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Old 07-23-13, 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Bishbike
Lot's of riding lately, but been lazy about posting.

Got in a 45 mile ride today. Belmont to Strawberry Hill loop and back. Great evening for a ride! Finally getting the fit dialed in on the new bike.

Jim M., I am digging that Centurion!
Bishbike, sounds like a great ride and getting dialed in is a nice feeling.

Boston seems to have exclaimed the wonders of bike riding for some time; really exclaimed.

David Herlihy's "Bicycle, The History" published by Yale University Press noted on page 110 " ....a Boston writer praised the vehicle for breaking the fearful habit of joining drinking with every amusement.... and another suggested that the bicycle would take men away from the gambling rooms and rum shops, out into God's light and sunshine and Susan B. Anthony envisioned a graceful, healthy and useful exercise for all women."

The June, 1883 edition of The Wheelmen, Vol. ll, No.3 began a report from The Massachusetts Bicycle Club with " All who joy would win must share it; happiness was born a twin" and began their report with, "The fortunate man who rode the first bicycle must have felt a thrill of joy at the new sensation which even we who ride can hardly realize: but to offset this, he must have had a lonely time of it until the second one was made. Adam could scarcely have experienced a greater joy when he beheld what had produced from his missing rib, than did this first wheelman when a companion appeared at his side; and we may be pretty sure that the two very soon began to talk up the formation of a club. They "who joy would win" upon a bicycle must indeed "share it" with some other riders...."

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