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THE AMERICAN BEE KEEPER. 



March 



Kefering to our comments on his 

 109 mile bicycle ride from Toledo to 

 Medina in 9 hours, our friend Ernest 

 Root goes into quite a lengthy ex- 

 planation as to how and why he did 

 it with such apparent ease. The ex- 

 planation is quite convincing and we 

 no longer doubt the accuracy of the 

 distance or time. It seems that . the 

 9 hours did not include the several 

 stops for rest or refreshment. This 

 we did not understand before. It is 

 not, as Ernest says, a very difficult 

 task for a good rider to cover 109 miles 

 in 9 hours on a good road, especially 

 when it is as level as are. many of the 

 Ohio roads, but he makes out that 

 we live in a very hilly state which is 

 hardly so, at least as far as bicycle 

 riding goes. The distance from James- 

 town to Niagara Falls " on a wheel," 

 is 100 miles and there is not a hill but 

 the writer can ride, and only one that 

 is considered at all difficult ; and 

 while there are long grades to climb, 

 for every ascent there is an equal de- 

 cent, and what time is lost going up 

 the hill is more than regained in 

 coasting down the opposite side. One 

 of the best known "century" road 

 courses in the countiy and one on 

 which very low records have been 

 made is from Erie to Buffalo, and we 

 strike this road 45 miles from Erie and 

 20 miles northwest of Jamestown- 

 "We would be much pleased to have 

 Ernest take a run down here the com- 

 ing summer so we might show him the 

 kind of country we have to ride over. 

 There is none more picturesque in the 

 state. 



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