Fascination About bike wheels January 23, 2019 Category: Blog click for more of self-reliance and independence The instant she will take her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood."[74]:859 In 1895 Frances Willard, the tightly laced president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, wrote A Wheel In just a Wheel: How I Uncovered to Experience the Bicycle, with a few Reflections by the Way, a seventy five-web site illustrated memoir praising "Gladys", her bicycle, for its "gladdening outcome" on her health and fitness and political optimism.[seventy two] Willard applied a cycling metaphor to urge other suffragists to motion.[72] Financial implicationsWay too stiff? Though I’ve been on stiffer wheels, I couldn’t get these to budge laterally involving some narrow gap brake pads either heading up 10% + grades or sprinting total on. Possibly a heavier or more robust rider can but I couldn’t.