Vol 2, No 7
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Kolarz Polski 2, no. 7 (1927). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/kolarz-polski/vol2-7/
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Articles in this issue
- The Z.P.T.K. board summons member societies to an Extraordinary General Meeting at 10am and the annual General Meeting at 3pm, both on 24 April at the Dynasy headquarters in Warsaw.
- Survey of the Polish bicycle industry: annual demand of 30,000–40,000 machines, with home production covering 25 per cent and everything now made domestically except tyres, chains and ball bearings.
- M. Bodalski proposes a roughly 1,600km "Dookoła Polski" race from Warsaw through Poznań, Kraków, Lwów and Lublin, modelled on the Union's own 650km three-stage race and the 6,000km Tour de France.
- Feliks Wojtkiewicz reviews six years of Polish track records, from Szymczyk's and Łazarski's 200m/400m marks to the Szymczyk–Lange–Podgórski–Oksiutycz world 4km team record, and argues record-holders deserve state decoration.
- "B. W." argues a military bicycle and a sporting-touring one need different specifications, and details a lightweight touring-race frame with brazed lugs, a low frame, steel rims and a Bowden rim brake.
- "Pomian" traces the bicycle's history from Livrac's 1790s vélocifère through Drais's draisine and Michaux's and Lallement's cranked wheel to the English Safety and Dunlop's pneumatic tyre.
- E. Lindeman defends the Warszawskie Towarzystwo Łyżwiarskie against the paper's criticism of a late-starting meeting; the editors reply, insisting the provincial championship did start 90 minutes late.
- "Łyżwiarz" criticises the Warsaw Skating Society's 1926 accounts for spending nearly 78,000 zł on a terrace and lavatories against only 5,742 zł on sport.
- Foreign chronicle: Schoering wins a 20km military cyclo-cross at Strasbourg; Mac Namara–Giorgetti win the New York six-day over 3,767km; and Wambst–Lacquehay win a three-hour Paris madison.
- Home chronicle: W.T.C.'s 1927 programme of 21 track days, 12 road days and 34 tours; the Second Polish Sports Congress; and a Kraków court ruling that riding two-up on a motorcycle is not forbidden.
- Miscellany: the "Impet" firm's Zygmunt Kalinowski brings back new cycling accessories from Paris, and former Warsaw champion Józef Grochowski returns to racing after a long illness.
- Publishing notes on the March "Przegląd Strzelecki i Łuczniczy" and the enlarged second edition of Jeziorowski and Junosza's jiu-jitsu manual "Walka wręcz".
- Opening banner of the paper's industrial department, profiling Polish bicycle and motorcycle manufacturers Fr. Zawadzki, Eugenjusz Kluska i S-ka, W. Sierpiński and B. Wahren.
- Profile of the Warsaw Zawadzki works, founded 1917, whose ersatz corded tyres kept racing going under occupation and whose machines carried the first post-war 1919 Polish road championship.
- Profile of the Kraków firm at Grodzka 63, Polish agents for the Belgian F.N. arms/motorcycle works, whose two-year guarantee has cost them only minor parts.
- Profile of Poland's oldest bicycle firm, trading in Łódź since 1891, making every component itself and selling several hundred "Wicher"-branded machines a year.
- Profile of the Warsaw Wahren firm, founded 1893, the country's sole maker of spokes, nipples, rims and complete aeroplane wheels, whose machine won the Bieg dookoła województwa warszawskiego.
- Advertorial urging sportsmen to avoid caffeinated coffee and drink the caffeine-free "Kawa Hag" instead.