Sit Up Straight On Your Bicycle

There is absolutely no reason for stooping over the handies in either of the two ways so commonly seen - and ;here is no excuse for so doing - in ordinary road riding. It may be necessary for the "scorcher." wlien engaged n "scorching," to assume the one or the other of these attitudes - to sprawl with the body straight but almost horizontal, and the head close to the handle bar, or to bend the upper part of the back as if trying to break it in its die, and throw the sboulders forward as if ilesiriug to niake them meet across his breast. Even so - oue wlio is not "scorching" does not need to make himself a liideous object to look at, and also to reduce the benefits of wheeling to a minimum, so far as its effect on