CTC Gazette, Vol 1912, No 7
Articles in this issue
- The Secretary announces the indefinite postponement of the proposed Motor-Cycle Circular Tour, a new arrangement letting motor-cycling members clear German Customs duty-free, and a fresh reciprocal alliance with the Deutscher Touring Club of Munich.
- A report on the League's fourteenth congress, held in Vienna from 12th to 15th June 1912 at the invitation of the Austrian Touring Club, with the C.T.C. represented by Lt.-Col. C. H. L. Baskerville and Professor Louis Hurt, and the Italian Touring Club attending again after some years' absence.
- Fred Horsfield describes a Whitsun visit to the Amateur Camping Club's river site at Iver, near Uxbridge, and his own choice of a seaside camp at Hayling Island after a planned Pyrenees motor-cycle camping trip fell through.
- Mabel Richards argues there is no fixed age limit to cycling, citing a 73-year-old member who kept riding after a collision with a trap, and cautions against 'Pathfinder's' suggestion of Chinese lanterns as bicycle lights.
- F. T. Bidlake weighs correspondents' claims about ultra-light cycles of fifteen years ago, from a 24 lb. Osmond to record-breaker H. Green's 17 lb. stripped Dursley-Pedersen, and questions whether today's commercial Pedersens still match that lightness.
- The Foreign Chief Consul recounts a two-man cycling tour of Norway that crossed from Newcastle to Stavanger by sea before threading the Fjords by steamer and bicycle, dispelling the idea that Norway has no roads worth riding.
- E. Wheatley, with photographs by R. Hine, tours Connemara out of Galway, praising its unspoilt loughs, boglands and Atlantic coast roads as still free of the tourist crowds found elsewhere in Western Europe.
- A photographer's cycling tour of Wharfedale, invoking Ruskin on Turner's affinity for Yorkshire scenery, taking in Bolton Woods, the Strid and Barden Towers before a moorland climb to Harrogate.
- Writing as 'Sunbeam', a member recounts a thirteen-strong Birmingham District Association Whitsuntide run into the Cotswold Hills, including a veteran member who compares riding the old ordinary favourably with the modern safety.
- Douglas Leechman welcomes the Auto-Cycle Union's first tyre-reliability trials, to be run alongside this year's Six Days' Trial starting 12th August from Taunton, taking in Plymouth, Gloucester, Ilfracombe, Porlock and Dartmoor.