April 1902
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Articles in this issue
- Leader on the recent Annual and Special General Meetings: the proposals to admit all persons and automobilists to membership were defeated, while a guinea for five years or two guineas for ten to commute the five-shilling subscription was approved, with family members at three shillings each. It goes on to the decline in membership (hotel arrangements, tramways, wasted Gazettes and Handbooks, the Club's five courses open to a head of family), the Kent by-law on lights and perambulators and the King's County by-law, Ireland and the Cork Exhibition, the Thames Embankment roadway, and, at the head of p.5, a Scottish sheriff's ruling under the Roads and Bridges Act.
- Verse printed under the head, quoted from Whittier, on the spring and the open air after the winter.
- The Editor's column on oil lamps, prompted by Mr Langdale-Smith's complaint of the New Holophote, with the P. & A. Banner and other lamps discussed and the remedies correspondents offered for trimming, care and ventilation. It runs on to p.8, with the lamp remedies under small heads and a correspondent's letter on the Featherweight saddle on p.7.
- Essay by L. A. M. P. on the pleasures of anticipation for the touring cyclist, planning the route and stopping-places against the surprises of the road, and the happy-go-lucky tourist.
- F. T. Bidlake on saddles: the Esmond, the Cuthbert, the Brampton No. 1 with its flexible rear support, and the Brooks B 9 and B 10 patterns; he also argues for cable brakes fitted with a fixed conduit.
- Robert C. Clay on a tour of Auvergne from Clermont-Ferrand: the Puy de Dome and Royat, then Mont Dore, Besse and Condat to Murat, over the Cantal pass and past the Plomb du Cantal to Vic-sur-Cere (back to Murat by train), then the plateau road from Murat to Le Puy, with a detour to the Garabit viaduct, and Le Puy's cathedral and rocks; Lyons is named as the way home by rail; the whole tour about 200 miles.
- F. H. Leeds in three parts: On Drinking, disputing Dr Turner's Handbook article by arguing that a cyclist should drink freely, taking alcohol as a stimulant rather than a food, with his own whisky, milk and soda drink and bovril for teetotalers; 'Stupid' Members and their Machines, answering Sir Martin Conway's February letter; and Acetylene Lamps again, on Mr H. Graves's article in The Field and the glare of the lamps' wide cone.
- Letter from E. Mushing, managing director of the Centaur Cycle Co., answering Mr Shipton's March criticism that the Centaur Featherweight is painfully rigid: he argues that its rigidity is strength, explains the dual stays and bracing of the frame, compares its 4.5 lb frame with the Raleigh X-frame and Rover diamond Mr Shipton rode, and cites Bidlake, Mecredy and others who ride it. It runs on to p.18 with the Editor's bracketed rejoinder, which stands by the criticism and cites 'Cyclophil' in the Sunday Times.
- Constance Everett-Green on London traffic and the safer, if longer, routes for women cyclists, the widening of Piccadilly from Hyde Park Corner, the Torturers' runs for members who lack company, and the 'stupid member' correspondence, ending with a soda-and-egg drink.
- Report of a lecture by W. Rees Jeffreys at the Morley Memorial College on March 1, with lantern slides, on cycling in the Alps and the mountainous parts of the British Isles: the Stelvio Pass road, his own tours in Wales, the Lakes, Scotland and Ireland (Killarney), and the C.T.C.'s contracted hotels and its ticket as a protection abroad.
- Open letter from T. H. Holding answering correspondents on camping kit: the 2 lb tent and its weight, a corrected diagram of the Gipsy tent (reprinted on p.20), what to take and leave, packing the little rubber bags, toilet ware, sleeping blankets and sleeping bag, and on p.21 how to carry the kit on handlebar and under-saddle bags, with advice to go slowly.
- W. Rees Jeffreys for the Roads Improvement Association: 332 members sent a total of 70 pounds 14 shillings in December and January, the letter campaign to Members of Parliament, and the Association's annual meeting on March 19 at Parliament Street.
