Bicycling for Ladies

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Maria E. Ward. Bicycling for Ladies

Bicycling for Ladies

Table of Contents

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. Possibilities

CHAPTER II. What the Bicycle Does

CHAPTER III. On Wheels in General and Bicycles in Particular

CHAPTER IV. For Beginners

CHAPTER V. How to Make Progress

CHAPTER VI. Helping and Teaching; What to Learn

CHAPTER VII. A Few Things to Remember

CHAPTER VIII. The Art of Wheeling a Bicycle

CHAPTER IX. Position and Power

CHAPTER X. Difficulties to Overcome

CHAPTER XI. Dress

CHAPTER XII. Watch and Cyclometer

CHAPTER XIII. Women and Tools

CHAPTER XIV. Tools and How to Use Them

CHAPTER XV. Solving a Problem

CHAPTER XVI. Where to Keep a Bicycle

CHAPTER XVII. Tires

CHAPTER XVIII. Mechanics of Bicycling

CHAPTER XIX. Adjustment

CHAPTER XX. Exercise

CHAPTER XXI. Training

CHAPTER XXII. Breathlessness; The Limit Mechanical

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Maria E. Ward

The Common Sense of Bicycling; with Hints as to the Art of Wheeling—Advice to Beginners—Dress—Care of the Bicycle—Mechanics—Training—Exercise, etc., etc

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Each separate part of a bicycle must be made capable of withstanding a certain wear and strain, and must perform its own particular duties and work in conjunction with all other parts of the machine. To this end, it has been studied, perfected, tested; its weight and tensile strength calculated to a nicety; its finish and adjustment made matters of deep thought and careful investigation.

Only the best can be made to do in bicycle manufacture; each piece of metal must be separately tested, and the maximum of strength with the minimum of weight must be attained. What is known as the safety factor enters largely into the construction of the modern bicycle; that is, the machine is made much stronger than is necessary for the strain it is expected to withstand; this added strength involving of course the added weight of the material which supplies it. The calculated strength of a machine is the strength which fits it adequately to perform its work. When, as in the bicycle, the accurate testing by skilled workmen proves the existence of this degree of strength, the safety factor meanwhile being reduced to the lowest possible limit, the product is the perfected result of the highest degree of skill. Each part is tested for so many pounds strain or tension or compression, and each strain is accurately figured for each particular part; each part, moreover, must be able to stand so much additional strain, more than it is ever likely to have thrown upon it, though no bicycle is built to withstand the shock of collision under speed. In case of collision, the older, heavy bicycle was not smashed into fragments, as is the modern twenty-pounder. Something would give way, perhaps; it might break in several places. The light modern wheel holds together or is crushed to pieces, though its rider is less likely to suffer serious injury, the lighter construction having less power to do damage than the cumbrous wheel of fifty or sixty pounds weight.

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