roses in the sordid little time units you call your lives, I offer
>> this up:
>>
>> http://www.aafla.org/index/outing1883.html
>>
>> It was posted over on rec.bicycle.rides, so I can't take credit.
>>
>> Call me odd, but I find that infinitely more interesting than any
>> amount of articles on doping.
>
>A couple of points:
>
>- We don't staple our numbers, we use spray adhesive.
>
>- The movement to pave everything in the US did not originate
>with the auto industry. The first 'good roads' advocates were
>cycling organizations, at a time when very few people owned
>cars. The Wisconsin League for Good Roads formed in 1895.
>Agricultural interests looking for reliable transport of goods
>to kets were also proponents of better roads.
>
>- Doping pre-dates the bicycle. I'll bet lots of people at 1883
>fred rides were juiced.
>
>Bob Schwartz
And yet you don't argue the 'sordid little time units you call your
lives'
which would make a great second line to a soap opera theme song - I'm
just not sure about line one yet.
Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...
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Date: 27 Mar 2007 08:56:51
From: RicodJour
Subject: Re: An 1883 bicycling magazine online
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On 27, 11:30 am, "Jim Flom" <jim.flomREM...@telus.net > wrote:
> "RicodJour" <ricodj...@worldemail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:1175004241.261120.274230@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > On 27, 9:52 am, "RicodJour" <ricodj...@worldemail.com> wrote:
> >> I know all of you dumbasses don't go anywhere on the bike unless
> >> you're doing 40 kmh with 40 guys trying to hang onto your wheel and
> >> have race numbers stapled to you, but just in case there _are_ some
> >> roses in the sordid little time units you call your lives, I offer
> >> this up:
>
> >>http://www.aafla.org/index/outing1883.html
>
> >> It was posted over on rec.bicycle.rides, so I can't take credit.
>
> >> Call me odd, but I find that infinitely more interesting than any
> >> amount of articles on doping.
>
> >>From that magazine:
>
> > ROLL ON, SHINING WHEEL! by C. T. Mitchell
> > Tune- "Silver Moon."
>
> A HEADER (?)
>
> He rode a fifty-four-inch wheel,
>
> His form outshone Apollo ;
>
> O'er hill and dale, his steed of steel
>
> No other steed could follow.
>
> At break of day two shell-like ears
>
> Would hear his bugle sounding,
>
> And to the window, swift as light,
>
> Two tiny feet come bounding.
>
> And through the day her mind would dwell
>
> Upon the handsome rider,
>
> And deep, dark eyes look far away
>
> Beyond the book beside her.
>
> And he would ride a dozen miles
>
> Out of his way, returning,
>
> For one swift, stolen glance at her
>
> For whom his heart was yearning.
>
> One fateful day his bugle notes
>
> Had to the window led her;
>
> So swift he flew he took her breath,
>
> And also took a header.
>
> One dainty shriek, and o'er his form,
>
> No introduction needing,
>
> She knelt, and bound her kerchief 'round
>
> His forehead, bruised and bleeding.
>
> He said, of course, " Where am I?" soon,
>
> With voice quite weak and sickly;
>
> He saw who held his aching head,
>
> And came to very quickly.
>
> She asked him in, and he, of course,
>
> Concluded he would tarry ;
>
> They tore my romance all to bits,
>
> And now they're going to ry.
>
> ames Clarence Harvey.
