This list is amusing (or appalling), but it raises a lot of interesting secondary questions from some of the terminology. A "century"? A "bicycle face"? Tell us more! #ddtb
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A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles Circa 1895
This list is amusing (or appalling), but it raises a lot of interesting secondary questions from some of the terminology. A "century"? A "bicycle face"? Tell us more! #ddtb
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A List of Don’ts for Women on Bicycles Circa 1895
A "century" is a 100-mile ride. I have no idea what a "bicycle face" is but need to find out!
“The evidence of a late-19th century bike scare is preserved under a glass display case. From the looks of things, a lot of people feared that the new mode of transportation, with its crazy-looking steering contraption and horse-less two wheels, was destined to send us all to Hell in a bike basket — or to the hospital with “bicycle face.”
You see, bicycle face, according to the display, was one of the “allegedly possible ailments” of riding a bike. Anti-bicyclists of the time claimed it was “the product of excessive worry over maintaining balance while riding.”
http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2009/12/back_to_the_days_when_society.html
@Ellie – So … “bicycle face” is a grimace of worry and panic? Interesting.
Good heavens! Wouldn’t want to be “sporty”! 🙂
@DaveN – Well, hard to be “sporty” and still a lady-subject-to-vapours. Next thing you know, they’ll be nattering on at length about their bloomers and honking their horns at businessmen!