Vol 1, No 20
Articles in this issue
- The Winchester bell prosecution ends in a shilling fine with 15s. 8d. costs. The editor reprints F. O. Dobell's letter to The Standard protesting a 23s. penalty for the same offence, pointedly refuses him sympathy, and urges every club affiliated to the Bicycle Union to enforce its road rules on pain of expulsion.
- Six numbered routes with surfaces and gradients: Petersfield to Winchester via Langrish and Bramdean Bottom, Petersfield to Portsmouth over Butser Hill past the “Bat and Ball” at Hambledon, Petersfield to Southampton via Fareham, Titchfield and Bursledon Bridge, Hythe to Fawley and Beaulieu, Fareham to Winchester via Bishop's Waltham and Twyford, and the old Roman road over Owlesbury Downs, which the writer says should be struck off the bicyclist's map as unrideable.
- No N.E. run because of Bank Holiday; the N.W. bathed from a boat in the Elstree reservoir and was fleeced 2s. 8d. for a meagre tea at the “Red Lion,” then ran to Watford and the Colne bathing place under the railway arches, with N. B. Morris offering to photograph the district at Oak Hill House. Two flatly contradictory accounts of the Western District's run are printed side by side, Captain W. A. Smith's solo chase to Ruislip and Breakspear, and a version placing the run at Ockham and Ripley.
- A. H. Koch and Coleman ride 182 miles in two and a half days from Surbiton over the Hog's Back to the “Swan” at Alresford, on by Winchester, Romsey and Lyndhurst (with a half-mile pig chase at Hartly Lodge) to Fordingbridge, whose 7s. 10d. bill at the “Crown” is printed as a model, and home by Salisbury, Andover and Basingstoke.
- F. M. Williams and J. W. Potter's fortnight of about 350 miles: Southampton by the Alice to Havre, then Trouville, Caen (the “Hotel St. Barbe”), Villers-Bocage, Vire, St. Pois, Avranches and Mont St. Michel, Granville, Coutances, Carentan and Bayeux. Advice includes carrying a brake and soap, buying the 5d. departmental maps, using the salad oil on hotel tables for lubricant, and never taking the steamer from Caen to Havre.
- District meeting places for 10, 17, 24 and 31 August, including Hertford, Stoke Pogis, Virginia Water by Chertsey, St. Albans via Radlett, Ingatestone, Aldenham Abbey, Ripley, East Grinstead and Sevenoaks.
- N. B. Morris of 80, Old Broad Street has still found no companion for a fortnight's easy September tour in Brittany, Normandy or the Valley of the Loire, and offers his experience of riding abroad twice and speaking French.
- Stanley B.C.'s two-mile open handicap at Alexandra Park on 10 August, Tower Hamlets B.C. at Alexandra Palace on the 17th, Kingston B.C.'s two miles on the Hampton Wick grass course on the 24th, and the London Athletic Club's 1, 3 and 6 mile open handicaps at Stamford Bridge on the 31st.
- H. C. Visick's 52-inch all-bright Goddard of Brighton with roller bearings at £12, W. J. Williams's offer to exchange a 54-inch Johnson's Mileage Indicator for a 56-inch, and J. F. Marchant's 58-in. Stassen at £12.
- An eight-light verse acrostic whose initials give a hero and whose finals give the man who saved his fame from dying out, followed by seven couplets each concealing the name of a distinguished member of the L.B.C.
- “A. H.” proposes a “Members' Movements” column for the touring season; “S. Square” offers eight years' training experience, natural living, early rising, no spirits or stray drinks, rice, fruit and lettuce, and citrate of magnesia for a hot mouth; and C. A. E. Pollock of Trinity College asks for road information on a proposed Dieppe–Rouen–Orleans–Lyons–Nice tour of some 700 miles and disclaims the mile time credited to him last week.
- A letter signed “Cactus” is referred to the Committee, “Hampshire Roads” is told to go on, and C. W. Nairn's communication cannot be inserted.