The Bicycling World, Vol 54, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Preview of the Grand Central Palace automobile show opening 1 December 1906, where seven motorcycle exhibitors—Aurora, Hendee (Indian), Reading Standard, Consolidated (Yale-California), Curtiss, Wagner and American Motor (M-M)—are grouped on the gallery, with G & J showing a new motorcycle tire.
- The Havana Chamber of Commerce urges American makers to register their trade marks in Cuba, where lax law lets a "shark" claim any imported article's mark; registration costs only $12.50.
- The Pope Mfg. Co. is holding back a two-speed coaster brake devised by the veteran inventor James S. Copeland, with no marketing date fixed.
- W. F. Remppis is turning the Reading Standard Cycle Mfg. Co. into a $300,000 Pennsylvania corporation, the Reading Standard Co., with Daniel F. Printz president, Jacob B. Fricker secretary and Lambert A. Rehr treasurer.
- The Gendron Wheel Co. of Toledo, Ohio, also makes boys' velocipedes, miniature express wagons and "automobiles" that suit the cycle dealer bidding for Christmas business.
- The G & J Tire Co.'s new motorcycle tire copies its familiar bicycle tire and wood rim in a two-piece hollow metal rim with a double clinch, made in 2 1/4 and 2 1/2-inch sizes, with factory rim inspection promised.
- Moisture penetrating a cut outer wall reaches the canvas lining and destroys the shoe; running on slack tires lets water past the beads and the filling-tube washer at the rim.
- When ignition misfires and battery, plug, wiring and switch all test right, the contact breaker is usually at fault—dirty, misadjusted or wrongly spaced points rather than any visible derangement.
- Trade changes: the Metropolitan Motorcycle Co. of New York sees L. Foss retire while George Andes continues, and Alfred Guest's store at 712 Avenue D, Jersey City, is damaged by fire with a $1,200 insured loss.
- The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s new clincher uses a removable flange held by a spring steel locking ring, letting a 26-inch tire go on without stretching; S. G. Rigdon and transcontinental record holder L. J. Mueller are demonstrating it.
- An Australian correspondent reports local assemblers doing the bulk of the trade with English components, chiefly B.S.A. pattern, ahead of Massey-Harris, Red Bird, York, Columbia, Tribune, Humber, Rover, Swift and Raleigh machines; free wheels, Bowden rim brakes and variable gears are spreading.
- Editorial arguing that motorcycles and automobiles will not "mix" and that the Grand Central Palace show should not close before the Cycle Manufacturers' Association and the motorcycle makers agree on a joint cycle-motorcycle exhibition.
- Editorial praising Joseph S. Peele, "Little Joe the advertiser" of Tarboro, N.C., who built a bicycle trade on plain, personal advertising copy modelled on patent-medicine testimonials while two older dealers failed.
- A rural German motorcyclist jacked his machine on a stand over a countershaft and ran a second belt to a pump, using the motor to fill a large water tank.
- A warning that a lamp lent to a cycling friend, unlike a book, is seldom returned—cyclists otherwise honourable appropriate them—so never lend one.
- Iver Lawson, near death for three weeks from ptomaine poisoning after eating fresh lobster and thirty-five pounds lighter, writes that he will not meet Frank Kramer in Madison Square Garden during six-day week, killing P. T. Powers's $1,500 match series.
- A San Jose paper reports that a Boston man has "engaged" Johnny Baumgartner and Austin Holdsburg and five Pacific coast riders for a 300-mile international race near Chicago on four-cylinder machines capable of 90 miles an hour.
- Roland Douglas, chairman of the F.A.M. Competition Committee, won all three closed gymkhana stunts at the New York Motorcycle Club's Thanksgiving Day games near Pelham Parkway—slow race in 1:20, potato race 3:25 2/5 and spoon stunt 33 2/5 seconds.
- Adolph Lewin of Brooklyn heads the Century Road Club Association's national century-mileage competition per J. W. Johnston's roads record report, with J. F. Paulson, D. D. Adee and H. Gill close behind.
- The sixteen teams finally entered for the fourteenth annual six-day race at Madison Square Garden, 10-15 December, including the Georget brothers, Petit-Breton and Vanoni, Rutt and McFarland, Vanderstuyft and Stol, Walthour and MacLean, with motorcycle match races run daily.
