The Bicycling World, Vol 53, No 2
Articles in this issue
- The Cycle Manufacturers' Association and the Cycle Parts and Accessories Association met at the Lafayette Hotel, Buffalo, on 4 April and agreed a joint publicity campaign to revive public interest in bicycling; W. H. Crosby presided, W. S. Gorton chaired the joint session, and D. W. Gould and the National Sewing Machine Co. severed their connections.
- W. E. McGuire, a Canadian metal-stamping organizer new to the cycle trade, is appointed general manager of the Consolidated Mfg. Co. of Toledo, makers of Yale and Snell bicycles; A. W. Colter continues as treasurer and Edward Buffum as sales manager.
- D. W. Gould resigns as manager of the Pope Mfg. Co.'s Chicago factory to join the staff of Sears, Roebuck & Co., and is succeeded by F. C. Gilbert, hitherto in charge of the Pope plant at Hagerstown, Md.
- United States Consul-General Shanklin reports from Panama that newly paved streets in Panama City and a 16-mile roadway out to the Sabanas open a promising sales field for bicycle manufacturers.
- British cycle exports for February were 5,048 machines valued at $144,590 plus $367,105 of parts, a total of $511,695, lifting the two-month aggregate to $1,032,670 against $737,700 for the same period of 1905.
- Vice-President Hunter appoints Irving R. Hall, of Oak Park, Ill., secretary of the Federation of American Motorcyclists' Western District; Hall is secretary of the Chicago Motorcycle Club, which had endorsed him for the western vice-presidency.
- The Badger Brass Manufacturing Co. of Kenosha, Wis., reports that orders for Solar lamps in the first three months of 1906 were more than treble those of a year earlier, 6,000 more lamps having been sold since 1 January.
- Trade notes: C. H. Winn enlarges his store at Peekskill, N. Y.; fire destroys J. H. Waugh's cyclery at Ukiah, Cal. ($2,500) and Kirk Warner's store at Medina, N. Y. ($800); Smith Bros. of Burlington, Vt., add a bicycle department.
- The Berkshire Cycle Co. of North Adams, Mass., reincorporates as the Berkshire Cycle and Automobile Company with $5,000 capital, electing Anson Williams president, Walter Parker treasurer and Milton L. Ferro secretary.
- Andrew M. Kinloch, whose Paterson, N. J., stock was carried off by burglars last year, re-opens at 272 Straight street carrying Snell and Hudson wheels.
- Lester R. Creutz and George E. Holt of Moline, Ill., will start in mid-June on a business tour awheel across most of the northern hemisphere, going from Liverpool through France, Tunis, Sicily, Italy, Vienna, the Balkans, Egypt, India, Manila, China and Japan.
- J. F. Cox, sales manager of the Pope Mfg. Co., states that 72 per cent of the company's orders to date are for bicycles fitted with coaster brakes.
- Argues that cycle advertising must be aimed at the public and not merely the trade, quoting at length a writer in the Bicycling News and Motor Review who urges makers to back their old names with quality and even to supply agents with phonograph records of advertising matter.
- France halves its bicycle tax, long blamed for the decline of French cycling, from six francs ($1.14) to three.
- Winnipeg's cycle path board, whose secretary is R. D. Waugh, seeks to raise the per capita cycle tax from 50 cents to $1.00 to extend the city's fifteen miles of cycle path; an officer retained to recover stolen wheels has visibly reduced cycle thievery.
- Harry A. Gliesman gives up the presidency of the Tiger Wheelmen, New York City, but is elected financial secretary and treasurer; Charles P. Soulier succeeds him, and the new officers call a five-mile handicap from Valley Stream to Lynbrook.
- Leader holding that the Cycle Manufacturers' Association and the Cycle Parts and Accessories Association have replaced the trade's old mutual suspicion with a community of interest, ending the era of "fizz and fireworks" in cycling.
- Leader on the Cycle Manufacturers' Association's hostility to jobbers and mail order houses, whose "feeler" quotations and hunt for job lots of doubtful spokes, rims, hubs and saddles produce the nameless stripped bicycle.
- Leader commending the club that has abandoned gewgaw merchandise prizes for suitably engraved medals, as a remedy for the blurring of amateur and professional in bicycle racing.
- F. A. M. President Betts finds that the new Virginia Byrd automobile measure does after all cover bicycles, requiring a $2 annual licence, a numbered tag with four-inch figures and speeds of 8 to 15 miles an hour, though it binds only counties whose Boards of Supervisors adopt it.
- Correspondent "The Missouri Kicker" advises hanging the machine from the ceiling by two ropes to avoid backache, then wiping it with a soft cloth dampened with sperm oil, "3 in 1" or vaseline — half an hour a week, and no polish used in ten years.
- Racing calendar from the Revere Beach meet at Boston on 19 April to 30 May, including Roy Wheelmen road races at Valley Stream, the Atlantic Wheelmen's sixty-mile run to Atlantic City, the eighteenth Irvington-Milburn twenty-five-mile handicap and the New York Motorcycle Club's hill-climbing contest.
- The veteran tourist is back from Britain and Brazil with his 1884 nickel-plated 46-inch Columbia ordinary "No. 234 Jr.", having covered 1,880 miles in Scotland and reached John O'Groats on 22 October 1905; he protests a New York paper's claim that he rode in the "hot valleys of lower Brazil."
