Notes & References
…be distributed upon this side among our own people.” He thinks Congress should come to the rescue of the hat trade and “pass a law compelling every bicycle fiend to…
Continue Reading…be distributed upon this side among our own people.” He thinks Congress should come to the rescue of the hat trade and “pass a law compelling every bicycle fiend to…
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…
Continue Reading…they? But apart from pneumatic tyres, ball bearings, and the roads… COMMANDO: Lightweight steel tubing. XERXES: Chain driven differential gears. COMMANDOS: Huh? Heh? Huh… COMMANDO #2: Dust-free highways. Tractors. Automobile…
Continue Reading…road knowing there would be no cars coming along the other way. This made me very happy. Roads are for people, not just for people in motor cars. A chapter…
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…cycle-only “side-paths”, it had 40 miles of wide boulevards, which bicyclists had almost to themselves: the well-surfaced boulevards were for “pleasure vehicles” only, horse-drawn wagons were only allowed on dirt…
Continue Reading…University and an expert on traffic-free trails, the cycle infrastructure of Stevenage was designed to “produce maximum attraction, comfort and safety.” Cyclists were: “provided with their own segregated junction by…
Continue Reading…and is nestled on the French Riviera, close to Nice. Since its Monte Carlo casino opened in 1863 it has been a magnet for high-society and well-to-do ne’er do wells….
Continue Reading…available as a Kindle file on Amazon.com. The hi-res and standard Kindle files are also available on Gumroad.com (which doesn’t take as much of the action as Amazon) and there’s…
Continue Reading…via click-flicky Issuu.com. And by “due course” I mean “eventually” because I’m always kind of busy. There have been other chapters placed online already, including SPEED, WHO OWNS THE ROADS,…
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