De Kampioen, Vol 23, No 22
Articles in this issue
- Provisional programme for the A.N.W.B.'s Bondsfeesten at Dordrecht on 20-22 July 1906: an official reception at the town hall, a three-hour salon-boat reconnaissance round the Island of Dordt via the Dordtsche Kil, Hollandsch Diep, the Moerdijk bridge, the Biesbosch and the Merwede, and a concert by the band of the 1st Regiment. Signed by Henri Meijer, who urges members to keep the days free.
- Henri Meijer's travel sketch of the Batavier steamer working up the Thames at dawn past Gravesend, where customs men and the quarantine doctor come aboard, to a berth at the Brunswick Pier by Blackwall. He then races by Underground via Fenchurch Street and Gower Street to Euston for the Birmingham express, bound for a visit to the Eadie Manufacturing Company at Redditch.
- Continuation of a Dutch party's Black Forest tour: 13.5 km of climbing (10 of them pushing) to the 1121 m Notschrei summit, a fast braked descent into Todtnau, and the writer's verdict that the Wehratal and Schlüchttal beat the Albtal because the road there runs beside the stream rather than 60 m above it. Ends with a bleak sketch of the hamlet of Prag after the party declined to climb the Feldberg on the hotelier's advice.
- Miscellaneous news column, opening with the marriage of Adolf Delgeur of Rotterdam to Johanna de Groot. Delgeur, of Gebrs. Delgeur & Co. at Delfshaven, has made the magazine's blocks for years and was among Rotterdam's earliest cyclists, touring much of Europe and the whole island of Java by wheel.
- Copies of the number of "Eigen Haard" devoted to the A.N.W.B. are still available for 25 cents in stamps or by postal order from the first secretary at Heerengracht 247, Amsterdam.
- The polder board of Nieuw-Lekkerland has refused the Bond's request of 14 January to lay a cycle path along the embankment of the Zomerweg at Oud-Alblas.
- Another rider ignored the A.N.W.B.'s warning boards on the dangerous descent of "het Kopje" at Bloemendaal, fell and was hurt badly enough to need a doctor; the Bond asks when cyclists will finally heed its warnings. Reprinted from the Algemeen Handelsblad.
- Club run on Whit Monday leaving Haarlem's Groote Markt at 7 a.m. for Amsterdam, Muiden, Naarden, Bussum, Laren, Hilversum, Utrecht, Breukelen, Nieuwersluis, Loenen and Abcoude, returning via Amsterdam; riders to bring provisions, details from secretary F. W. Westerman.
- On Ascension Day a cyclist "L." of Amsterdam, pacing the Gooische steam tram with friends, was thrown when another rider swerved; his leg went into the tram wheels and he was carried to Naarden with foot and ankle wounds, dressed by Dr. Le Coultre. Reprinted from the Algemeen Handelsblad.
- Notice of a two-day run from Utrecht to Arnhem on 3-4 June and a one-day run around Utrecht on 4 June, open to all A.N.W.B. members including women; entries by 2 June to the secretary-treasurer at Nieuwe Rijn 32, Leiden.
- The Minister of Waterstaat has again rejected, and again without giving reasons, the Bond's request that post, telegraph and sub-post offices display the name of the place and its municipality so that touring cyclists can orient themselves.
- On the Paterswoldscheweg near Groningen three men riding alongside a tram failed to keep right; Miss B., a Groningen primary-school teacher who did keep right, collided with one of them, her machine was caught by the tram and she was dragged by the head over the stones and picked up unconscious, with serious concussion feared.
- A letter from junior member no. 18530, writing for several others, complains that the new local branch clubs set a minimum age of 16 and asks the editor to campaign for bringing the Bond's junior members together for rides of their own.
- Calendar of events worth a trip between April and August 1906, from the Leeuwarden exhibition with its motorcycle fêtes and the Milan international exhibition marking the opening of the Simplon tunnel, to the Rembrandt festivals at Leiden and Amsterdam, the Scheveningen motor-car fêtes, the Circuit de la Sarthe and the Bondsfeesten at Dordrecht on 20-22 July.
- The Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant's Constantinople correspondent reports on M. van der Hoeven, his brother G. van der Hoeven and F. Miga, three young Dutchmen tramping round the world in five years on the proceeds of postcards of themselves. Dutch consular officials and residents told them bluntly that their plan to walk on through Asia Minor, Syria, Persia and India was ignorant and unworkable, and expect the Ottoman authorities to stop them beyond Smyrna.
