Vol 2, No 8
Articles in this issue
- Union bulletin continuing the 1927 licence register, numbers 72–146 across clubs including P.T.C., Ż.K.S. Hakoah Kraków and Ż.K.S. Hasmonea Lwów, with corrections to the list printed in number 5.
- Editorial attacking the bureaucratic hurdles a Warsaw cyclist must clear for a riding number, contrasting Paris's simple permit purchase and Czechoslovakia's tenfold output rise after abolishing riding plates.
- Report on the Second Polish Sports Congress, opened before the President of the Republic, where Col. Ulrych proposed a national physical-education network and sports badge and the next congress was set for no later than 1931.
- Report on the sports exhibition in Warsaw's Dolina Szwajcarska for the Sports Congress, where the W.T.C. showed its historic and championship-winning machines but manufacturers largely stayed away.
- Third instalment of Jacek Orlicz's serial: Włady refuses the syndicate's proposal and breaks every existing record at 80km/h to beat Elessmar, Tomsohn and Wiljams in a motor-paced race.
- "Pomian"'s commentary column defends Polish cycling records against a doubting sports paper and exposes the Wileńskie Towarzystwo Cyklistów i Łyżwiarzy for running sham "track" and road races.
- Wacław Kwieciński recounts becoming a cyclist, from racing unattached in 1907 to surviving two concussions on the Dynasy track and now riding until his son Zbyszek beats him.
- Second part on cyclist troops in the World War, reviewing post-war cyclist establishments in France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Finland, Holland and Belgium.
- Foreign chronicle: Ottavio Bottecchia, twice Tour de France winner, is pulled from his machine by fascist bridge guards near Mezzana and breaks his collarbone; Aerts–Mac Namara win the ninth Paris six-day.
- Home chronicle: W.T.C. opens its season with a Bielany ride and rebuilds the Dynasy track; Kraków and Lwów clubs publish 1927 race calendars amid rider defections to Pogoń.
- Some fifty Polish Sokół cyclists in France plan to ride home from Paris via Strasbourg, Stuttgart and Dresden to Poznań, treating it as training for a Poznań–Warszawa–Lwów race.
- Trade profile of Arnold Weissmann of Kraków, agent for French marques including "Alcyon", winner of the previous year's Tour de France, offering twenty years of guaranteed part replacement.
- Editor's answers to correspondents on the cost of a European cycle tour, the unfinished Szczęśliwice stadium, and a recommended massage preparation.
- Notice that from 1 May the offices of "Kolarz Polski" move to ul. Mokotowska 8, telephone 109-71.