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THE WINGED HEEL.Some Interesting Facto and Reflections Relating to Bicycle Navigation.Boston AuveilUer.Mounted on his fifty-two iuch wheel with the wind humming in the spkes and the mile-stones flitting behind him, the bicyclist appropriates tlie aesthetic meaning of the “winged heel” with wh.ch the ancients endowed the messenger of the gods. The prophetic myth of the wise mid athletic Greeks lias become a modern reality. To get over the ground and through the water In the quickest manner is the goal for which ardent spirits In all ages have put forth their best endeavors. The bieyelo ranks among those gifts of science to man, by which ho is enabled to supplement his own puny |H»wcrs with the exhaustlesH forces around I him. Ho sits in the saddle, and all na-! turo is but a four-footed beast to do his f bidding. Why should ho go a-foot. when ho can ride a mustang of steel, who knows his rider and never needs a lasso? This Is no boy's plaything. There nr© plenty of men, and their numlicra are increasing, who prefer it on some accounts to a horso or yacht. Bicycling Ls waikihg, with scientific economy of expended energy. 11 is an extension of the persoii\ an enlargement of the bodily functions in the direction of loeomotion. It seems iiitfl-| cult to the uninitiated to keen one’s balance on a vertical wheel, nut the I mechanical principle, or knock of the thing, is as easily acquired us skating, and much easier than to bidancc a loud on the head. The erect posture of the ! human framesusfainingn?uJ maintain* { ing a lengthened column of bones on the foot, is a mechanical marvel, but it comes by practice. The exhilaration of bicycling must lie felt to be appreciated. With the wind singing in your care, ami the mind as well as body in a higher plane, thero is an eestncy of triumph over inertia, gravitation andniroIthghwftethiFtlPlt;euhlt;Horfirwintoe\offrionwithWlt;coenwlofevtalhinthiIf,thitindetitstupothtoi
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North Manchester Journal
North Manchester, Indiana, US
Thu, Jan 23, 1879
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