Vol 1, No 15
Articles in this issue
- The number is late because of the sudden illness of the Editor, Mr. A. O. Ward. Members are again pressed to send accounts of race meetings and tours, the paper undertaking to give notice when every road within a hundred miles of London has been thoroughly explored by the L.B.C.
- A satire on the village loafers who chaff and throw stones at passing bicyclists from the ale-house doors of Slowborough, Mudborough and Little Pedlington, and on their progeny, who know exactly how to drive a sheep under a bicycle or a pig into it; the stock jokes are so few they could be numbered on the fingers.
- “Angere, L.B.C.” and his young brother start from Staines for a run down west, ride by Datchet, Slough, Maidenhead, Henley and Wallingford in the teeth of a strong west wind, and give up over lunch, finishing the journey by train from Didcot Station.
- Francis Godlee announces that as no accommodation can be had at Chigwell, tea will be arranged elsewhere, probably at the “Thatched House,” Epping, without affecting the time or place of starting.
- District Captain R. G. Trollope tells S.W. members that for the general meet in the N.E. District they will assemble at Kingston Bridge at 6 p.m. and ride to Mr. Jolly's Branthwaite House, Downs Road, Clapton, where bicycles will be housed for the night, Hutchings acting as pilot and the return being made by train.
- Report of the L.A.C. Second Summer Meeting at Stamford Bridge on 29th June, watched by some 2,500 people, where M. D. Rücker, jun.'s handicapping of the Two Miles Bicycle Handicap left only 10 yards between first and sixth in the final; T. East of the Surrey B.C. beat E. W. P. Cambridge by 1½ yards, with W. T. Thorn and C. J. Turner of the L.B.C. also winning heats.
- Ashley Barrett and the Western District Captain set out for the Roman pottery beds in the Medway marshes at Upchurch, near Sittingbourne, trace Watling Street from Dartford until it vanishes in Swanscombe Park Wood, and abandon the quest at South Fleet for strawberries and an afternoon by the Terrace Pier at Gravesend.
- Meets for the July 13th General Meet at Chigwell by Epping Forest, most districts travelling from the top of Lea Bridge Road by train, and for July 20th (Upminster, Rickmansworth, Burnham Beeches, Westerham) and July 27th (Ongar, Hatfield, Horseley Towers, Dorking, Sevenoaks).
- Eleven verse clues for the week's double acrostic, from the building-stone mart the bicyclists start from and a well-known island off the north-west coast to Uncle Tom's little friend and the buckled wheel you make by putting your foot through the spokes.
- Forthcoming events from the Pickwick Bicycle Club's two-mile handicap at the Alexandra Palace on July 13th, through the Temple B.C. mile at Stamford Bridge handicapped by John Keen and the Joint Stock Banks' four miles, to the Brighton, Stanley and Tower Hamlets meetings.
- Will. T. Thorn, jun., intends to ride to Tarbet, on Loch Lomond, via Edinburgh, starting from 11, Ladbroke Square at four p.m. on Saturday, September 14th, and invites members to join him for the fortnight.
- Four machines offered at two insertions for 1s.: J. F. Marchant's 58-in. Stassen with front-wheel brake at £12, W. Wyndham's repainted 56-inch Keen's “Eclipse” racer at £10, H. R. Boyce's 52-inch “Special Challenge” with Carter brake at £12, and Gilbert F. Beck's cheap 56-inch racing “Humber.”
- “Cyclomane,” a foreign friend touring England, asks in Anglo-French for the least hilly and pleasantest four-day road from Torquay to London and for reasonably-priced inns, and gently warns that the club's little blue-nearly-black cap is no protection against the sun. N. B. Morris offers information on the routes to Paris and Switzerland via Dieppe or Havre and seeks companions for a September tour of Normandy and Brittany; A. J. Bacon warns that a “Filet” cotton jersey returns the perspiration as a cold wet rag and has given him nettle-rash; and “Anti-Trainist” asks why the N.E. General Meet should go to Chigwell by train at all.