A PERILOUS FEAT.
The most startlingly beautiful achievement in bicycle riding, and one fraught with the deadliest danger to the performer, is the spiral ascent of Leonati, now with Forpaugh’s circus. The daring gymnast rides straight up a narrow spiral roadway around a pole 50. feet in height, and having reached the top he descends again at lightning speed. To swerve a fraction of an inch from the centre of gravity wonld be sudden and awful death, bnt the demon rider knows no fear. He descends his giddy, whirling course as calmly os if he were riding a plain surface. The feat is one unparalleled in daring and grace.
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1099, 15 October 1883, Page 3
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109A PERILOUS FEAT. Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1099, 15 October 1883, Page 3
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