Hard tail or six inches at the rear.
What tyres for …?
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it. If you live.
– “Taming the Bicycle” Mark Twain
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you’ve got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No–and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can’t fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.
– “Taming the Bicycle” Mark Twain
It was on the 10th day of May–1884–that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time.
The spectacles stayed on.
– Mark Twain’s Speeches