Cycling: The Craze of the Hour

When cycling took off in the 1890s, essays began to appear expressing worries and fearmongering about this radical new innovation. Writers worries about women velocipedes who might be unchaperoned or even oddly dressed, others decried the inevitable heart failure that may come from overexertion on a bicycle. Now, a century later, this book collects some of these original diatribes in an archive about early attitudes toward cycling. 

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