July 1900

Articles in this issue

• Editorial (opens in a new tab)

  Reports how the Rights and Privileges Committee and the Club Solicitor forced the A. B. Cycle Co. Ld. to refund a lady member's 9 pound deposit on a supposed second-class competition prize, the machine being valued at about 4 pounds 10s.; with paragraphs on the Touring Club de France's welcome to C.T.C. members visiting Paris, a correction to the Companion's Painswick yew trees and a Llanberis Pass accident.
• Official Notices (opens in a new tab)

  Chief Consular vacancies for Glamorgan, Scotland and India and a nomination for Glamorgan (Edwin Ernest Farr Sweet of Swansea), a plea that wronged members apply to the Rights and Privileges Committee, a list of District Associations with their Hon. Secretaries, the new Touring Bureau and Library, the Continental Road Book volumes and the British and Irish Handbook.
• The Council (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of the monthly Council meeting at the Clarendon Hotel, Edinburgh, on 9 June 1900 with W. Kendall Burnett in the chair, covering a ballot for a special committee on conferences with the N.C.U., a refund to the Lothians Association for its Edinburgh by-law meeting, and the Rights and Privileges, Foreign and Colonial Touring and Technical Committee reports, including the Road Book editor Mr. Goodworth and Professor Sharp's chain-testing machine.
• District Associations (opens in a new tab)

  Reports of the Antrim and Down, Leicestershire, Liverpool, Lothians, Manchester, Northumberland and Durham, Nottingham, and Preston and North Lancashire Associations, dealing with the glass and hedge-cuttings by-law, lights-on-vehicles by-laws, Birkenhead ferry charges, Ordnance Survey maps, danger boards, park access and July club runs.
• Touring Notes (opens in a new tab)

  A. W. Rumney's reply to a correspondent on the free wheel versus fixed gear, the Esmond saddle, and the need for finger-posts to show cyclists' routes (e.g. Keswick to Carlisle).
• Signs of the Times (opens in a new tab)

  Professor William Smart of Glasgow University's letter to the Glasgow Herald, 'The Claims of the Cyclist', urging Glasgow to provide good roads for cyclists, comparing Normandy's roads and opposing a tax on cycles.
• Companion to the Road Book (opens in a new tab)

  Haydon Perry's Volume II notes on Route 81 reversed, Chepstow to Monmouth by the Wye, describing Chepstow Castle and its tides, Brunel's railway bridge, Tintern Abbey, Bigswier and Redbrook, with illustrations by W. Palmer.
• Currente Calamo (opens in a new tab)

  F. T. Bidlake on buyers' disappointment with new machines delivered unadjusted, the weight of a modern roadster stripped down, over-heavy rims and brake rims, and the case for thin-walled, light tyres, with remarks on free-wheel and gear choice for a tricyclist and Yorkshire danger-boards.
• The Physiology and Hygiene of Cycling (opens in a new tab)

  Part III by E. B. Turner, F.R.C.S., on choosing and riding a bicycle: avoiding cheap machines, the value of rigidity over mere lightness, wheel base, saddle adjustment, crank length and gear experiments, and the vibration of the machine.
• Prospective Tours (opens in a new tab)

  Members' notices seeking touring companions for August and July trips in South Wales, Cornwall and Devon, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland and Paris, followed by 'A Story in Three Chapters' about a Lanark cycling accident reported in the Scotsman.
• Chemico-Cycling Jottings (opens in a new tab)

  F. H. Leeds on J. Veitch Wilson's pamphlet 'The Lubrication of Motor Vehicles and Cycles', filtering and mixing vaselin with oils, the neglect of oiling bearings and chains, and a gear case that distorted and wore away spokes.
• Reviews (opens in a new tab)

  Notices of C. L. Freeston's Cycling in the Alps (Grant Richards), Alex. M. Thompson's Dangle's Guide to Paris and the Exhibition, and F. Velo de la Roue's Practical Pocket French Interpreter and Cyclists' Guide to France, plus a Surrey Mirror danger-board paragraph.
• Our Summer Holiday (opens in a new tab)

  The Countess de Coursov's account of a holiday at Vianden in Luxembourg and a three-day cycling tour along the valleys of the Our and the Moselle through Roth, Bernkastel and Marienberg, illustrated by A. R. Quinton's view of Treves Cathedral.
• A Handbook of the Bicycle (opens in a new tab)

  Archibald Sharp's continued chapter on driving gears other than chain: bevel driving gears, including the Acatene, Crescent, Columbia and Sterling chainless bicycles, followed by the cross-roller gear.
• Mechanical and Practical (opens in a new tab)

  C. W. Brown on claims for friction-saving and speed-increasing gears and elliptical pedal paths, chainless devices, the decline of the long-crank theory (F. W. Ball), over-geared machines and a call for larger tyres.
• The Ladies' Page (opens in a new tab)

  Constance Everett-Green on the free wheel versus fixed wheel controversy (Mr. Pennell, Mr. Bidlake), skirts and coasting, the decoration of cycles on Pretoria Day and the Denbigh Cycle Guards for rail travel.
• Correspondence (opens in a new tab)

  Members' letters including C.T.C. French Itineraries (Boulogne-Paris, Dieppe-Paris, Loire valley), cycling in Egypt and Italy, a proposed unofficial tour in Ireland, cycles by rail and the general election, free wheels, two-speed gears and spring frames.
• List of Candidates, July, 1900 (opens in a new tab)

  The printed list of candidates for membership of the C.T.C., arranged by county from Bedfordshire onward, with their addresses, and the United States of America entries; prefaced by Articles 6 and 7 on election.
• Answers to Correspondents (opens in a new tab)

  Replies to numbered and named members on the Collier two-speed gear, Viscoleum and thin versus thick oils, Bowden brakes, rim-brakes and forks, tandem steering, age limits for membership and the Foreign Handbook.