CYCLING NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5208, 16 December 1895, Page 3

CYCLING NOTES.

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Tlioy art) already with us in Sydney. The ladies of Sydney and Melbourne Government Houses will, it is said give the wheel a push along. The other day I (writes a lady in tlio llural Australian) saw a woman careering along a crowded street in a fashionable suburb, and how she was stared at, especially by the men! But I believe the advocates of this form of feminiue athletics, are not many. The Queen has expressed her entire disapproval of women riding bicycles. I certainly do not think it a graceful | sight to see a woman astride a bicycle, She may develop new muscles, but some other portions of a delicate organisation are : bound to suffer, some faculty slighted, or somo natural trait developed, By the rage for cycling in Paris, women in slower countries might well take a note of warning, In France and j in New York women now ride without skirts. I hope any such attempt in Sydney streets will bo pronounced indecent and suppressed. Here is a description of a "rational" dress for the female cyclist over in Paris: —A short tunic of purple velvet, bodice, black stockings, high laced boots, and an immense black hat and yeil, " Theatrical" would be a more appropriate term! The strength of wooden rims of a 'bicycle is surprising. In a recent Melbourne long distance road race the rider who finished second punctured his front tyro when twenty miles from home, and rode home on the rim, Except a few abrasions from stones the rim was not damaged.

What Zimmerman thinks of Parsons (says a Sydney paper) is best guaged from Zim. having persuaded PnrsonsintoridingaNiinrod machine, Parsons was given his pick —gratia. Zimmerman and his manager intend snapping all the best Australian cyclists to ride Zim's brand of eycle. Two or three Australians have been offered trips to America, and if successful there, | then on to Europe,