Vol 2, No 9
Articles in this issue
- A leader invoking Charles Kingsley's love of the east wind to argue that grey Easter weather, bearable in a boat or on foot, is misery at four to six miles an hour through mud of the consistency of batter pudding, and praising the members whose plucky rides are recorded in this number.
- Notice from Hon. Sec. E. C. Koch that the club concert will be held on Tuesday, April 22nd at the Langham Hall, 43 Great Portland Street, at 7.30, with a rehearsal on Thursday at the 'Bell Inn,' Carter Lane, Doctors' Commons.
- A dialogue set in the members' room at Bath, in which Koch, Buckler, Butler and Martin recount their Easter rides through snow and slush, Alton, Winchester, Romsey, Salisbury, Shaftesbury and Warminster, a boggy 'foine hard road' near Wilton, Keynes's eleven-foot unicycle at Wimborne, and the party's retreat to the train at Calne and Hungerford.
- The concluding chapter, 'The Fall,' by Rusticus: the ten uniformed members of the fictional B.B.C. enjoy one glorious first club run, then are broken by a drenching second Saturday, little Verney's broken leg at Berners Hill, and defeat by the L.B.C.'s racers at the Sherleigh sports.
- Theo. Godlee's account of his failed Good Friday attempt on the 120 miles to Worcester, leaving Walthamstow at four in the morning over frozen and sticky mud through Tottenham, Watford, Hemel Hempstead, Tring, Aylesbury, Bicester and Banbury to Edge Hill, with warm words for the 'Oddfellows' Arms' at Two Waters and its shilling tea.
- Tabulated divisional meets for the month, N.E. at the top of Lea Bridge Road and Syborn's Corner for Epping and Waltham Abbey, N.W. at Jack Straw's Castle for Ridge and Northolt, W. at Harlesden Green for Elstree via Bentley Priory, S.W. at Surbiton Station and S.E. at Central Croydon Station, both for Dorking.
- Dated list of meetings from April 19th to July 5th, including the Surrey Bicycle Club at Kennington Oval, the L.B.C.'s own evening meeting and race meeting at Stamford Bridge, the Bicycle Union 1, 5, 25 and 50 mile championships, and the Pickwick Bicycle Club at the Alexandra Palace.
- A letter signed 'Goethe' asking the Committee, through the Gazette, why members are no longer issued meet cards, which were far handier to carry about than a paper when fixing engagements.
- 'Iota' recounts buying a Johnson mile gauge on the strength of others' accurate scoring, only to have it read 10 miles for thirty, then jump to 70 and shed its 'qrs.' hand altogether; he commends instead a home-made gauge fixed under a front bearing and worked off the crank.
- A single line to W. A. Smith: 'Next week.'