- 'Kuklos' argues that long cranks save no power but allow a high gear to be pedalled as easily as a low one, from three years on 9-inch cranks in Yorkshire and the Pennines; he recommends 8-inch cranks for 23- and 24-inch frames and 9-inch for a 25-inch frame, and cites the Hub two-speed gear and the Chater Lea and New Rapid makers.
- George T. McCaw on a summer tour of Denmark: the routes and steamers to Esbjerg, the roads and winds, the C.T.C. Handbook hotels and the Cyclehotellet at Kolding, the Dansk Cycle Ring maps, then Fyen and Zealand with Ringsted, Roskilde cathedral and Copenhagen, and Jutland to Randers, Aarhus and Silkeborg.
- The Annual General Meeting at the Castle Gate Lecture Hall, Nottingham, on March 14, 1902, chaired by W. Kendall Burnett: membership of 37,946 to date against 42,623 for 1901, Year Book sales of 3,826 and a surplus of 13,916 pounds, the report and accounts carried; O. H. Beatty's motion to admit all persons lost 28 to 105 and J. Pennell's to admit automobilists lost 52 to 72; commuting the subscription (a guinea for five years, two for ten) and three-shilling family membership carried; Lightwood's resolutions on the size of the Council replaced by a request that the Council report on it; Lieut.-Col. Wither's resolutions that Councillors and Consuls be touring cyclists defeated; and an Extraordinary Meeting adding a proviso to Article 18.
- Letters from members under a standing rule of one side of the paper: the decline in membership (family subscriptions, Handbook hotel lists, a pocket list of inns), the Birtwisle hydraulic frame, the Bowden brake, Alpine and Swiss tours, motor-bicycles and motor cycles for ladies, acetylene lamps, the Hub two-speed and other gears, the Centaur Featherweight, the size of the Council and the Chief Consular system, crank lengths, missing sign-posts in the Riviera, the rule of the road, the King's County by-laws, a plea for the stupid member, the Cork Exhibition, and natural phenomena; the letters run to p.49.
- The Editor's short replies on machines, brakes, saddles, free wheels, gears, lamps and tyres, with recommendations of makers and models for readers' lists.
- Standing notices under which members seek companions for tours at home and abroad, giving their dates, pace and routes, with replies to be sent care of the Editor.
- Proceedings of the Council at the special meeting at Nottingham on March 14, 1902, and the monthly meeting on March 15: the resolutions on sponsorship of motions, appointments of Representative Councillors and Chief Consuls, and the report of the Rights and Privileges Committee on the North and South Shields Railway Bill.
- Notice of the Extraordinary General Meeting at Newcastle-on-Tyne on April 11, 1902, to confirm an addition to Article 18 on uniform and badges; vacancies for Chief Consuls in Cornwall and India; and the nomination of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Wilson for the Kent representation.
- Review of Dawlish and the Estuary of the Exe by Beatrix Cresswell, the twentieth volume of the Homeland Association's handbooks, which has little to appeal to cyclists as cyclists but will suit those who tour from a convenient centre.
- Reports from the Antrim and Down, Glasgow, Leicestershire, Liverpool, Londonderry and Donegal, Lothians, Manchester, Metropolitan, Northumberland and Durham, Nottingham, and Warwickshire and Birmingham associations: resolutions on the Roads Improvement Association's memorandum and on railway carriage of cycles, the Council's size, park and tram-rail questions in Manchester, and the programmes of runs; the reports continue to p.56.
- Notices to members: the C.T.C. At Home and Abroad pamphlet, rights and privileges, the Touring Bureau and library, the British and Irish Road Book volumes, Bartholomew's revised maps and the Companion to the Road Book; on p.58 the British and Irish Handbook and Farmhouse list, the Foreign Handbook and reciprocal arrangements, the Continental Road Book, the badge and name-plates, customs, organised tours, steamship concessions and club costumes.
- The county lists of candidates for admission to the Club, with their addresses, continuing to pp.60-61 and the top of p.62.
- Article 8 on life membership and the resolutions of a General Meeting in February 1888 on composition and the life membership fund, with one candidate in the table, G. Bernard Shaw of Adelphi Terrace, who joined in June 1895.