Advice to Bicyclists.

[John]

From the Journal of the American Medical Association. 1895


Advice to Bicyclists.

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October 19, 1895

Rocheblave gives to bicyclists the following good advice from a
medical
standpoint: 1, no one should ride until after an examination by a
physician.
This examination should be made both before and after a walk or run,
for some
cardiac lesions only manifest themselves after a state of fatigue. 2,
ride no
faster than 12 kilometers an hour. 3, as far as possible guard against
the
desire to ride any faster. It is very difficult not to give way to the
"delirium
of swiftness." With a light machine on a good road an amateur may
easily make 25
kilometers an hour. This is too much, for the pulse is increased to
150, even at
14 and 16 kilometers per hour.

Edited by Annette Flanagin, RN, MA, Associate Senior Editor, and
Micaela
Sullivan-Fowler, MS, MA.


So be advised . . .