Re: Dwarf bicycles: will they last?

In article <1177953333.902591.36490@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Hank Wirtz <hank@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 30, 10:05 am, Ryan Cousineau <rcous...@xxxxxx> wrote:
Carl has had great fun describing the latest cycling news from the
Victorian era, and I cannot help but get in on the game.

Here from May 1886, a report on the Stanley Show:

Dwarf, or so-called safety bicycles, are, with due respect to their
riders and their apparent popularity, a delusion and a snare.

...the so-called ³safeties² are only a fashion.

http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume08/outVIII02/outVIII02c.pdf

ANSWERING UNASKED QUESTIONS, I SAY!

Hank, I do believe you are reading someone else's lines here.

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