- Henri Meijer explains the free-wheel to lay readers by comparing it with a child's wooden ratchet rattle and with the pawl on a bascule-bridge winch. He then describes the hub itself: a fine-toothed pawl wheel screwed to the rear hub, an outer toothed ring carrying the chain, and five or six spring-loaded pawls, illustrated by a sectional drawing of an early pattern.
- Members' question-and-answer column, nos. 109-117: keys lost in the Spanderswoud, lime fouling in a Riemann acetylene lamp, cyclometers (the Veeder Trip Cyclometer from R. S. Stokvis is recommended), back-pedalling brake versus Bowden rim brakes on an F.N. acatène, cycle tax on a borrowed machine, smallpox in Luxembourg and waterproof gloves. A correspondent also reports a twice-weekly steamer service from Groningen to Borkum and Norderney from 15 June.
- From "Der Radwanderer", organ of the Deutsche Touring-Club München: motor vehicles may cross the Isar bridge at Moosburg on the München-Landshut road and the Glonn, Mühlbach and Altwasser bridges near Hohenkammer on the München-Ingolstadt road only at walking pace, on pain of a fine of up to 60 marks or 14 days' detention.
- The Provincial Executive of Utrecht has refused the Bond's request to open the Breudijkerweg temporarily to motor traffic while the Rhine bridge at Harmelen is under repair, judging the road too narrow for the extra traffic between Utrecht and Leiden.
- Club notices: Middelburg's "Scaldis" lists the Bond atlas, maps and Touring Club de Belgique itineraries its messenger holds; "Bondsbelang" afdeeling X Friesland postpones its rained-off run to 17 June; the Amsterdam, Haarlem and Zaandam societies announce joint picnic runs to Brouwers Kolkje and Assumburg; and W.V. "Amsterdam" publishes its revised Whitsun tour programme.
- Report on two runs of the new Amsterdam club under Joh. Sandow: a 20 May day ride to Haarlem, Hoofddorp and Aalsmeer where Westerman's Haarlemsche Wielrijders-Vereeniging met them at the Amsterdamsche Poort, and a 24 May run through the Zaanstreek with Coenraad Honig's Zaandam club "Wilhelmina" to Assumburg castle, Wijk aan Zee and Velsen. It closes with extracts from the club's unpublished Reglement van Orde: 12-15 km an hour, no more than 80 km in a day, and no racing.
- The Minerva works at Antwerp, already employing about 1,000 men, will build a further factory and take on 600 more to clear its backlog of car and motorcycle orders. R. G. Merry, Dunlop's director for Northern Europe, leaves to head the commercial department of the Industriële Maatschappij Trompenburg in Amsterdam.
- Two petitions from the Bond's executive, signed by chairman Edo Bergsma and secretary J. H. Slicher. The first asks The Hague council not to close the Hoogstraat, Veenestraat, Spuistraat and Vlamingstraat to motor vehicles from noon to 9 p.m.; the second asks the Queen to withhold approval from Diever's decision to levy cycle tolls on the roads to Boyl, Vledder and Dieverbrug.
- Official Bond matter: the executive and chief officers (Edo Bergsma, G. A. Pos, hoofdconsul D. Fockema, secretaries Slicher and Kraijenhoff, editor Henri Meijer), proposed key- and pump-keepers and Bond photographers, a tariff table of proposed Bond hotels and cafés, appointed motor and cycle repairers, and the weekly list of candidate members with their proposers.
- Corrections to two entries: hotelkeeper G. Hoekstra at Quatre-Bras near Bergum and J. B. Heijster of Oostenburgerstraat 321, Amsterdam. All candidate members listed in no. 20 have been admitted.
- Two members' letters. H. J. Wouters of Hilvarenbeek reports meetings at Lage Mierde and Hilvarenbeek about a cycle path to Reusel, notes the three sand cycle paths already built by club Velocitas, and asks the Bond to fix the near-impassable road linking the district with Belgium. H. G. A. Ackmann of Schermerhorn asks who is liable after a cyclist shot out of a side street into his slow-moving car; the editor declines to judge at a distance but says riders must use their eyes as well as their ears.