Our Cycling Heritage
by Brian McFadzen
The Fenelon Bicycle Club circa 1908
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Moore's Waggon Shop -Bobcaygeon
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| This shot of the Moore's shop in Bobcaygeon
in the late 1800s was likely the agent for Red Bird Bicycles
from the Goold Bicycle Company. "C. Moore" in the Bobcaygeon
newspaper advertisement (above),, was
a relative of "J. H. Moore" on the sign over the shop. A son?
Maybe somebody out there knows? |
Photo courtesy of Harry Van Oudenaren
Photo courtesy of Harry Van Oudenaren
The Moore Waggon Shop was for
many years on the corner of King and Bolton Streets in
Bobcaygeon, where the CIBC branch now sits, so folks might want
to tip their helmets whenever they ride by.
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The Bobcaygeon
Independent and Midland Counties Herald
June 11, 1897
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BICYCLE DON'TS
Don't:
- expect to accomplish everything in a day.
- be afraid to ride a diamond-frame wheel.
- go into a century without training first.
- forget that the race is won in the last sprint.
- begin to ride for at least an hour after meals.
- drink cold fluids when overheated from riding.
- go out on a long run without being prepared for accidents to
the wheel.
- drink cold water. Gargle the throat and rinse the mouth with
it when thirsty.
- lose sight of the fact that the bicycle is a great developer
of physical beauty.
- permit a feeling of nervousness to affect you when learning to
ride a wheel.
- make any sacrifices to secure lightness of the wheel.
Lightness means less rigidity.
- fail to remember that those ahead cannot hear you unless you
ring your bell.
- imagine you are an expert unless you can manage a wheel
without putting your hands on the bars.
- make a fool of yourself by riding without your hands on the
bars, or show off by riding with one hand.
- forget you are entitled to half the road, (not the side.) So
persons driving horses, don't wait to be signalled, but quickly
turn out.
- lack confidence in yourself when learning to ride.
- loose sight of the fact that you must peddle straight.
- race until you have prepared yourself for the strain.
- pass a wheelman in distress without offering assistance.
- ride so long that you return home thoroughly exhausted.
- put all the force of your pedaling in the downward push.
- wait until you become tired before turning for home.
- blame the other fellow for every collision you happen to be
in.
- forget that others have as much right to the road as yourself.
- ride more than a mile at a time if a greater distance tires
you.
- try to do too much at the start, particularly if you are a
woman.
- allow your leg to get perfectly straight at any time while
riding.
- have your saddle so far to the rear that your position is not
easy.
- jump off your wheel and throw yourself down on the damp grass.
SMILETTS.
Sprockett-'Do you ride without a brake?'
Novvis-'Oh, no; I've had several breaks already.'
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