Not even the triumphs of the bicycler are safe from the rivalry of women. A ■ Mrs Vicken, an English bicycle club rider, has won a road race of nineteen miles in one hour and forty minutes, against a picked team of men riders; while Miss Fordham, another English expert, has ridden 1900 miles at the rate of seventy-six miles a day. Both ladies profess to be better in health and spirits for their feats of wheeling.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11204, 26 February 1891, Page 3
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76Untitled Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11204, 26 February 1891, Page 3
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