{"id":28844,"date":"2015-02-15T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28844"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T15:31:06","slug":"qotd-bicycle-saddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/15\/qotd-bicycle-saddles\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Bicycle saddles"},"content":{"rendered":"

I said: \u201cIt irritated me; it must have been worse for you. Then there are saddles,\u201d I went on \u2014 I wished to get this lesson home to him. \u201cCan you think of any saddle ever advertised that you have not tried?\u201d<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt has been an idea of mine that the right saddle is to be found.\u201d<\/p>\n

I said: \u201cYou give up that idea; this is an imperfect world of joy and sorrow mingled. There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made out of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard. There was that saddle you bought in Birmingham; it was divided in the middle, and looked like a pair of kidneys.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cYou mean that one constructed on anatomical principles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cVery likely,\u201d I replied. \u201cThe box you bought it in had a picture on the cover, representing a sitting skeleton \u2014 or rather that part of a skeleton which does sit.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt was quite correct; it showed you the true position of the\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

I said: \u201cWe will not go into details; the picture always seemed to me indelicate.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cMedically speaking, it was right.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPossibly,\u201d I said, \u201cfor a man who rode in nothing but his bones. I only know that I tried it myself, and that to a man who wore flesh it was agony. Every time you went over a stone or a rut it nipped you; it was like riding on an irritable lobster. You rode that for a month.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it only right to give it a fair trial,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n

I said: \u201cYou gave your family a fair trial also; if you will allow me the use of slang. Your wife told me that never in the whole course of your married life had she known you so bad tempered, so un-Christian like, as you were that month. Then you remember that other saddle, the one with the spring under it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cYou mean \u2018the Spiral.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

I said: \u201cI mean the one that jerked you up and down like a Jack-in-the-box; sometimes you came down again in the right place, and sometimes you didn\u2019t. I am not referring to these matters merely to recall painful memories, but I want to impress you with the folly of trying experiments at your time of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel<\/em><\/a>, 1914.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I said: \u201cIt irritated me; it must have been worse for you. Then there are saddles,\u201d I went on \u2014 I wished to get this lesson home to him. \u201cCan you think of any saddle ever advertised that you have not tried?\u201d He said: \u201cIt has been an idea of mine that the right saddle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41,15],"tags":[1175,174,948],"class_list":["post-28844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","category-technology","tag-bicycles","tag-innovation","tag-jkjerome"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7ve","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28845,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28844\/revisions\/28845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}