The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-07

a red-haired lady your rim viii split un-
less you say "cajandrum" and hold up
5. The rider who eUpectorates tobacco
juice on the track Will lose a spoke
Q. II you take your machine 10 the re-
par shop IL IS a sign that you viii not
p1y tnaf new suit Of clothes
I Kicking the man who asks the make
OF your wheel IS a sign Of high h0uOrs
ana riches within the year
3 Lending the wheel is a sign OF the
double donkey.
9. To attempt 10 hold up a g75-pound
woman learning 10 ride is a sign of a
soft spot.
These predictions will be bound in pam
pnlet form. and trust the day is not far
dlslant when they viii be found pasted
in the hat Of every reputable wheelman.
Louisville Times.
The growth Of cycling in Europe is in
&T--te1led by me increase Of wheeling in
In the city. At the present time there
are over 10000
Squaring Things.-Bixby (verv near
sighted)--WhO's that dumpy fright COM
ing up the road on the wneel2
Stinchcomb-Thats my wife.
blNby-N-no, / don't mean that one. L
mean the grand guy with the bologna
boomers.
sunchcomb-Thats your wife-Cleve-
land Plain Dealer.
A Lyons. France. cyclist. named. Ga
dertaken to ride round the coping stone
or a house in the course Of construction.
successfully accomplished his feat in the
presence OF large gathering. The cop
ing stone is barely two feet wide, and is
about nifty feet from the ground.
NJ. Germaux. the chief bicycle riding in
structOr of Paris. who is known as Maui
rice, in an interview, gives some interest
ing talk on the proper way to ride a
wheel. Many riders, he said, ride as if
their lives depended on the handle bar.
Don't do 1t, ne said The fault of
Observation-Disclosures of riders lies in not
understanding the function of the handle
bar
What does it do? Very little for BIZ
cyclist who knows anything about riding
II has its uses, but those only who have
learned properly in a school seem to know
what those uses are. Did you ever learn
10 ride horse in riding SCHOOL,"
" cry well; do you remember If you were
MADE TO ride without the stirrups?"
Very well, then, you know something
about the use of riding without the handle
bar When you can do without it you be-
gin to learn how to use it, Never before.
But come along inside.
Mount" said the head teacher.
Hands touching lightly on the bar,
heels slightly out and toes in and inclined
downward-sit well back and with the
pan OF the foot on the pedal. directing the
motion from the ankles-plenty of ankle
play-and go as fast as you like.
NOW advance your hands toward the
as to touch each other, thumb to thumb
keep on like that for twenty minutes
Now" at length cried the teacher "let
go your hands and pedal forward-not as
If you were driving nails with your feet
like a carpenter with a hammer, but as If
you were turning a coffee mill-always
with a forward movement, and pedal fast
and evenly"
Two lessons are necessary inside, as a
rule" said Maurice, land a third lesson
on the road, and any one can ride without
touching the handle bar, but you must
continue TO ride in that way whenever
you get a good level road before you, for
il keeps you from falling into bad riding
habits that fatigue and in some cases in
jure the rider, and which always look bad
and ungraceful
ITO ride without touching the handle bar
makes you rely on the pedal. Lay it down
as principle that the beginning and end
of good bicycling is to rely on the pedal.
Your foot must feel the pedal as much
as your rein a horses mouth when you
are riding horseback. Cultivate a sensi-
tive foot for the foot should hold the
pedal in the same way that your hand
would if it was on the metal-or, to put il
stronger-you should try to clutch the
pedal with the foot like a parrot elings
to his perch.