Fancy Cycling
Subtitle: Trick Riding for Amateurs
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Old House Books
Published: 10 Jun 2013
Place of publication: Oxford, United Kingdom; New York, United States of America
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781908402714
Description: By 1901, when this book first free-wheeled spectacularly into sight, cycling was well established both as leisure pastime and method of getting about. Yet as a forum for the display of acrobatic prowess its potential had been left largely unmined – a lack that this book swiftly and with some style swooped in to supply. It shows straight-faced paragons of Edwardian society in a variety of impressive and unlikely vehicular arrangements. Fearlessly, they demonstrate the possibility of picking up a handkerchief without dismounting, of riding backwards while seated on the handlebar, and of 'standing on saddle, hands off!' They even make perfectly clear that, for two able cyclists with the inclination and a length of wooden pole, it was quite possible to bear aloft a clown while mounted.
Notes: Originally published in 1901 by Sands & Company.
B/W illustrations.