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Trick Cyclist
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At the end of the 19th century, the bicycle became a popular form of exercise and transport. Acrobatic music hall performers began to experiment with what new things could be achieved on this new contraption ? although how and why someone discovered they could put out candles with bicycle wheels is a mystery.
As far as women were concerned, the bicycle was a controversial invention. For one thing, they had to mount the contraption which gave comedians ample scope for innuendo. Doctors warned of damage to women's sexual organs, not to mention their fragile nerves. In reality it meant that women now had an independent means of travel. It was also a chance to exercise in public although this was also disapproved of in some quarters.
Trick Cyclist Balancing on Candles
www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/collec...ect.php
www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/collec...ect.php
At the end of the 19th century, the bicycle became a popular form of exercise and transport. Acrobatic music hall performers began to experiment with what new things could be achieved on this new contraption ? although how and why someone discovered they could put out candles with bicycle wheels is a mystery.
As far as women were concerned, the bicycle was a controversial invention. For one thing, they had to mount the contraption which gave comedians ample scope for innuendo. Doctors warned of damage to women's sexual organs, not to mention their fragile nerves. In reality it meant that women now had an independent means of travel. It was also a chance to exercise in public although this was also disapproved of in some quarters.
Trick Cyclist Balancing on Candles
www.peopleplayuk.org.uk/collec...ect.php
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