Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1895-07-06
NOT so EXPENSIVE AS YACHTING.
asut the Man Found That Cycling Out
fit Cost Moro Than 500.

fit Cost Moro IMAM SlVo'
eff it weren't for the expense, l think
l should ride a wheel myself, sad
young clubman, into whose ears talk
about bicycling had been dinncd all year.
"There S where You make the biggest
mistake of your life" declared one OF
the listeners. "Why, that's the thing
about bicycling-it's so cheap. You
pay 500 for Your machine, and that
ends it. You get a guarantee for year
and have the cheapest and best 1un OF
your life
"That's what the fellows said when
they got me to buy that yacht, re-
sponded the first speaker obviously IL
was ONLY little boat, and they sad
that after I paid for her the running ex-
penscs would be 4 mere tribe. 1ou Know
how that turned ont. 1t cost me 1000
70 have the bow remodcled. l had to
GET new sails and everything else new.
The skipper robbed me right aud left
and ran the yacht on a rock up the
sound. was buying things and paying
for things week i'll and week out, and
the summers sport cost me just double
what I set out 10 spend. y
"Of course it did, said the friend.
Yachting always does. But bicycling
is different. You couldn't spend $3.50 on
it all summer if you laid awake nights
studying up schemes TO do 1t. There Is
no call to entertain your friends, as
there is when You own yacht. "
There was further discussion, and
itwound up in the purchase of bicycle
bv the man who wanted to economic.
After all, 500 seemed very little for six
months of fun, and so lie was persuaded
that it would be best to buy special
make of wheel, at cost of S125. OF
course he must have bell but that was
only 50, and lantern, and that was 50,
Us cheap ones would leak and WOULDN'T
stay lighted, and cyclometer, which
cost 81. Then came a stand, at 81. 90,
and toe clips, at 81, and lubricating oil
(only % cents), and Illuminating oil
(only 40 cents), and graphite Ga modest
20 cents), lock and chain ISL. 90 was tho
figure for these) and 4 pump (S2. 50(.
When it came to clothing, there was
pretty penny TO pay. a handsome suit
cost $50 10 make. 1t was SO light in color
that mud would ruin it, so the clubman
before long bought a second one for pos
sible rainy weather This one was So.
kangaroo bicycle shoes cost 81, two
pairs of Scotch wooden stockings IS,
two wooden shirts 81, and q sweater IS.
The young man wanted TO go touring,
and So more went for road maps. A
leather luggage carrier, also for trips
out of town, was Sc. So One OF his tires
sprang a leak at the valve and had to be
sent back to the factory, so he bought an
extra one for 500 to use meanwhile.
He had one collision, and came off pretty
luckily, the bill for repairs being only
So 80. 1t cost 81 TO have two punctues
mended. a watch to be fastened to the
handle bar, with frame, was 81. His
first saddle didn't suit, and second one
involved the expenditure of another So.
well, how do you like bicycling?"
some one asked the young man who was
economizing.
"It's great. I hope TO have COM
plete outfit of sundries by next spring if
they don't invent too many new apph-
ances in the meantime. Expensive? Well,
it isn't as cheap as it's cracked up to be,
but it's away behind yachting-several
thousand dollars behind. New York
Tribune.