Vol 2, No 12
Articles in this issue
- Minutes of the meeting of 5th May 1879: the resignations of Messrs. Collette and Woledge accepted, and the Club Depot to continue at the 'Coach and Horses,' Kew Bridge.
- Hon. Sec. Herbert R. Boyce reminds members that entries for the Bath Race must reach him on or before 19th May.
- About 65 L.B.C. men and 20 Cambridge University B.C. men met at the 'Wellington,' Welwyn in charming weather, riding out via the Finchley road, Barnet Obelisk, Potter's Bar, Hatfield and Digswell hill; after tea in two rooms came songs including the 'Chinaman' and 'Pinafore' choruses, with Mr. Alfred Henry accompanying, and a moonlit ride home.
- 'A Clumsy One' follows the thirteen who stayed out after the Welwyn meet, Koch, Jennings and Alison to Baldock past six Danish barrows, the rest by moonlight to Hitchin past Knebworth Hall, then home over Offley, Luton, Dunstable, the Icknield way and Beacon Hill, stopping for watercress in a stream near Tring, and closing with Kinder's Catherine-wheel cropper at Oxhey and the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Brown of Oxhey Grove.
- 'Rusticus,' a self-described old fogey friendly to bicycles, attacks the bore who can talk of nothing else, arguing bicyclists' rights to his partner at a dance, judging every road only by how a machine runs on it, and calling hills 'awfully hard to ride up' when a lady praises the scenery.
- J. Keen v. Walter Phillips over ten miles with Phillips receiving 30 seconds; Keen caught him in the fourth mile and won by a yard and a half before about 1,000 people, his corrected 31min. 42sec. the best on record and Phillips's 32min. 12sec. also faster than any previous professional.
- E. C. Koch presses the members still owing for tickets they sold to settle so the accounts can be closed, and hints that the Orchestral Society is out of pocket over the concert and would welcome some solid mark of appreciation.
- Divisional meets for May 10th, 17th and 24th, Lea Bridge Road and Syborn's Corner for Abridge and Chigwell Row, Jack Straw's Castle for Harefield, St. Albans and Ruislip, Acton Church for Denham Moor via Ruislip, and Kingston and Central Croydon for Crawley and Ripley.
- Palmer Dalton reports thirteen N.W. men out for the General Meet, home to the Heath at 11.20 after 48 miles; W. A. Smith thanks Mr. James Powell for the loan of a 'Sturdy Stassen' when his own machine failed to arrive; and the S.W. notes a thin Ockham meet plus A. H. Koch's 68-mile run with Muller and Bridges over Hindhead to Hawkley and back through Woolmer Forest.
- E. Scott's guide to the island, the daily steamers from the Prince's Landing-stage, Liverpool, at moderate fares for man and machine, macadam main roads and smooth slaty by-roads, Peel Castle of 'Peveril of the Peak,' the 72-foot Laxey wheel, with his own 209-mile ride from Ealing to Liverpool in three and a half days and inns commended at Banbury, Rugeley and Warrington.
- Norman B. Morris continues his tour diary for September 29th-30th, from Douarnenez and its sardine fleet, Ile de Tristan and the 1664 ceiling paintings of St. Michel, over Ploneis to Quimper and the cathedral of St. Corentin, where he watches a Breton wedding at St. Matthieu before riding on to Concarneau.
- Dated list from the London Athletic Club's 2 miles handicap on May 10th to the Pickwick Bicycle Club at the Alexandra Palace on July 5th, including the L.B.C.'s evening and race meetings at Stamford Bridge and the Bicycle Union championships.
- R. J. Scott proposes that the five or six L.B.C. men at Brighton ride the twenty miles to meet the S.W. and S.E. districts at Crawley, starting from the Aquarium entrance; John W. Alison lists a fresh selection of second-hand road books (Paterson's, Cary's Roads and Travelling Atlas) after eleven copies sold within a day; and the Honorary Secretary answers Theo. Godlee on Rule 18, arguing that members who give only a City address are rightly classed in the North-East District.
- Mary Rucker and Marion Thorn report £22 3s. 6d. subscribed by ladies towards the prize, not enough for anything worthy of the L.B.C.; unless more comes in before May 25th the scheme will be abandoned and the money returned. A list of subscribers is appended.
- Standing notice that contributions must go to the Editor at 35, Eastcheap, bear the author's name though not necessarily for insertion, be written on one side of the paper only, and reach the office by Monday morning for immediate insertion.