Reminds me of the ploy Coach used to use in Cheers when he wanted to
meet women. Worked like a charm. ;)
R
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Date: 27 Mar 2007 07:24:29
From: RicodJour
Subject: Re: An 1883 bicycling magazine online
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I can see this is going to shoot my day...excellent! ;)
Benjo, you might be interested in this as a research tool. It's not
just antique information. If you do end up using anything you find
through that site, I'd like a footnote. I'm an US 8 1/2 (42).
http://www.aafla.org:8080/verity_templates/jsp/newsearch/search.jsp
R
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Date: 27 Mar 2007 07:04:01
From: RicodJour
Subject: Re: An 1883 bicycling magazine online
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On 27, 9:52 am, "RicodJour" <ricodj...@worldemail.com > wrote:
> I know all of you dumbasses don't go anywhere on the bike unless
> you're doing 40 kmh with 40 guys trying to hang onto your wheel and
> have race numbers stapled to you, but just in case there _are_ some
> roses in the sordid little time units you call your lives, I offer
> this up:
>
> http://www.aafla.org/index/outing1883.html
>
> It was posted over on rec.bicycle.rides, so I can't take credit.
>
> Call me odd, but I find that infinitely more interesting than any
> amount of articles on doping.
>
>From that magazine:
ROLL ON, SHINING WHEEL! by C. T. Mitchell
Tune- "Silver Moon."
As I rise from my couch at the first dawn of day,
E'er the sun earth's beauties reveal;
The fresh morning air drives away all my care,
As I fondly caress my new wheel.
Chorus.
Roll on, shining wheel, bear your master on the road,
With a rapture he cannot conceal;
And never, never once need the jockey's cruel goad,
Urge along, my swiftly gliding wheel.
On the wings of the wind we speed over the plain,
And glide through the forest so still;
The swift-running brook babbles on while I look
At the meadows, the fields, and the hill.
Chorus.
Now we come to the grade up whose steep we must climb,
And bend to the work with good cheer;
And as we reach the top, we do not even stop,
For the slope we can coast without fear.
Chorus.
As the sun mounts the sky with his beautiful gleam,
And the lark from on high trills his lay;
I check my nickelled steed, and return with all speed,
Well prepared for the work of the day.
Chorus.
Oh, happy the man, though his years have declined,
Who the vigor of youth still doth feel;
For many, many days may he gladly sing the praise
Of the hours he hath spent on his wheel.
Chorus.
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Date: 27 Mar 2007 15:30:37
From: Jim Flom
Subject: Re: An 1883 bicycling magazine online
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"RicodJour" <ricodjour@worldemail.com > wrote in message
news:1175004241.261120.274230@n76g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
> On 27, 9:52 am, "RicodJour" <ricodj...@worldemail.com> wrote:
>> I know all of you dumbasses don't go anywhere on the bike unless
>> you're doing 40 kmh with 40 guys trying to hang onto your wheel and
>> have race numbers stapled to you, but just in case there _are_ some
>> roses in the sordid little time units you call your lives, I offer
>> this up:
>>
>> http://www.aafla.org/index/outing1883.html
>>
>> It was posted over on rec.bicycle.rides, so I can't take credit.
>>
>> Call me odd, but I find that infinitely more interesting than any
>> amount of articles on doping.
>>
>
>>From that magazine:
>
> ROLL ON, SHINING WHEEL! by C. T. Mitchell
> Tune- "Silver Moon."
>
A HEADER (?)
He rode a fifty-four-inch wheel,
His form outshone Apollo ;
O'er hill and dale, his steed of steel
No other steed could follow.
At break of day two shell-like ears
Would hear his bugle sounding,
And to the window, swift as light,
Two tiny feet come bounding.
And through the day her mind would dwell
Upon the handsome rider,
And deep, dark eyes look far away
Beyond the book beside her.
And he would ride a dozen miles
Out of his way, returning,
For one swift, stolen glance at her
For whom his heart was yearning.
One fateful day his bugle notes
Had to the window led her;
So swift he flew he took her breath,
And also took a header.
One dainty shriek, and o'er his form,
No introduction needing,
She knelt, and bound her kerchief 'round
His forehead, bruised and bleeding.
He said, of course, " Where am I?" soon,
With voice quite weak and sickly;
He saw who held his aching head,
And came to very quickly.
She asked him in, and he, of course,
Concluded he would tarry ;
They tore my romance all to bits,
And now they're going to ry.
ames Clarence Harvey.
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