Spalding's Official Bicycle Guide for 1898

Excerpt from Spalding's Official Bicycle Guide for 1898: Containing Portraits of All the Leading American Riders and Valuable Instructions to Cyclists; Hints on Training; Complete List of "Best on Record" It would be a base libel to say that cycle racing is a fad, when the amount of money invested in it by practical men is considered and note taken of the number of professional and amateur racing men who are making a living out of the sport; for peculiar as it seems, it is hard to distinguish the amateur from the professional either by his work on the track, the peculiar construction of his anatomy, or even his relations with the festive maker, made to suffer so often through his ambi tion to help along some poor, struggling amateur to fame via the coin of the realm route. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.