Ladies, to your wheels:
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/ ... cles-1895/
But what *do* you think of my bloomers?
But what *do* you think of my bloomers?
Have we got time for another cuppa?
Re: But what *do* you think of my bloomers?
Don’t cultivate a “bicycle face"
That one had me. Google to the rescue. Seems I'm not the only one baffled by the term:
http://garethrees.org/2012/01/10/shadwell/
Well if Dr Shadwell coined the term bicycle face then I suspect the more enduring term "quack" was coined straight afterwards in his honour.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled - Richard Feynman
Re: But what *do* you think of my bloomers?
I'd just assumed that it was advising the ladies not to grow a handlebar moustache! IGMC
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Re: But what *do* you think of my bloomers?
Don’t contest the right of way with cable cars.
"Cable cars" meaning trams?
That's sound advice for 1895 and today.
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Re: But what *do* you think of my bloomers?
Perhaps Dr Shadwell was a comedian? As far as I can tell his definition of bicycle face is "concentrating on something."