Quoth Don Wilson:
>Soon after H.G. Wells learned to ride a bike in the
>mid 1890s, he wrote a cluster of three books, two
>famous--The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man--and
>one not so--Wheels of Chance. As he tells it:
>
>"...Nevertheless the bicycle was the swiftest thing upon
>the roads in those days, there were as yet no
>automobiles and the cyclist had a lordiness, a sense
>of masterful adventure, that has gone from him
>altogether now."--H.G. Wells, Experiment in
>Autobiography, 1934, p. 458
This book is a fascinating read, you can get it for free at Project Gutenberg:
The year 1895 was indeed the pinnacle of cycling, as Wells mentions.
Sheldon "Wells Fan" Brown
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