You will soon manage to adjust the saddle to a comfortable height. I myself would rather have this an inch too high than an inch too low.
From the very commencement cultivate a graceful pose. If you have a good bike, there is seldom any need to bend over the bar as men do. When you come to a hill that is difficult to negotiate, jump off and walk.
Spurting or going at a great pace is not for the fair sex. By doing so even once you may hurt yourself so that you will repent of it all your life.
If you do not feel over strong, never ride with those who are. You cannot keep up at their pace without danger, though the excitement may cause you to try.
Invalids should not talk much while riding with a friend; talking congests the head and undoes all the good the cycling may be doing them.
Girls do not care to enter inns on the road even for the questionable refreshment of ginger-beer or lemonade, but a glass of water from what the poets call a “murmuring rill” often does much good, and a portable paper folding-tumbler should be carried if the journey is to be of some length.
A few tiny biscuit-sandwiches, with bovril instead of meat, is a splendid pick-me-up.
Weakly girls perspire a good deal when riding, and this may prove a source of great danger if they dismount anywhere and stand in a draught. On returning, if the underclothing be damp, it ought to be changed, and it is just then that a cup of good tea or coffee proves so refreshing.
I have nothing to say regarding dress except this, that tight lacing is dangerous. Only the lightest and easiest of clothing should be worn and nothing heavy.
Wool should always be preferred to cotton.