- William F. Ivy of Boston, riding a Royal Reading, won the Brower Wheelmen's 30-mile Thanksgiving Day handicap from Bedford Rest to Valley Stream against a head wind, beating Joe Eifler by sixteen seconds; Louis J. Weintz of the New York A.C. took the first time prize in 1:24:11.
- Eugene, Oregon's bicycle ordinance charges an annual tax simply to ride after dark; found too exorbitant at eight dollars, it has just been cut to two dollars a year.
- First instalment of New Zealander Stanley Bowmar's account of riding a Merkel from Buffalo to San Francisco, 12 July to 10 November 1906—buying the machine, the run through Fredonia, Erie and Conneaut where dry batteries failed, and on to Cleveland and Chicago.
- Motorcycle racing at Electric Park on Thanksgiving Day outclassed the motor cars: "Chic" Thomas took the unlimited pursuit from scratch over Howard W. Gill and Edward Mangold, and Manager French may drop automobiles altogether.
- The Bay View Wheelmen of Newark opened their home trainer season on South Sixth street, Edward Rupprecht beating Floyd Krebs over an imaginary mile in 59 seconds and J. T. Halligan covering ten miles in 10:50.
- At the Twenty-third Regiment armory games in Brooklyn, L. R. Reynolds took the one mile novice in 2:38 3/5 and H. R. Brown, from 70 yards, won both the one mile handicap and the two mile in 4:54.
- Thomas W. Davis, America's "grand old cyclist," still rides more than 5,000 miles a year in his eighties—but looks young beside Thomas Enstone, a Sandhurst, Gloucester, farmer of 103 who reportedly still rides a tricycle.
- Denver promoters are subscribing successfully for a new bicycle saucer to be built next season in the Tuilleries Gardens pleasure resort.
- Dan M. Adee is renominated for a third term as president of the Century Road Club Association on a slate reported by Charles P. Staubach that shows few changes; the mail vote closes at 10 p.m. on 18 December.
- The Century Road Club's annual birthday dinner falls on 11 December at Terrace Gardens, Fifty-eighth street, New York, with Chairman Paul Thomas seating everyone at one long T-shaped board.
- Renewed cycling interest in Baltimore has produced the Broadway Wheelmen, a pleasure-run club with Arthur S. Waugh captain, Martin Berger lieutenant and Edward Leary color bearer.
- Two costly nuisances for makers: an owner who gummed his Hendee machine solid by lubricating it with linseed oil, and a purchaser in Edward Buffum's Consolidated Mfg. Co. territory who dismantled a new machine and mistimed the contact breaker, then denied touching it.
- A London music hall and vaudeville turn runs motorcyclists round two narrow banked tracks stacked one above the other, each machine towing a cyclist on a heavy leather bridle from a V-shaped arm strapped to the axle nuts and seat post.
- Lester R. Creutz and George E. Holt of the Roy Wheelmen, touring the world by bicycle, describe being received in Glasgow's city chambers by Lord-Provost William Bilsland, who questioned them about their L.A.W. and club insignia and had them sign his visitor's book under "Edward R. and I."
- Sugar Notch, Pa., is sending Peter Shudleskie to the New York six-day race; the town's young men are raffling a $50 bicycle at Morris' hall on 6 December at 25 cents a ticket to pay his training expenses, with Johnny Moran of Buffalo as partner.
- Joseph S. Peele of Tarboro, N.C., raised his sales 600 per cent in nine years by advertising the bicycle as a cure—his own asthma story, then a symposium of local doctors' signed testimonials headed "No matter! What the doctors of Tarboro say about Bicycle Riding."
- The close-fitting parts inside a coaster brake hub suffer from dust and dirt just as chain and sprockets do, only more slowly, so periodic inspection and attention matter more there than elsewhere.
- American engineers visiting Richard Lindenberg's electric steel works at Remscheid Haston, Rhenish Prussia, saw Dr. Paul Heroult's patent electric oven turn the cheapest scrap-iron rubbish into high-grade alloy steel at 90.66 to 100 marks a ton.