Vol 2, No 9
Articles in this issue
- Continuation of the union's licence register, numbers 147–249, naming clubs including R.K.S. Legja Kraków, K.S. Cracovia, W.T.C. and L.K.S. Pogoń Lwów.
- Leading article urging Polish cycling to prepare for the coming Olympiad, with coaches to nurture young talent and provincial clubs urged to contest national championships.
- "Rdzawiec" surveys inter-club rivalry since 1921, W.T.C., Cracovia's Łazarski, Poznań's Lange, "Union" Łódź's Miller, and previews the 1927 season for Kalisz, Pogoń Lwów and Brzeskie T.K.-S.
- Final instalment of Jacek Orlicz's serial: Włady beats foreign champion Elessmar in the motor-paced final at Dynasy and, sashed as champion, announces his retirement from racing.
- Argues cycling is healthy for children if gearing stays low, illustrated by six-year-old Jerzyk Nakoniecznikoff, son of the W.T.C. president, who rode over 16km to meet his father's train.
- Notice that from 1 May the editorial office and administration of "Kolarz Polski" have moved to ul. Mokotowska 8, Warsaw.
- Minutes of the Z.P.T.K.'s extraordinary general meeting of delegates on 24 April 1927 in Warsaw, with 26 societies holding 118 votes, working through statute amendments and hearing W.T.C. president Nakoniecznikoff offer reconciliation to the Lwów society.
- Minutes of the Z.P.T.K.'s ordinary general meeting on 24 April 1927, with 28 clubs and 123 votes: the 1926 accounts passed, Mieczysław Bodalski elected president with a fifteen-man board, and subscriptions raised to 75 groszy per member.
- First communiqué of the newly elected Z.P.T.K. board (25 April 1927), listing office-holders, Bodalski president, Nakoniecznikoff and Thiele vice-presidents, with board meetings fixed twice monthly.
- Stanisław Podgórski recounts becoming a cyclist, including an unexpected win over champion Stankiewicz and two Warsaw championships taken by beating champion Łazarski twice.
- On the six-day racing boom, naming Mac Namara "king of the six-days" for three years, with a table of placings across all eleven six-days of the season.
- Foreign chronicle: Giorgetti and Stockholm win the second Chicago six-day, and Georges Ronsse wins Paris–Roubaix over 260km from Curtel and Pélissier.
- Henryk Szamota argues training should prepare a rider for effort rather than be maximal effort itself, citing Friol's and Poulain's methods and recommending 20km at 40km/h over 10km at 45.
- Home chronicle led by W.T.C.'s full 1927 race programme, plus the Chorzów–Warszawa–Zamek relay carrying a message to President Mościcki and Ł.K.S. Łódź's touring programme to Gdynia.
- Kraków district notes: the Kraków–Zakopane hill race takes the July date instead of a track meeting, and Głowacki of A.K.S. Warszawa wins R.K.S. Legja's 23km cyclo-cross.