September 1900

Articles in this issue

• Editorial (opens in a new tab)

  Announces the Half-Yearly General Meeting at the Grand Hotel, Manchester, on 5 October; returns to the A.B. Cycle Company's prize-competition methods, quoting a Cardiff County Court judgment against it and a member's letter; and reports a membership of 55,155, down on the 60,449 of 1899.
• Official Notices (opens in a new tab)

  Notice and Agenda of the Half-Yearly General Meeting at Manchester, Chief Consular vacancies (Orkney and Shetland, Canada, India, Switzerland), steamship concessions, the Rights and Privileges Committee with its list of District Associations and Hon. Secretaries, and the Touring Bureau and Library; continues with Customs endorsement of tickets for Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland and the United States.
• The Council (opens in a new tab)

  Minutes of the Council meeting at the Raven Hotel, Shrewsbury, on 11 August 1900, R. Holland Owen in the chair, with resolutions on Chief Consuls, the Glamorganshire District Association and the N.C.U. conference on the rival Cycle Carriage Bills; includes the Interim Report of the Rights and Privileges Committee on the A.B. Cycle Co., the Teignmouth Shaldon bridge tolls and railway weighing of cycles.
• Prospective Tours (opens in a new tab)

  Members' notices seeking companions: a Brittany tour in September, London to Portsmouth along the south coast, a bicycle trip in western France from Paris, a ride to John o'Groats, runs near Kew Gardens and a Wye Valley week.
• District Associations (opens in a new tab)

  Reports of the Leicestershire Association (caution board for Wymeswold hill, the Coalville 'Fox and Goose' tea refusal, September runs) and of the Nottinghamshire Association's committee and September runs to Colston Bassett, Alton Towers, Kinoulton and the Dukeries.
• Companion to the Road Book (opens in a new tab)

  Haydon Perry's Volume II notes on Route 419, Woodford Green to Watford, via Chingford Old Church, Chingford Green, Enfield and Cheshunt, with Routes 358 (reversed), 399 Enfield to Potter's Bar and 400 Enfield to Waltham Cross; illustrated by A. R. Quinton.
• Currente Calamo (opens in a new tab)

  F. T. Bidlake on two-speed and change-speed gears: why high-geared riders gain most from a low gear, how to choose the two ratios, and further comment on gears and brakes.
• The Physiology and Hygiene of Cycling (opens in a new tab)

  Part V by E. B. Turner, F.R.C.S., on cycling for the unsound: organic versus functional disease, the limited power of cycling in organic cases, and its use against sciatica, sleeplessness and indigestion.
• Mechanical and Practical (opens in a new tab)

  C. W. Brown replies to 'Long Cranks' on crank length and gearing, discusses free wheels, rim brakes and Bowden brake blocks, and answers a correspondent on tied and untied spokes.
• The Ladies' Page (opens in a new tab)

  Constance Everett-Green on touring in the August wind and rain, sending luggage by train while riding, and a dispute over cycling skirts and trailing in the mud.
• The Inventor of the Safety (opens in a new tab)

  Reprints a Daily Mail report that George Shergold of Gloucester invented the safety bicycle in 1876 and A. J. Wilson's reply crediting Starley's Rover of 1885, with the evolution from hobby horse to Macmillan to Michaux; followed by a Carlisle Express note on cyclists' bells.
• The Piedmontese Alps (opens in a new tab)

  E. A. Reynolds-Ball's cycling itineraries through Piedmont based on Turin: the Mont Cenis route from Modane to Susa and La Sagra, the Tenda tunnel, Garessio, Albenga and Oneglia, with advice on money and hotels.
• Some Cycling Adventures (opens in a new tab)

  Extracts from Chambers's Journal on a French landlord and gendarme refusing English gold near Nancy, a Highland guide-book hotel and a bicycle-shop quarrel; and a Carlisle Patriot account of a rockfall on the Larne coast road in Antrim.
• Reviews (opens in a new tab)

  Notices by C. L. F. of the Danish Tourist Society's illustrated Copenhagen: The Capital of Denmark (Ribe, Kolding, Fano, Rosenborg Castle) and J. Govane Duncan's sixpenny Guide for Cyclists, Pedestrians and Tourists, with its fifteen maps.
• Multum in Parvo (opens in a new tab)

  Miscellany of cycling snippets including 'A Cyclists' Purgatory' on the Yarmouth to Gorleston road, road-making costs and police-court cases involving cyclists and traction engines.
• Bicycling to Bloodhounds (opens in a new tab)

  C. Hill Wilson, writing in the Badminton Magazine, recommends keeping a bloodhound and following it on a bicycle as a summer substitute for hunting.
• Correspondence (opens in a new tab)

  Members' letters on Friesland hostility, a warning on forwarding cycles through Messrs. Gaze from Nice, cycling in France, the Alps and Palestine, the hotel system and C.T.C. hotels, open churches, the Physiology of Cycling, cycling in skirts, the Cycle Carriage Bill, free wheels and two-speed gears, the Whippet and Dursley-Pedersen bicycles, Bowden brakes, leaky tyres and chain lubricants.
• Answers to Correspondents (opens in a new tab)

  Replies to members on Shergold's claim to have invented the safety, acetylene lamps, one-legged riders, tandems, rear stays and brakes, free-wheel clutches, gear and crank sizes, cyclists' bells and lightning; followed by newspaper paragraphs 'Lived to Tell the Tale' and 'A Foolish Practice'.
• List of Candidates, September, 1900 (opens in a new tab)

  The month's list of candidates for membership, with Articles 6 and 7 on election, arranged by county from Bedfordshire onward and continuing through page 52.