• Skua
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      274 months ago

      The chainguard was invented in 1885, that would probably do the job

      • @[email protected]
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        4 months ago

        I thought that corsets didn’t really constrain breathing and that idea was mostly from men deriding women’s fashion?

        • @PugJesusOP
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          24 months ago

          Depends on the time period. Corset fashion had a period from the early-mid 19th century in which extremely constraining corsets were made of metal, whale bone, and like rigid materials. By the late 19th century, they were mostly fabric and as breathable as any other tight garment, but there was a period in which corsets were genuinely health hazards.

    • rosamundi
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      34 months ago

      The bike probably has a chain guard and wheel guard.

    • @Bashnagdul
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      104 months ago

      Looks like a Dutch style bike.

  • Iron Lynx
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    44 months ago

    Forget horse jousting, I’d like to see bicycle duelling!

    • @PugJesusOP
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      54 months ago

      lmao, when I was a kid, me and my friends used to bicycle joust on the road late at night with sticks.

      It’s a miracle any of us survived to adulthood.

    • Jerkface (any/all)
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      24 months ago

      Have you ever tried bike polo? Add some body armor and let people whack each other with the mallets…

      • Iron Lynx
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        24 months ago

        As a larp guy, my immediate thought was foam swords. But the armour is a fine idea.

          • Iron Lynx
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            24 months ago

            Would work, though I wouldn’t say I’d be too big of a fan of the aesthetic. If on the other hand the contestants would be in chain mail or plate mail, that’d be bloody neat.

  • @AnUnusualRelic
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    34 months ago

    Why isn’t that in the Olympics instead of all the crap we’ve got nowadays?