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Show Why Chinese Ride Women's Bicycles. Tho first blcyclo doalers who tried to sell wheels to the Chinese woro surprised sur-prised to find that there was a big and ready demand for women's wheels, but practically none for men's wheels. Yet none of tho blcyclo drummers drum-mers cnuld report having seen many women, If any, riding tho machines. The mystery was explained finally when It was learned that tho Chinese-man Chinese-man preferred tho women's wheels be-causo be-causo tho skirts that form part ot their costumes made It difficult to straddle tho diamond frame of the men's wheels. |