Cycling Magazine, Vol 51, No 2629

Articles in this issue

• More About Our First Tour

  W. Oakley's article about the Whippet safety bicycle designed by C.M. Linley, whose spring frame was the most practical shock-absorbing design of its era until the Dunlop pneumatic tyre of 1888 proved a more efficient vibration absorber by intercepting road shocks before they reached the wheel rim.

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• Food and Lodgings — Touring at the Weekend Still Practical

  An editorial encouraging wartime cyclists not to abandon touring, arguing that beds are available at farms and Youth Hostels away from evacuee zones and that sandwiches of tinned fish, cheese, or chopped egg solve the rationed food problem on day rides.

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• No Cheap Bicycles — Adequate Future Supplies Far More Important

  An editorial reporting that Raleigh's managing director sees no way to reduce bicycle prices below their wartime level, arguing that the real issue is supply of materials and that Purchase Tax on bicycles is an unjust burden on an essential transport mode.

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• Cycle Design — The Need for Individuality

  The editors commend a reader's call for more variety and individuality in cycle design, resisting wartime pressure toward standardisation that would flatten out differences between manufacturers.

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