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Link: tomatoes for cyclists
Cycling Before Lycra, a site about 1930s-1940s cycling. Contains things like the site's author's recent experiences in recreating a carbide bike lamp and selections from a 1906 guide to cyclists (under 'Memorabilia').
Cyclists should know that one of the finest remedies in the world for cyclists, and one that is little known, is the sustaining power of the tomato. No matter how tired and exhausted the rider may feel, if only a small piece of tomato is eaten, it acts like magic, taking all the depressed feeling away and making one feel quite fresh. Cyclists who are travelling long distances should try this.
My maternal grandfather, who died well before I was born, was also a keen cyclist, so it's interesting to see the sort of kit he might have used. He would apparently leave work on a Friday and set off with his brother for the weekend, riding wherever their fancy took them and sleeping under hedges until they arrived back at the factory on Monday morning.
Family history does not record whether or not he took any tomatoes.
Cyclists should know that one of the finest remedies in the world for cyclists, and one that is little known, is the sustaining power of the tomato. No matter how tired and exhausted the rider may feel, if only a small piece of tomato is eaten, it acts like magic, taking all the depressed feeling away and making one feel quite fresh. Cyclists who are travelling long distances should try this.
My maternal grandfather, who died well before I was born, was also a keen cyclist, so it's interesting to see the sort of kit he might have used. He would apparently leave work on a Friday and set off with his brother for the weekend, riding wherever their fancy took them and sleeping under hedges until they arrived back at the factory on Monday morning.
Family history does not record whether or not he took any tomatoes.
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Coincidentally enough, my uncles did a bike tour of the UK and Europe in 1963 and just sent out last night a link to pix that one of them scanned -- this is my Uncle Jeff (who is still bicycling, at age sixty-something). There are some other bicycle pix in the set, too....