Word: riders
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been decided that the Bicycle Club uniform shall be gray jacket, cap, and knickerbockers, color of stockings at option of rider. New members may join the club, at 16 Little's Block. Members may obtain their keys to the rooms at Bartlett...
...Bicycle Club will be interested to know that Scribner's is to have a paper upon the sport, by the well-known rider and writer, Mr. Charles E. Pratt...
...voted that each member should report at regular intervals the runs made by him, for the information of the other members of the club. This will doubtless prove a great convenience, as it will allow each rider to keep himself informed about the condition of the roads. The meeting broke up about eight o'clock, subject to the call of the officers...
...college paper nor every intelligent student that moulds the opinion of the college; the influential person is he who is called the "popular man." Our college life is like a circus, - a modern circus with many horses and several clowns. The popular man is the dazzling bareback rider; the rest of us are the horses and the clowns. Round and round walk the clowns, - round and round the ring go the horses, - up in the air goes the rider. Applause...
...remember how soon the velocipede fever died out in this country; but in England and France it had a different fate. First the driving-wheel was enlarged, and the rear wheel reduced, by which alterations not only greater speed was gained, but the rider was so placed as to expend his energy to the best advantage, viz. directly over, instead of behind the axis of power. The next step was to substitute iron and steel for wood, producing a machine of more elegant appearance and greater strength...