Fancy Cycling, 1901: An Edwardian Guide. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by Old House Books, 2013
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, United KingdomReuseabook
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Item description from seller
Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.
Seller Inventory # CHL1765468
- Title
- Fancy Cycling, 1901: An Edwardian Guide
- Author
- Marks, Isabel
- Publisher
- Old House Books
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Used; Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1908402717
- ISBN 13
- 9781908402714
This is a special cloth hardcover gift edition reproduction of the original 1901 book which was one of the first to promote daring tricks for weird and wonderful acrobatics on two wheels, such as handle bar riding, riding backward and standing on the seat riding, hands off! Illustrated with period photographs showing outlandish daredevil "fancy cycling" stunts that have to be seen to be believed, it wonderfully captures a bygone age when popular fads and crazes were met with wild enthusiasm and is a delightful keepsake for cycling or sports enthusiasts.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
When watching the stream of cyclists amidst the sea of vehicles and horses it is easy to distinguish between the ordinary rider and the expert. These latter may be known by the accuracy of their serpentine curves amidst the openings out of, meeting, and overtaking traffic; by their correct steering and, by the coolness with which, further progress being temporarily barred, the front wheel is right-angled, and a stationary balance maintained.
May my insignificant efforts be of some little service to the merry band of tricksters; may the track of their wheels be ever increasingly present in the land.
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