Vol 1, No 12

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Rivista Mensile del Touring Club Ciclistico Italiano, Vol 1, No 12 cover

Articles in this issue

  • AI SOCI.
    The Direzione Generale reminds members to pay their 5-lira annual dues by 15 January per Article 15 of the Statute, lists office hours (daily 9am-6pm, Wednesday evenings 8-11pm) and the General Treasurer's address for payments, and explains that showing a T.C.C.I. card entitles members to the same treatment as members of the Touring Club de France and Touring Club de Belgique at their consuls, hotels, mechanics and photographers; negotiations with the German Allgemeine Radfahrer Union are reported as close to a favourable outcome.
  • Istruzioni al Corpo Consolare
    The Technical Section, compiling a nationwide directory of bicycle repairers, mechanics and blacksmiths, asks the Corpo Consolare to send in details for their districts to speed the work; signed by section head Avv. Luzzatto and director-general Johnson.
  • Deliberazioni del Consiglio
    Minutes of five Consiglio meetings (27 November to 27 December 1895) record the 1896 Rivista Mensile printing contract awarded to the firm Colombo e Tarra, new consular appointments including Giovanni Baresi as Capo Console for the Milan district and Olindo Guerrini as Capo Console for Bologna province, a 1,500-lira subscription already raised toward the first 100 signpost poles at 25 lire each, continued opposition to a proposed bicycle tax under Minister Boselli, and the council covering out of pocket the debt left unpaid by treasurer rag. Citterio while directing the legal section to pursue him.
  • La lettura dei profili del T. C. C. I.
    Explains how to read the T.'s newly issued road profiles and 1:12,500-scale planimetric maps -- altimetric scales, marked water sources, hairpin-turn and dangerous level-crossing symbols -- and announces that profiles for the Spluga-Bellinzona, Novi Ligure-Genova (Passo dei Giovi), Genova-Spezia and Spezia-Parma (Passo della Cisa) roads are in preparation for publication that summer.
  • Spedizione dei Profili del T.
    Announces that the first three road profiles (Bologna-Pistoia, Sempione, Spluga) will be ready for members by 15 January 1896, with further profiles to follow by February or early March; shipping arrangements are detailed under the Cancelleria notice on p.199.
  • Alcuni dati pratici relativi alla Strada del Sempione
    Practical notes on cycling the Sempione (Simplon) pass identify Isella, Sempione village, the Ospizio hospice and Berisal as the best rest stops -- the Augustinian friars at the Ospizio give simple, well-kept rooms and expect only a discretionary alms-box donation -- and break the Domodossola-Brig road into three cycling sections of increasing difficulty, noting Italian maps spell the Swiss town 'Brieg' against the Swiss 'Brig'.
  • Alcuni dati pratici relativi alla Strada dello Spluga
    Practical notes on the Spluga pass describe the scenic hairpin bends below Pianazzo and its waterfall, recommend Campodolcino as the best lodging, warn that the side road to the alpine resort of Madesimo stops being cyclable there, and give the elevation change as 657 metres on the Spluga-Chiavenna side against 1,787 metres from Chiavenna, with two resting landings along the steep main ascent.
  • Alcuni dati pratici relativi alla Strada Bologna-Pistoia
    Practical notes on the Bologna-Pistoia road via the Porretta baths describe a scenic but broken profile of continual counter-slopes, name the Bagni di Porretta as the only real stopping point on the northern side, and note most cyclists will walk only the final two kilometres up to Collina while a strong rider can ride the whole Pistoia-side ascent from Capostrada.
  • Pali Indicatori.
    Sets the cost of a T.'s cast-iron guidepost pole at 25 lire installed -- matching the T.C.F.'s own price -- describes its design (a 3-metre U-iron post naming the donor beneath the club's title) and prints a second subscription list totalling 1,253 lire, with Binaghi's 100-lira gift the largest among donors including the Bertarelli and Forlanini families; the Cremona consulate, under C.C. prof. Cottarelli, pledges to cover installation costs for every pole assigned to its province.
