The Bicycling World, Vol 53, No 24
Articles in this issue
- Oscar Hedstrom, designer of the Indian, has evolved a muffler for the 1907 machine that makes the exhaust no louder with the cut-out open than closed; it was demonstrated repeatedly on Mr. Hendee's own mount at the Springfield factory.
- W. J. Surre, assistant secretary of the Corbin Screw Corporation, leaves on the 14th inst. for his annual Pacific Coast trip, carrying the new Corbin two-speed coaster brake to the trade for the first time along with the standard Corbin Duplex.
- Under the new Russian tariff, two-wheeled cycles pay 30 roubles (about $7.50) each, three-wheelers 60 roubles, four-wheelers 160 roubles, and parts 40 roubles per pood, or about $3.60 per pound.
- Having taken the exclusive American sale of Brooks motorcycle saddles, the Hendee Mfg. Co. of Springfield, Mass., now also holds the agency for the full line of Brooks cycle saddles.
- Oscar L. Ellison, 47, of 308 West Forty-seventh street, New York, was arraigned in the Tombs Police Court on a swindling charge brought by Frank C. Howe of 23 West Ninth street, who was parted from $1,300 in a venture imitating Buffalo Specialty's Neverleak tire fluid.
- The Morse Chain Co., pioneers in the production of roller chains for bicycles, has removed its plant from Truamsburg to Ithaca, N. Y.
- July cycle exports jumped more than 20 per cent from $76,355 to $92,671, with Japan rising from $16,988 to $21,658 and the United Kingdom from $10,698 to $16,831; British Australasia showed the month's biggest shrinkage.
- A British rider who paid about $5 for a new chain, free wheel and rear sprocket sued his repairer in a justice of the peace court for the old fittings; the court rejected the cycle trade's custom of retaining replaced parts and found for the plaintiff.
- Recommends French chalk for removing or replacing an inner tube, carried in a small-size sprinkler-top can of the sort used for talcum powder.
- Trade notes: William Peters and H. K. Bates have formed a partnership and opened a store at 118 1/2 West Sixteenth street, Cheyenne, Wo.; the Henderson Bicycle Co. of San Pedro, Cal., was damaged by fire.
- The Wagner Motorcycle Co. of St. Paul writes to G. W. Sherman, sales manager of the Reading Standard Cycle Mfg. Co., agreeing to drop the muffler cut-out from its 1907 model if the other makers can be brought into an agreement.
- At the Hendee factory in Springfield, Mass., the testing stand is bolted to a board laid on two old inflated single tube tires, which act as buffers against the noise and vibration of running a motorcycle indoors.
- The G. H. Curtiss Mfg. Co. of Hammondsport, N. Y., has built a 300-pound experimental propeller-driven vehicle from motor bicycle parts: a 6-foot propeller of 5 feet 9 inches pitch turning 300 revolutions a minute off a two-cylinder V-type air-cooled 5 horsepower Curtiss motor, good for 30 to 35 miles an hour.
- Method for colouring brass blue-black using a saturated solution of copper carbonate in ammonia, about one part in ten by weight, diluted one to three with water and applied to chemically clean metal.
- Argues for the lamp cover, since road dust chokes the ventilators and settles on the wick where the oil turns it to an unburnable paste; covers cost little from any lamp dealer or can be made by the rider from rubber oilcloth.
- F. B. Kennett, or Kemmett, who scoured New England taking Bicycling World subscriptions, also posed as a Federation of American Motorcyclists representative and collected membership fees that never reached F. A. M. secretary H. J. Wehman.
- Backs a New York Times correspondent's proposal that every post office bear the name of the place it stands in, as a remedy for tourists reduced to consulting map and cyclometer or asking a native "Where am I at?"
- Ridicules the theory floated in an English rural district that a seam of ironstone generates a current pushing riders up a hill that is harder to ride down than up, noting the leg and not the eye is the only infallible test of a grade.
- Nearly 5,000 people watched the Muskegon Motorcycle Club's fourth annual meet at Mona Lake Park, Mich., on Labor Day, where Chicago M. C. C. men took all but one prize: Charles W. Van Sickle won the five-mile open and both western championships went their way, while William Walsh was concussed colliding with a pole while tuning up.
- The Providence (R. I.) Motorcycle Club's meet on the Hillsgrove track on the 22nd inst. has been awarded the F. A. M. two-miles national championship and looks likely to be the largest motorcycle tournament of the year.
- The Chicago Motorcycle Club will run the West's first motorcycle endurance contest on Sept. 14 and 15 over a 292-mile F. A. M.-sanctioned course through Oak Park, Aurora, Sheridan road, Waukegan and Milwaukee, with a fuel consumption test; Dr. S. W. Fahrney is committee chairman.
- The Boston Bicycle Club's 423d and 424th called runs started from Roxbury, Mass., and terminate at Cohasset; for the first time the "spread" was served in a large Marquee tent at Massapoag, with the famous Hendrie catering and John B. Kelly, J. J. Fecit and W. B. Everett named to the 1907 committee.
- A boys' bicycle obstacle race over a big pen and a three foot hurdle, one of the gymkana events at the Rockaway Hunt Club at Cedarhurst, Long Island, on Labor Day, was won by R. Chauncey from J. Harper and C. Chapman.
- Fred I. Perreault of Malden, Mass., failed on his fifth attempt at the Boston to New York bicycle record, reaching the city in 27 hours after being thrown from his wheel four miles west of Palmer and temporarily blinded by a tree branch across the eyes.
- At Wheeling, W. Va., on Labor Day both the amateur motorcycle and bicycle races carried a $20 cash purse: Keyser won the five-mile motorcycle event on an Indian in 6:50 and Fred Fredericks the two-mile bicycle handicap on a National.
