The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1895-02-22
Bicycle Riding.

Everybody Is talking about bicycle
riding. 1t is great theme nowadays.
An Albany man has handed ,lie DEMO-
cRAr the following ideas Of New Jersey
jeweier on the subject:
''Let US take" he writes. ''the yoang
man who is moderately stout ana strong,
and who is not too heavily worksd-per
haps too lightly He may be a book
keeper or sstch rePairer. lie locks
pretty good. has good appetite and no
organic disease, yet his dyspepiic life is
misery TO him. l advise such one
to get bicycle as fast as he can, to ride
elsily at first and gradually increase the
speed. There are dissases-ehronic cat
arrh for which bicycle riding
| will benefit, but precautions against get
ting cold after the exercise must always
be taken. The wheel is excellent for in
| digestion, sluggish liver. for producing
healthy action Of tbe urinary organs, and
for purifying he blood II is excellent
for the mind also, as it relieves the
blood. 1t is excellent for the mind also,
as 1t relieves the sameness OF store rou-
tine, and pnts the country with its de-
lights within easy reach.
''Let US take the man who is advanced
in years, who has sat at the bench it
may be fifteen years; or as 10 my own
case, forty years. He gradually gets
stiffened up, and even medicine fails In
the end 10 remove 'tha. tired feeling
yet doctors proclaim the absence OF any
organic disease. This man needs a
wheel 10 rouse up his stagnant body, to
make his blood flow quicker, 10 force
the poisonous waste through the pores.
After time his work will again become
a pleasure to him, and he will feel as if
be was twenty years younger. To get
the maximum benefit, the bicycle rider
should use meat diet largely ,masticate
his food we'll, abstain from liquids at
meals, and iutoxicants aIways-barring
possibly glass OF port wine on occas-
ions. Cold drinks in quantity while
riding are very injurious, and no riding
mornings snould be done with an empty
stomach.
The selection of wheel il an easy
matter nowadays, so much progress has
been made in bicycle manufacture. Too
light wheel is as much to be avoided
as too heavy one, as the danger OF col
lapse on bad roads is too great. In fact
lightness has been overdone. Racing
wheels nave no place on country mud
roads or on cobble-stone pavements. For
the latter five or elk pounds more
weigh ht are required. Do not select a
wheel because of its cheapness, and do
be deceived by glitter in finish. The '94 |
patterns were good, but it seems to me |
too little attention has been paid TO the |
running gear. Tile boxes holding the |
balls should be as hard as possible to |
better resist friction. Cutting by the
balls creates much friction, and makes
the wheel run heavy. The cones should |
be as hard az possible, too, yet perfectly
true. The spfocket wheels ] find TOO J
so.t. They easily sucsnmb to friction.
The chains, too, should be harder as
they stretch aud cause noise on the
sprocket wheel teeth. These things
remedied and thirty or twenty-eight
pound wheel wouid run almost as easily
as twenty pound on,, aud be much
safer.
"Only those who lave experienced il
can realize how much Of life.giver the
bicycle is, and as one OF those benefited,
| feel my friendly advice will be apprs-
ciated."