SHOULD WOMEN CYCLE ?
" Some people have questioned," writes a lady, "whether cycling is healthy for women ; but their doubts are based on ignorance. In the first place the work is not so hard as it looks. Given a good road and no head-wind, a bicycle, after a certain point, goes almost by itself. Even hill-climbing, when you understand how to take your hill, need not mean overexertion.
11 If the road is muddy or sandy, then you must exert yourself ; but the labour is nothing compared to that of dancing all night or of shopping all day. I have cycled from one end of England to the other ; I have ridden on a tandem tricycle from Florence to Rome, and from Calais to Geneva; on a safety bicycle from Cologne to Vienna and all through the mountains of Transylvania, and I flatter myself there are few women healthier or stronger than I. • " Afl for the pleasure cycling gives, it cannot be exaggerated. I know of nothing like it. That sense of rapid motion over a good hard road in the clear fresh air ii due to ' the mild joys of living,' and the very work adds to your enjoyment."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2010, 1 September 1892, Page 31
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