- Louis J. Mueller, 30 1/2 days out from San Francisco on his Indian, passed Erie, Pa., and expects to reach New York on Sunday, bettering Chadeayne's ocean-to-ocean record by about 18 days; his companion George N. Holden, who fell on August 21st, appears to have retired at Rochelle, Ill.
- Robert J. Walthour beat Tommy Hall and Antonie Dussot, each riding half the distance against him, in a 50-kilometre motorpaced race at the Velodrome Buffalo, Paris, winning by 9 laps in 39:35 3/5.
- Watson J. Kluczek of the Roy Wheelmen took the half-mile amateur championship of America at Vailsburg on Sept. 2 before about 4,000 people, beating George Cameron, Martin Kessler and Charles A. Sherwood; Joe Nelson won the motorpaced race from Johnny King in two straight heats.
- James F. Moran, Elmer J. Collins and Pat Logan, riding as the Irish-American team, won the first 22-hour motorpaced team race, at the Revere Beach saucer, with 538 miles to Boston's 525 3/4 (Stinson, MacLean and Coffey) and New York's 503 (the Bedells and Connolly).
- Leon Sternberg, who had never ridden a race before, won the Century Road Club Association Western division's 100-mile Labor Day handicap over the Chicago-Libertyville-Waukegan course in 7:43:29; veteran William Blum came second from scratch and took time prize in 5:28:26.
- Dan Trotter won both bicycle races at the P. R. R. Y. M. C. A. Labor Day athletic meet in Philadelphia, beating C. Coyle in the half-mile in 1:30 and taking the one mile in 3:52 2/5.
- Charles A. Sherwood, captain of the New York Athletic Club bicycle team, won the two-mile championship at the Vailsburg board track on Labor Day and leads the amateur point ladder with 7 to clubmate George Cameron's 6; a free automobile meet the same day shrank the gate badly.
- Jack Hume of Salt Lake City and J. A. Payment of Denver have secured backing and a National Cycling Association franchise to build another saucer track in Denver, weeks after the city's existing track was torn up.
- James Teague, off a three-minute handicap, won the ten-mile Labor Day road race over the meadow boulevard near Atlantic City, N. J., from eighteen starters, while "Dick" Stroud of Philadelphia took time prize in 24:02 after a battle with local crack Richard Hemple.
- Charles Nerent took first place and first time from scratch in the Roy Wheelmen's fifteen-mile handicap road race at Valley Stream, L. I., in 42:30, beating fellow scratch man C. M. Schlosser by half a length; George Schmoll rested for the scratch men and was third.
- At the Oakhurst Young Men's Improvement Association's Labor Day meet at Long Branch, N. J., Alonzo Wallace of Bradley Beach won the one-mile open, then rode into a baker's wagon and was knocked unconscious with a badly cut shoulder.
- William Beveridge won the one-mile bicycle race at the Labor Day athletic events in Richmond, Va., from Otto Hanks, William Newton and Oliver Hope; no time was taken as the race was held over a straightaway course.
- Frank L. Kramer beat Iver Lawson by over two lengths in the two-mile match race at the Salt Lake City saucer track on Aug. 29 and swept all three races of the series; Lawson then declared he was unfit and that Kramer had beaten a cripple, while Floyd McFarland carried off the honors of the regular programme.
- Henry E. Ducker, veteran cyclist and "Father of American cycle racing," has taken to a French motorcycle after 26 years of pedalling and 100,000 miles on the Columbia; near sixty and living at Albany, N. Y., he thinks nothing of forty or fifty miles after supper.
- G. R. Boyd, on a 2 1/4 horsepower R-S, won Colorado's first motorcycle road race on Sept. 3 over 25 miles out and back on the old Rambler road in 39 minutes; F. E. Shatzer fell heavily in the mud and finished seventh, and Pike's Peak climber Francis W. Davis was third.
- Hugh MacLean, the Chelsea pace follower, sailed from Boston on Tuesday on the steamer Kronprinz Wilhelm and will ride in Paris on the Sunday following his arrival.
- The National Association of Motorcyclists' self-invited "annual meet" at Woonsocket, R. I., drew perhaps 151 people despite free admission; four of the nine programmed events were never run, the promised "special steamer" from New York never sailed, and Ralph De Palma, disqualified for life by the National Cycling Association, was welcomed as an exhibition rider.
- Emergency roadside repairs for a jammed frame: brace the head tube with a long stick to pull the kinks out, work the fork back with hardwood blocks and a wrench, bind a splintered rim with twine, and replace axle nuts with twine wound tightly round the threads.
- The German government's new motor vehicle tax rates horsepower as N=0.3xixdxds, taking no account of speed, which the paper expects to drive German demand toward high-speed short-stroke motors taxed far below their real power.
- Contracts let under New York State's $50,000,000 amendment total over $4,000,000 across more than twenty-five counties, the largest being $133,000 for the 22-mile Utica to Oneida Castle stretch; $178,000 goes to Saratoga County, $31,000 to the Mohawk flats out of Utica and $77,000 to rebuilding the Peekskill-Salem turnpike.
- A bride of thirty, married at St. Peter's Church, Old Windsor, Berkshire, to a benedict of eighty-four, refused the donkey chaise the bridegroom had provided and rode home on her bicycle.
- Weekly patent abstracts: Nels Ahrbin's tire vulcanizing apparatus (826,213), James H. Swain's armored tire assigned to the H. M. & S. Armored Tire Company of Pittsburg (826,490), James A. Swinehart's pneumatic tire (826,623) and Welby C. Waterfield's sectional sprocket-wheel (826,757).