Racers riding across a bridge in Brassac, a town
in the Pyrénées. photograph by Bill Frakes
"I had been familiar with that street for years and
had supposed it was dead level: But it was not, as the
bicycle now informed me to my surprise. The bicycle, in the
hands of a novice, is as alert and acute as a spirit-level
in detecting and vanishing
shades of difference in these matters. It notices a rise
where your untrained eye would not observe one that
existed."
