CYCLING NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5182, 15 November 1895, Page 3

CYCLING NOTES.

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Paris has already started " cyclegrooms," who ride after their mistresses, and the Paris correspondent of a contemporary says that one of the duties of the governess now engaged by fashionable Parisian mothers is to cycle to the Bois with their young charges. A hew form of bicycle tire is now being pushed, This is constructed with aii internal Hap, which is said to facilitate a repair in the fallowing manner. Wl 1(!n!l puncturo is located a small quantity of rubber solution is injected. This falls on the" flap." A light pressure from outside causes the flap to adhere to the inside of the thread, and it is clenched there by the action of inflating the tjre, ' Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson, M.D., himself a cyclist sinco 1877, has just issued a significant warning to cyclists. The use of tho ivheol must be moderate! otherwise the most dangerous effect upon the heart and the circulation, may bq produced, An avoratjo ttyolist, in twenty-four hours, accomplishes a labour equal to lifting 200 tons weight one foot from the earth. The effort of driving the machino, increases tho circulation to 100 throbs a minute | and though tho sensation is exhilarating to tho rider, the exhilaration is like that of alcohol. The bicyclist in fact gets drunk with his swift motion through tho air; indeed, from what tho doctor says; we may assume the jiicyclp craze tb |jo duo to tfio Bamo cause which extends drunkenness; unnatural stimulation creating craving for constant satisfaction. The' more rapid' bicycling a mini or woman has tho more they want, at the expepse of the sorelytried - muscles' of tho heart. Moreover, continued'rapid'cycling iv'ill produce in the nerves a perpetual Vibratory condition, highly miscliiovouß, Biit'at last, nature slops in with an inexorable fiai. In the course of time the bicyclist >vho has abusedj liko the yptt|li whp sedulously sows wild' ptfiis, hjs bodily poiy'ors, roaches tho days when ho says, M l have 110 pleasure iu thpm," As a sort of solace Dr. Richardson adds that moderato cycling stirs up the liver and promotes bodily health.