"From 1894 to 1899, it tracked the growing popularity of cycling in its nascent years, offering a revealing — and often amusing — window into the days when riding on two wheels was as high tech as writing code. “It was the PC of back then,” said Carl Burgwardt, owner and curator of the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum in Buffalo. “That was the topic of the day. The bicycle was the hot thing.” Some ideas about riding were tested in the column, such as the notion that one would develop “bicycle face” from riding: “the strained, half-despairing look which has come to be regarded as a characteristic of wheelmen.” Other columns voiced similarly specious health concerns, with particular emphasis on the danger to the lungs posed by arching one’s body for speed, a position the column once called “the monkey hump.” Needless to say, the unnamed Times cycling reporter did not look kindly on drop handlebars, or velocity of any sort." - Goran Zec from Bookmarklet