THE "CYCLE STOOP."

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 24, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 21.

THE "CYCLE STOOP."

THERE is cycling and cycling, cycling for pleasure and health, cycling for speed and money. The former, with the cycler erect, the lungs expanded, the pace not too rapid, is an exhilarating and healthful exercise, and the wheel thus used, with a proper saddle, is a blessing to many. It has also proved a blessing to many workingmen, enabling them to live out in the suburbs of large cities, in better surroundings and at less rent.

But the cyclist who rides for speed and fame and money, or he who imitates such, drops his handlebars, arches his back, raises his chin, and forms a double curvature—antero-posterior—in the spine, as the result of the constant humping of the back.

In addition to the "cycle stoop" we have the "bicycle face," developed by the bent professional or his amateur admirer. "God made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions," observes the wise preacher. The drop-handle riding is one of the inventions which bring man down from the upright position. Let cyclists be men, upright men.