Vol 1, No 24
Articles in this issue
- Notice that unused tickets for the Stanley races dated August 10th will be available for the September 7th meeting.
- Hon. Sec. C. R. Hutchins announces that admission tickets for the Civil Service races of September 14th may be bought at half price from the Captain or himself.
- The N.W. District's soaked 24-mile run to Ridge on August 31st, sheltering half an hour under Barnet Railway Bridge and going by the Dyrham Park gates, with September fixtures listed for Aldenham, Shenley, Little Berkhampstead and Essendon.
- Captain M. D. Rucker, Jun., explains that with so many Committee men out of town no meeting could be convened and the run fixtures have run out, so next Saturday's destinations are left to the members present at each district meet.
- Arthur Herbert concludes his tour, pushing over the Kirkstone Pass in half an hour to the highest inn in England, then by Windermere, Kendal, Chorley, Chester, Shrewsbury, Ludlow, Worcester, the Cotswolds and Henley home to Norwood, 910 miles in fifteen days for just over ten guineas.
- Windsor Bicycle Club on September 7th, the Civil Service Bicycle Club at Stamford Bridge on the 14th, and Beckenham Bicycle Club's two-mile open handicap on its grass course on the 28th, handicapped by M. D. Rucker, Jun.
- R. G. Francis rides on through Bayeux, unimpressed by the tapestry, the Forest of Cerisy, St. Lo, Percy and Villedieu to Avranches, and watches a startled cart-horse plunge through a hedge with its owner and two barrels of cider before the whole village descends on the driver.
- W. A. Smith's Routes 16–20 covering Basingstoke to Fareham by Farleigh Hill and the Candovers, Basingstoke to Winchester (avoiding the dangerous grip in Popham Lane), Preston Candover to Alresford by Weald, Chilton Candover by Bugmore Hill, and Alresford to Cheriton by Titchbourne, 455 miles ridden in the trip.
- F. Jolly's route from Hackney Downs to Folkestone avoiding the City, by the Lea Bridge Road, Wanstead Flats, East Ham and the North Woolwich ferry (2d. for man and machine) to Eltham, with an Eltham policeman recommending the asphalte side-paths and R. Scott of the L.B.C. drying him out at Sidcup.
- In answer to "J. W. L.," a comparison of the two roads on: the prettier Lewes route by Forest Row, the long drag to Wych Cross, Dane Hill and Chailey, versus the Uckfield and Hailsham line, with a warning to take the new road at the Cemetery rather than dropping into Eastbourne old town.
- Eleven verses of light verse, each closing "My bicycle," praising the machine for carrying the poet away from care, past hostile country clowns and once from an angry cow, and protesting against those who call it a nuisance.
- Owen Roe's five routes out of Beaulieu and Hatch Pond, to Lymington, Christchurch and Sherborne by Wimborne, Blandford and Sturminster; the Red House and Brockenhurst alternatives; a cliff-top deviation by Milford with a view across the Needles; and Christchurch to Hythe by Fordingbridge and Downton, with praise for Lane of Dibden as a repairer.
- Croydon and Blackheath Division meeting places for September 7th (both for Seal, joining at Farnborough) and September 14th (Leatherhead and Westerham respectively).
- Machines offered by Gilbert F. Beck (57-inch racing and 56-inch semi-racing "Humbers"), H. V. Cleaver (54-inch "Stassen," £11) and A. Ogier Ward (56-inch Norwood, £12), with a note that W. A. Smith should have been credited with last week's "Buried Londoners."