Vol 1, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Z.P.T.K. board communiqué admitting four new member clubs, suspending Jan Zybert (S.K. "Resursa" Łódź) for four weeks for unsporting conduct at Helenów, and announcing a gold token for the fastest provincial championship road-race time of 1926.
- The Z.P.T.K.'s regulations for the 100 km unpaced provincial road championship, restricting entry to licence-holding club members, setting a 3h 40m qualifying standard, and laying down sixteen rules on pacing, spares, feeding and machine sealing.
- Leading article argues Warsaw should become an international cycling centre now the rebuilt Dynasy track rivals Europe's best, predicting "Warszawa zastąpi Paryż" within two years given the city's central position relative to Prague, Vienna and Budapest.
- Signed "Fes.", attacks provincial track promoters for badly structured heats that exhaust sprinters and eliminate stayers, and sets out a model programme separating sprint, middle-distance and stayer events by rider type.
- Signed "Sportowiec", S. Ziembicki won the 105 km Express Poranny cup road race in 4h 8m 32s, 43 sec ahead of Duszyński, after gambling a sprint over greasy setts at Karowa; Gronczewski finished third.
- At S.S. "Union"'s Helenów, Łódź opening meeting on 25 May, Szmidt beat Zybert, Łazarski and Janociński in the 1200 m final and also won the Krajowe Derby Wiosenne, while Szmidt and Łazarski took the hour madison with 36 km 400 m.
- In the Zawadzki firm's 50 km road race on the Jabłonna–Struga road, Ochniewski won the closing sprint by half a wheel from Kwiatkowski, with Artur Karle third; Gronczewski's late solo break was caught in the final kilometre.
- Foreign round-up: Denmark beat Holland 20–10 at Copenhagen's Ordrup track, the 1926 Tour de France was enlarged to 6,000 km over seventeen stages from Evian to Paris, and Abegglen took the Swiss amateur title at Oerlikon with Egg and P. Suter winning the professional and stayer titles.
- Editorial notice asking provincial correspondents to send manuscripts by registered post at least five days before the issue goes to press.
- Home news: the Warszawskie Towarzystwo Cyklistów's new board under Prince Seweryn Czetwertyński, the reopened Dynasy track redesigned for 120 km/h motor-paced racing, and Jan Głowacki's win over 13.5 km from 244 starters in the Express Poranny street race, plus club reports including a women's race at Wieliczka won by Janina Kwaśniewska.