  • Estratto dello Statuto
    Reprints Article 2 of the Statute, listing the T.'s eleven official purposes -- from protecting cyclists' rights on public roads and legal assistance to installing road-junction signposts and publishing a monthly review -- and the membership fees (2-lira registration plus 5-lira annual dues), noting new members joining from October 1895 are covered through 31 December 1896.
  • Guide.
    The Capo-Sezione Strade reports steady progress on the forthcoming Guida delle strade di comunicazione generale, sets 31 January 1896 as the final deadline for volunteers' notes on major roads (regional-guide notes can wait), and asks for the return of roughly 2,500 of the 6,000 survey forms still outstanding.
  • Consolato Generale
    The eleventh list of Corpo Consolare appointments, approved at the council's 4, 11 and 27 December meetings, names Olindo Guerrini as Capo Console for Bologna province and new consuls or vice-consuls for districts including Porto Maurizio, Rovigo, Catania, Fiume, London (C. Spanna at the Wasdour Street Hotel) and numerous towns across Lombardy.
  • Alberghi accordanti facilitazioni ai soci del T. C. C. I.
    Lists hotels across Italy and neighbouring Switzerland granting T.C.C.I. members set discounted rates -- Chiasso's Ristorante Croce Rossa offers 20% off, Aviano's Corona 10% off, and Bellagio, Fleurier, Geneva, Torino, Trento and Tirano hotels each quote fixed lunch/dinner/pension prices -- and corrects an earlier misprint: the Tortona Touring hotel is properly named 'S. Marziano Nuovo,' not 'S. Murziano.'
  • Biblioteca
    The Librarian, T. E. Magnasco, announces a 25% discount for T.C.C.I. members subscribing to the Verona weekly Il Ciclista Veneto, cutting the annual rate to 1.50 lire from 2 lire if the member's Touring status is noted on the postal money order.
  • Sezione Medica
    The Societa delle Terme in Milan offers T.C.C.I. members, on presentation of their card, 25% off common baths and the pool, 20% off showers and 15% off medicated baths; announced by Sezione Medica heads D. Segre and D. Forlanini.
  • Terzo Elenco dei Medici-Chirurghi-Farmacisti Soci del Touring
    A third list of T.C.C.I. member physicians, surgeons and pharmacists by town, including surgeons Angelo Baronio at Vogogna, Nino Cicardi at Lugano and Giovanni Moreschi at Bologna, chemists Luigi Burroni at Piacenza and Giulio Ferrari at Milan, and dentist Emilio Sollichon of Milan.
  • Cancelleria
    The Chancellery, A. Provasoli, lists what members will receive free in 1896 beyond the Rivista Mensile -- the Guida delle Strade di Grande Comunicazione, an estimated six regional guides, the Corpo Consolare/hotel/mechanics Annuario, and 18 road profiles -- and explains that members wanting registered (rather than ordinary, at-risk) postal delivery of these must send 2 lire, while only the 1896 membership card entitles a member to collect them in person.
  • RIPARATORI RACCOMANDATI DAL T. C. C. I.
    The Sezione Tecnica, under Avv. E. Luzzato, publishes a repairer directory organised by named touring routes -- Bergamo-Casal Morano, Voghera-Piacenza-Cremona-Brescia, Pinerolo-Monginevra-Briancon, Milano-Como-Lugano-Bellinzona and others -- naming individual mechanics and blacksmiths in each town, such as the Fratelli Belgesi at Bergamo and Augusto Radica e Fratello at Lugano, and flagging villages where no capable repairer could be found.
  • La seconda Esposizione Ciclistica a Milano
    Reports strong exhibitor demand -- English, German and Italian firms already signed up -- for the Veloce Club di Milano's second International Cycling Exhibition, opening in February at Corso Porta Nuova; the poster design by painter Ballerio has been chosen and will be printed by the Coen lithographic works and posted throughout Italy.