Vol 5, No 11
Articles in this issue
- Standing note that the latest hour for reception of copy for the "Gazette" is 5.30 p.m. on Tuesdays.
- At the meeting of Monday 15th inst. Henry Lewis Ryan of Teddington, Henry Morse Taylor of Dilham, Norwich and Clermont Livingston of Walthamstow were elected; A. O. Tylor was allowed to withdraw his resignation, and St. Albans was fixed for the C.U.Bi.C., O.U.Bi.C. and L.B.C. Meet on 3rd June.
- The annual match against Oxford University Bicycle Club takes place at Oxford on Saturday next; several members are going up by road and the O.U.Bi.C. have invited the London team, and any other London men in Oxford, to dine with them after the races.
- The Officers hope every member will appear on Saturday, June 3rd, the meet has been shortened for the benefit of London men, and they are anxious to beat the club record attendance of 116 set in 1877.
- Report of the Executive meeting of May 9th at 17, Ironmonger Lane: the Pendle, Plymouth, Shaftesbury and Pilot B.C.s, Fulham B. and T.C. and Ramblers Cycling have joined; the Brentford furious-riding summons was dismissed; a Birmingham local centre was considered and resolutions passed on the registration of tricycles.
- Captain T. E. Scrutton's instructions to competitors, beds at the "White Lion," Bath, a drawing for places on Sunday evening, a special Great Western van for machines, road-riding costume required, lunch at Newbury and timekeepers wanted, followed by the 100-mile course from Cleveland Bridge to Hounslow with four tricky forks between Bath and Melksham, a list of recommended hotels, and the twenty-five entries received.
- H. G. A. Brown announces that the hares start from Sanderstead Church at 4.50 and all will tea at the "King's Arms," Westerham, where telegraphic news of the L.B.C. v. Oxford University races will be had; he invites visitors from other districts and calls it good practice for the Bath Trial.
- Captain-sanctioned meetings from May 20th to 30th, including the L.B.C. v. O.U.Bi.C. match, the Burton F.C. Two Miles Handicap, the City of London and St. Paul's School meetings at Stamford Bridge and the L.B.C. One Hundred Miles Trial.
- Tabulated district meets for May 20th and June 10th, Cheshunt ("Green Dragon"), Watford ("Essex Arms"), Walton, the Sanderstead paperchase, Ongar, Rickmansworth, Wisley Hut and Chelsfield, with no official run on Bank Holiday May 27th and all districts running to St. Albans on June 3rd.
- Reports of the 13th May runs: four W. men joined the N.W. at Ickenham; Theo. Godlee's small N.E. party found the "Orange Tree" at Havering; the N.W. rode 37 miles by Kenton, Pinner and Ruislip with spills for McBean, Tulloch, Pollock and Langmore on the Stanmore sewage works; and the S.W. and S.E. meeting was shifted from Leatherhead to the "Glyn Arms," Ewell, after the "Swan" refused to feed them, drawing thirty-nine men.
- "Soud Squares" describes seventy-seven miles on the West District's double tricycle with E. Naylor, Kew, Kingston and Ewell, flying Reigate Hill with legs up, a tow-rope haul to the tower on Leith Hill, then Gomshall, the Silent Pool, Newland's Corner and Ripley, concluding the machine beats a bicycle in rough hilly lanes but not on high roads.
- W. R. Sewell's satire on the vulgar Saturday-afternoon rider who pervades the roads round London, his bugle blasts, his "easy termer," his black tail coat and 30s. why-pay-more suits, and the inscrutable law by which the biggest club helmets fall to the smallest men.
- E. H. Winks recounts the bicycle tour he and E. Paxon made in August 1881, from the "Marmion" steamer to Leith and on by Perth, Pitlochrie, the Pass of Killiecrankie, Dalwhinnie, Inverness, Fort Augustus, Fort William (with the ascent of Ben Nevis), Glencoe and Inveroran to Inverary, about 300 miles, with hotel verdicts, swimming stops and the advice that forty miles a day is the best average.
- "Rambler" reports about four hundred tricyclists (twenty-eight of them women) at the Barnes meet, the President riding thirty miles with the C.U.Bi.C. straight off the train after nine months out of the saddle, a crated bicycle sent from Bishopsgate Street to Basle for 5s., the officers' push for a record muster at St. Albans, and the N.E. District Captain's retort to McCullum Hill.
- A. H. is thanked for his contribution, received.
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