I started reading "The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll", written in 1896: it can be found here:
and here:
The later shows the illustrations...
It's Wells' fourth book, and is comic tale of a man on holiday/vacation learning to ride his new-to-him, old bike:
In the early days people would ride their bikes between inns, this is where motorcycle "cafe racing" comes from!
Jaybird
The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. Wells
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.
www.gutenberg.org
and here:
The later shows the illustrations...
It's Wells' fourth book, and is comic tale of a man on holiday/vacation learning to ride his new-to-him, old bike:
In the early days people would ride their bikes between inns, this is where motorcycle "cafe racing" comes from!
Jaybird