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…smooth steep incline, the bumping corduroy by-ways, the canal towpaths, the lakeside drives and the stubborn stiff hill to be climbed.” Women on bicycles broadened their horizons beyond the neighbourhoods…
Continue Reading…smooth steep incline, the bumping corduroy by-ways, the canal towpaths, the lakeside drives and the stubborn stiff hill to be climbed.” Women on bicycles broadened their horizons beyond the neighbourhoods…
Continue Reading…the suffragette movement. Part of the fight for women’s rights was featured in The Wheels of Chance, a comic novel by author and noted cyclist H. G. Wells. His hero…
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Continue Reading…in the book, of course. Sweet – who wrote under the name T.H.S. Escott – suggested that the posture of high-society women had been improved by their taking to the…
Continue Reading…bicycles in prototype motor bicycles, in cars and in his Ivel Agricultural Motor, the first practical motor tractor. (Incidentally, Albone also developed an early women’s Safety bicycle and later produced…
Continue Reading…of sorts) but it had been the bicycle which had given women their first true taste of freedom. Bicycles required no fare, no feed; bicycles didn’t have timetables; bicycles could…
Continue Reading…times in one mile’s riding, by the irregularity and peevish crossness of such-like whifflers and market women; yea, although their panniers be clearly empty, they will stoutly contend for the…
Continue Reading…to die in one,” said H. G. Wells in 1901.[1] When the use of stagecoaches tailed off thanks to competition from railways, Britain’s expensive turnpikes went through a period of…
Continue Reading…cycleways which duplicate the main arteries and feed both the housing and the industrial areas. Mr Claxton was a keen cyclist and was well aware of the need to cater…
Continue Reading…been updated and is due to be updated again – it will always have the most up-to-date info. It’s not as easy to nudge Amazon into notifying Kindle-version buyers of…
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