"DON'T."

Otago Witness, Issue 224, 28 May 1896, Page 37

"DON'T."

Don't ride up a steep hill. Leave that sort of thing to fellows who haven't enough srn^b to go in when ir. rains. Waat gain is there in it, anyhow ? You can walk up and push your wheel almost as fast, and with one quarter of the exertion. If 100 much riding on the level is bad, too much hill climbing is 10 times worse. If you could look into the minds of many hill olimbers, jou would find that they half kill themielves to mak j bystanders think they ate wonderful riders. Really, that uorb of thing ia too silly to talk about with p&tiencp. Don't coast too much. If yon feel that life without coasting is mockery, then go to some hill that you are thoroughly f.uniliar wit-h, where there are no cros-iuRS, where yon cau \ratch the road for at least 100 miles ahead, and then take care. No matter whether jou have coasted down the bill 100 times before or not, tbe danger is always just a 8 great. Perhaps you »re never iii bo great peril ac whea you think you know it all. Don't scorch in the streets. At any crossing you are liable to run over some pedestrian or to collide with a big truck or carriage. Either one msy mean a life lout, or at least broken bones. You wouldn't drive a horsa at a 2 40 gait through the streets. Remember a bicycle is quite as dangerous. Don't think because homebody you know h*s ridden a century that you must do it too. There i« really very littlo satisfaction in riding 100 miles merely for the s»ke of saying that you bave doce it. If the other wheelman chooses to tire his muscles and overstrain his heart for a mere bit of boasting, lot him do it. Many are sorely tempted by the"century" folly. But think a moment. If you owned a fine thoroughbred horse, would you run the riok of ruining him for ever by speeding him to tha utmost limit of his strength for a whole day ? Yet ia not your own health more valuable to you than all the horses in the world ? Dour, above all things, and unde? any oircunntance;, ride a wheel that has not the best brake that money can buy and bjmi manufacture.—The Wheel.

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