- William S. Fenn, the Bristol potato grower, signs to ride most of the season at Salt Lake City with eight match races; Kramer's acceptance is unconfirmed, and he meets Friol at the Buffalo Velodrome, Paris.
- Arnst, off 75 yards, won the $5,000 one-mile Sydney Thousand handicap on 23 March in 1:54, from Walter Rutt of Germany on scratch and the Victorian Payne off 90 yards.
- Charles A. Sherwood of the New York Athletic Club, made professional at the National Cycling Association's annual meeting, is expected to be restored to the amateur ranks, while Louis J. Weintz, W. VanIderstine and James Zanes are likely to be allowed to race for money.
- Anzani, attacking the long distance motorcycle record in Paris during a rainstorm, skidded on a turn at over a mile a minute and was thrown high in the air, but he and the machine escaped with trivial injuries.
- The Brooklyn Motorcycle Club takes out incorporation papers to defend motorcyclists' rights and maintain a clubhouse, naming E. W. Carritt, Carroll Leroy Mosher, F. A. Baker, Henry J. Wehman and Charles L. Sammins as first-year directors.
- The Associated Cycling Clubs of Philadelphia elect Thomas Hare of the Century Wheelmen president, H. C. Hochstader of the Americus Wheelmen vice-president, Joseph Estoclet secretary and Joseph Gilbert treasurer.
- James F. "Peggy" Moran, of Chelsea, Mass., sailed from New York to follow pace on Paris and German tracks for the coming month.
- The Pastime Cycle Club is formed at Kingston, N. Y., with S. D. Hornbeck president, J. H. Myer vice-president, W. F. Freer secretary and James H. Austin treasurer.
- Eight riders contested a three-mile motorcycle race at Birmingham, Ala.'s first automobile meet on 2 April, won by a local rider named Jenkins in 5 minutes 1 second.
- The Roy Wheelmen of New York City resolve to offer only engraved medals and trophies rather than merchandise in their 1906 club races, and will not solicit prizes from the trade, refusing to be "classed as a begging club."
- E. W. Goodwin, a Brooklyn motorcyclist, offers a medal of his own design, illustrated here, to the Indian rider unconnected with the Hendee factory who scores most points in 1906 open competition on a 3, 2 and 1 basis.
- Fred Schudt of the Standard Wheeling Club set two armory records at the Sixty-fifth Regiment armory, Buffalo — two miles from scratch in 5:13¾ and five miles in 13:43, beating J. M. Tanner and Edward Delling in a blanket finish; H. S. Sykes took the two-mile final from McCracken and Stiglemeir.
- Describes how to build and use a simple Prony brake to determine a motor bicycle engine's brake horsepower, with a worked example yielding 2.05 horsepower from a 3-pound balance reading on a 2-foot arm at 1,800 revolutions, and a "brake constant" shortcut.
- A new approximation multiplies bore by stroke by impulses per minute and divides the product by 6,500, said to be fairly accurate for motors with an initial compression of 70 pounds per square inch.
- The House Committee on Patents reports back H. R. 15,911 with amendments removing the requirement to describe a trade-mark except where colors are used, and establishing classes of merchandise so that one application need not cost $50 to $75 per class.
- A motorcyclist recounts riding from St. Albans to Rouses Point, N. Y., through Vermont mud so deep his front wheel nearly disappeared, where farmers told him they had filled the holes with four loads of hay that the cattle had presumably eaten.
- Holds that on a long run average speed matters more than spurts, which are apt to cause derangements — a truism the cyclist learned early and one now still more applicable to the motorcyclist.
- A New York bicycle supply house prints a phonetically spelled postal card from a small Georgia town asking for a "caterlog of bicicle supplizes," with a postscript withdrawing the order.
- Spring overhaul guide for the motor bicycle: repairing chafed wiring with terminal loops and electrician's tape, testing battery and coil for short circuits, decarbonising the cylinder and piston head, freeing and refitting piston rings, and grinding valves and adjusting the contact breaker.
- A motorcyclist living where gasolene was at a premium found his engine ran on a half-and-half mixture of kerosene and gasolene, cutting fuel cost in half, though starting on straight kerosene from cold proved difficult.
- A Buffalo thief rode a motor bicycle up to the letter box at the corner of Elk and Hayward streets, unlocked it with a key, emptied it and rode off before the police and post office authorities were notified.
- The Northeast Wheelmen's Racing Association is formed at Frankford with W. S. Gibson president and Wm. Hagaman secretary; its first meet is at the Kensington driving park, Holmsburg, on 21 April, with one and five mile handicaps and a team pursuit between Atlantic City, Camden, Philadelphia and Frankford clubs.
- Acting Chief of Police James Bell asks the East Orange, N. J., City Council for three motor bicycles to mount his men and check reckless driving by motorists in that part of the Oranges.
- A British trade paper's want column carried an offer of a "gent's tandem" in exchange for "a lady's safety and cash, or two ladies," prompting a humorist to murmur about bigamy.
- Buffalo's motor bicycle patrolmen Chisholm and Davis are ordered back on their mounts to take in motorists who ignore the speed laws, their previous season's work having been praised by Gen. William S. Bull.
- John L. W. Page's account, from the March C. T. C. Gazette, of a day's ride from Stromness to Kirkwall past the Loch of Stennis, the Ring of Brogar, Maes Howe and the cathedral of St. Magnus, ending in cramp on the hill back to the steamer.