Word: bike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They'll be off and running at 10:30 Sunday morning in their traditional big bike race to Wellesley. Sponsored by the Harvard Outing Club the annual classic is open to all members of the University...
...American class which gets a five minute handicap includes bikes with coaster brakes and without gear shifts. Starting two and a half minutes before the Racers the touring class covers cycles with gears and handbrakes, but with no toe clips dropped bars external gears or super thin tires any of which will put a bike into the racing class...
Wellesley is ideal for the man on the bike, even on days when the track isn't open and the stakes are only a date by the lake. Weekend outings are easy to combine, and Youth Hostles offer cheap and ruddy lodging...
Instead of dawdling at bistros and helping with the haying, Francois takes on a little wine and goes "all American." Neither snow, nor rain, nor the vicissitudes thrown in his path by the scenarists stay him from his jet-propelled rounds. Astride his ramshackle bike, leather case flying in the breeze, he whizzes past bicycle road racers and delivers mail down wells, on farmers' pitchforks and in threshing machines-when he is not tangling with wasps, pigs and flagpoles. The wine finally wears off, the fair departs and village and postman go back to a more tranquil tempo. "News...
...discovered that the chain binding the black Raleigh bike to a rack in Moors Hall basement had been sawed through. The janitor informed her that the bike had been confiscated, along with several other unclaimed ones stored in the basement and had been auctioned off in Cabot Hall November...