Show bicycling rapidly becoming popular french Pas pastime tinie so popular his has bicycling become in n france that the french railways make up entire trains of bicycle cars the same as mail trains to handle the more than bicycles now running rampant over the hills and dales towns and countryside of that nation where one out of every six of the population owns a bicycle and stays on it most of the time from the cradle to the grave increased production of low priced cars the vast network of motor busses reduced rates on railways have all failed to lure the french men women and children from their favorite sport bicycling and where they go near or far with them goes their bicycle until literally they crowded the passengers right off the trains during weekends and vacation seasons bicycle go directly by train to the center of the distant region chosen for the tour and their bicycles will follow by special train within 24 hours or by shipping one day ahead will be awaiting the owner after the holiday is over the bicycle can be sent back the same way in paris the visitor cannot help but be amazed at the thousands of bi cyclists who weave their blissful way through traffic single or tandem in groups of 10 or 20 apparently patently ly with no thought of all the motor traffic around them in the seine department in the paris area alone there are more than bicycle owners but the north of france has even more the revenue from the bicycle owners in france is nearly francs in taxes |