Show BI OR TRI 4 > SALT LAKE CrrY Jan 91880 Editors Herald In the HERALD of this morning takes exceptions IA Professional Expert take ceptions to some of my remarks upon the bicycle I expected il I am glad of i I dont want things all my way I have eeen bicycles in Europe and America have read about them and have come to the conclusion conclu-sion that they are good things and de sirabl in the hands of professionals or experts at least t them and on good read I have seen statements of immense distances easily done by the aid of bioyclrs I do not dispute the claim that for trained cycle riders t make the greatest speed and distance with the least weight and friction and consequently least labor on good ronds the bicycle is the thing But for r rough ridgy rocky road it is not eo gock and for untrained riders it is not eogood not eo safe not so easily managed as a tricycle This point CA Professional Expert has not controverted I J think i incontrovertible I may be wrong on this point but it does net so appear yet to me The idea c repose I think is connected con-nected with the best recreation I a man takes a ride for recreation he doea not want to have his mind strained over his riding as i he were running a race or a Etreplechaso The bicyclists about town seem to have their minds on a perpetual train ever their naga A recreative ride to moat people would signify relaxation re-laxation of mind and of body too at least in part with much leisure to look around and see the country and the folks that might happen along and have as much as a passing greeting greet-ing or a brief chat with the latter occasionally oc-casionally I have noticed some of our city bicyclists when taking their recreatfob and they do manifest an absorbing prooccupation and a solemn gravity of demeanor that would not be out of character i they were going to their own funeral The most that I have hoard from them as they have rushed past is Look out Get out of the way I Now those are not of the sort of islu taton3 which one deaiiesto hear from a friend or from anybody on pain of being run over und lamed though the ridr be a faicyclut export or otherwise That is not the soit of recreation for the masses It is too recreaton exacting and unsociable both for rider and pedestrian On the cter hand i my friend oa a tricycle overtakts me he can slowdown slow-down to my walking pace of i he meots mo ho can halt without un horsir g himsslf and say Good marLing Mr Loinond How do you do How ate Mrs Lomond and the family Whats the nom Let us go along together and have a chat about things That wculd be sonic thing like recreation for the generality gener-ality of the people but it is not easy to get i with a bicycl while it would be with a tricyclo Thato where I take my stand not despising nor disparaging dis-paraging tho bicycle either for its special uses or in the eyes of its expoits and admirers BEN LOMOND |