3/4/2023 0 Comments Hark a vagrant velocipede![]() ![]() To which you might say, ‘you would look ridiculous! Absolutely ridiculous.’ Especially if you were Bottomley, who - like a whole swathe of finger wagging, nay-saying fun police of the time - thought the only cycle women of the period should be concerned with was the reproductive kind. Amazing! I know I sure am lookingįorward to rolling down the street in one of these fashionable babies, puffing little clouds of smoke as I ITS COMING FOR US!Īccording to the author of The Velocipede: Its History and Practices (1869 - Hurd and Houghton?), the next big things in the world of cycling will be the ‘ Steam Velocipede‘,Īnd, which I referenced - the Hemming’s Unicycle. Everybody’s got the fever, that is something you all know - fever isn’t such a new thing, fever started long ago. Maybe I just made that up, but well, you know what they say: FEVER! In the morning. ![]() Of constantly propelling one’s feet in a pedaling motion at all times, even when off yourīicycle. One of the symptoms ofīeing struck by velocipede-fever was also, according to Bottomley (1869), the state Velocipedes were, for a while, basically the Pokemon Go of their time. Machine, upon which one could so gracefully annihilate time and space, theĪuthor of this little book was seized with his first attack of VelocipedeĪTTACK of bike FEVER, which (gracefully) ANNIHILATES TIME and SPACE! Man, the author’s excitement is catchy (I’m grinning just reading it!). The water, a few years ago, of that wonderful and fascinating two-wheeled You can really feel the excitement, the craze, the feee-vah! I mean, just look at this: Storybook ( amateurishly), I’m having a ball procrastinating leafing through early books on 19th/20thĬentury Velocipeding. Though it’s more fantastical than historical, researching my Pedaling was therefore a perfect preoccupation for a young girl trying to escape the watchful (albeit well meaning) eye of her chaperones! Charlie will be such a character. ![]() ✩ (read: badass bike dresses and tights). The cycling craze or bicycle boom was at its peak in the 1890s (Fleming 2015), with female riders eventually shedding pettis to dress wise for exercise It makes me laugh every time.) Writers like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frances Willard were, apparently, prominent advocates of female free-wheeling, penning many a bike-positive article. ( Of course, I’ve already got Kate Beaton’s Velocipedestrienne comic hanging above my writing desk. So badass! Apparently, Harpers Bazaar women’s magazine was quite an advocate for practical dress reform:Īce. Have you heard about the Wheelerwomen? In a book filled with (admittedly awesome) 1867 - 1898 dresses, this lady in her cycling gear just stood out to me. Richiiiiie Porte!).Ĭharlie Weilher’s a girl on the run. Her dream is to one day open her own bicycle repair shop (I penciled this watching Tour De France, which was fitting. Charlie (Charlotte) Weilher - an inventive little spokeslady (in more than one sense of the word) for aspiring wheelwomen. ![]()
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