Help! Any 1895 experts on slang out there?

[alphafemale]

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/01/03/donts-for-women-on-bicycles-1895/

6th Item down.

"Don’t attempt a “century.”

is a century?

I'm guessing maybe a wheelie?

[BootinUp]

1. Some kind of stunt, maybe a no hands or standing while no hands on the bars.

[bluedigger]

2. 100 mile ride.

Dora Rinehart of Colorado, gained a reputation as "America's Greatest Cyclienne"[1] for her long-distance riding in the mid 1890's.
Rinehart took up cycling in 1894, even though society at that time discouraged female riders. In 1896 she famously rode more than 100 100-mile rides. She commented that "I do not like to go on a hard run when my husband is with me, for you know it does take so much starch out of a man to ride the century."[2]
In June 1894 she addressed the 24th Annual Convention of the Colorado State Medical Society in Denver. On the agenda were presentations titled, "The New Movement in Dress Reform" and "Bicycle Exercise for Women." She is quoted as saying: "Just to give you an idea of the benefits of a divided skirt, it is almost impossible for a lady to ride any distance…with the ordinary skirt. You get too much of the dress on the one side of the wheel, and you do not get enough of the dress on the other side."[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Rinehart

[Bucky]

5. That quotation has left me sexually aroused

I must invent a time machine and go back to 1894 and meet that chick.

[bluedigger]

9. She'd probably snap you like a twig...

[alphafemale]

3. With a little research I found that the term today means riding 100 miles or Ks

But surely that wouldn't have even entered the mind of a normal person to ride 100 miles in those clunky heavy single speed bikes?

It must have been something else.

Edit. As to post above. Well I'll be damned.

[bluedigger]

4. It wasn't the bikes, it was the skirts!

Can I use the Trumad exception here?

[madinmaryland]

6. the trumad exception? Is that like the taterguy exception?

[bluedigger]

8. I always get those two confused.

I'm such a dumbass...

[madinmaryland]

13. Heh...

One's a douchebag and the other is a dumbass.

[BiggJawn]

10. They used to ride Le Tour with them.

Light bikes didn't start making the scene till after WW1 and shifting gears weren't allowed until the 30's so early on, they rode Fixies with wooden rims.
The shortest Tour in history was 1904, it was "only" 1500 miles.

[emilyg]

7. Nah - I was just a baby then.

[soleiri]

11. "Don’t discuss bloomers with every man you know."

Timeless advice I shall take to heart.

[rug]

12. It's 19th century slang for having anal sex on a penny-farthing bicycle.

[Major Nikon]

14. Sex with Benjamin Franklin

[HopeHoops]

15. Sounds like a wheelie.