The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-10
OF The NEW WINTER SPORT:
Bicycle Skating Will Take the Place Of
Other Jack Frost Games.
THIS is WHAT THG EXPERTS SAY.
You Can Go sixteen Miles an Houe
without Tiring Yourself-Far
Ahead OF snow
Shoes.

When the ground gets too frozen for h.
cycle riding there IS going 20 be bicycle
skating. The bicycle skate IS a new inn
plcment lately put on the market. II -
ike the roller skate, but the lollerS are
LARGER, and they are shaped SO that they
extend back OF the heel and front OF tho
toe. The foot is upon 4 steel support IN
0f fSssain the TO rU skaic OK roller skates
easy compared 10 skating on bicycle
skates. A bicycle skater mas 10 30 70
school 70 learn how 10 manage her
skates. just as she once went 10 the aead-
CmY 10 learn how TO ride her wheel. With
roller skates any amateur could manage
well enough.
The difficulty In bicycle skating is in the
balancing. When YOU first step on your
bicycle skates you ind you cannot stand
up; you cannot really stand on them any
way. You must keep going an the ume
just like the bicycle. Trick skaters can
stand still, but IL Is an achievement. At-
ter a little practice you md that you
learn how 20 hold your feet and ankles;
and then the FIRST thing you know you
me ADVANTAGE OF The bicycle skate over
The old roller skate IS great. II takes you
along az the rate of hfteen miles an hour.
and the poorest skater can 90 ave miles
an hour. The wheels are large enough to
cover great deal OF ground in a little
while. and each time YOU strike out with
the foot YOU are borne along from eight 10
twelve feet before YOU can stop yourself.
The trick Is 10 skate on one foot as
Tar as YOU can. Then strike out With the
other, going a long distance on that one;
and SO on. You keep on striking out alter
nately right and LETT. holding out as long
as you can each time, until you have
covered the ground. In skating on the
leo you do not try TO do this. Your
skates travel over only two or three feet
OF ice at a time. but with the bicycle
skate you are carried a long distance, anf
niTNlle
The roller skates are crude things al
best, although they are now coming N
again. but the bicycle skate has little
pneumatic tire upon IL Just like the wheel
OF bicycle. and like the wheel Il Is la
bic TO punCture and must be pumped up
now and then. They do make these tires
Of solid rubber. but they are apt 20 DO
heavy, so that tho genuine bicycle skater
likes the hollow tube the best
The kind Of shoe 10 wear with this Is
important. Women do not like 20 give az
their French heel shoes, even I'm tho inc
terests OF skating, aud especially wheI
the sport shows Off tho foot 10 such adj
vantage. Therefore. they are using
corked solo with n rather high heel upon
which the bicycle skate Is oamped
There Is small cleat that catches thu
sole under the nstep and high one that
clamps on the heel OF the SHOE This
holds the foot secure.
Men skate on the bicycle skate as wei
az women and for ,Oasting there Is not
out with ono foot and when you get y
good momentum you brig the other foot
uD 10 &c. just as when sliding along slip
perry street, and then you coast down 20
tho foot of the NIL, guiding yourself by
turning your feet the WY you want 10 go.
Bicycle skating can be enjoyed on any
kind OF frozen ground. IL does not work
well Ia soft earth but h at its best on ico
or IN light snow. The bicycle skate does
not 60 well up a hill. where IL is as hard
work as. wheeling a bicycle up but on 4
Lowell u is very fine. and going down hill
IL IS tho grandest sport Ina the world.
These skates threaten 20 take the place
OF the regular ice skate. though skateri
say this Is impossible but the fact that
the bicycle skate can go either ashore ~
on Ice insures IT'S popularity for several
The dress Of a bicycle skater should bs
warm, ana there come some eiderdOwn
patterns that are very fine for this. Ihoy
are not very heavy and they have little
figure in them which makes them a very
good dress goods. In Canada and where
they have ice carnlVals. they wear this
kind OF dress a good deal and they also
have "A blanket goods which Is ideal for
skating. Tho sweater is the popular gar
ment for mems wear ana as men are go
ing bicycle skating this winter the sweat
or promises 10 be as fashionable as it IS
comfortable
Bicycle skating comes In with tho gath
erng Of autumn leaves JUST fancy skat-
ing out to your favorlte old stretch ~
woods and wheeling over the dead leaves
until you come 10 "a tree brilliant With TO-
llgo That is what the bicycle skaters
are doing and IL is the thing that VIII
bring the bicycle skate rapidly 10 tho
front You must learn bow 10 balance
yourself FIRST ana for this Won viii need
a good two weeks practice. Tile cost IS
so at the highest