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August 22, 2008 at 5:17 pm
John Kendrick Bang wrote a one act farce called The Bicyclers (1894)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11759
you MUST read it, a lot of the humor depends on the Cycling ’style’ you are promoting.
August 22, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Brilliant! I love it, thanks for submitting-I especially like the dig at short pants and golf socks.
August 25, 2008 at 8:00 pm
If you like that you will love this:
Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome (1914) a cycling sequel to Jerome’s Three Men on a Boat, the funniest book in the English language.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2183/2183-h/2183-h.htm%20
The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll by H.G. Wells (1896)
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/wchnc10.txt
Taming the Bicycle by Mark Twain
http://www.online-literature.com/twain/1323/
needless to say, these are all better in print as they are old and small and can fit nicely in a pannier.
August 28, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Why stop there?
Across Asia on a Bicycle: The Journey of Two American Students from Constantinople to Peking in 1890 (1894)
September 3, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Sir:
Please feel at liberty to avail yourself of my photos of a Scottish cycling gentleman here: http://tinyurl.com/6fa4lw. If any of these, as our American Cousins say, “grab you”, do not hesitate to ask & I will submit some for your approval.
Your most humble servant (etc., etc)
da’Square Wheelman