[2] Charlie offers Mabel a ride on his two-seater motorcycle, which she accepts in preference to his rival's racing car.

As the race progresses, despite a very late start, Mabel, with a co-driver beside her, manages to gain a lead of three laps.

The car tips over on a bend but a group of men push the heavy 1913 Stutz Bearcat upright again.

A reviewer from the New York Dramatic Mirror wrote of the film, "The bright particular star who carries the lead [in Mabel at the Wheel] is Charles Chaplin.

Long acquaintance with the speaking stage, and a naturally funny manner of appearing have made him, in the three months' experience that he has had in motion pictures, second to none.

This is a Keystone comedy, having said which you proceed to qualify with all the adjectives standing for funny, burlesque, grotesque, farcical or screaming that you can think of, and leave with the fear that you have not done it justice.