Every Woman's Guide to Cycling

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The link I referenced is an actual review from 1896, isn't it?

here's the link to the book. Sadly, it ends on page 197! (in the middle of a sentence) I love the photos, advice, etc.

http://books.google.com/books?id=GYs...ing+for+ladies

quote: "The beginner usually exerts too much pressure
on the pedals, and has to pull correspondingly hard
on the handles to correct the falling tendency of the
machine. This is very hard work, and stiff arms and
shoulders and blistered hands may be often thus accounted
for; they are the result of badly balanced
pedaling. To be able to sit comfortably at work,
and to feel that it is not so hard after all, is a great
advance.
Now, the question of that other foot. By this time
which "the other foot" is will have become quite
evident; it is always the foot to which attention for
the moment is not directed, and which consequently
may meet unexpected disaster — a lost pedal, perhaps,
with its accompanying inconveniences."