The Bulletin And Good Roads, Vol 24, No 20
Articles in this issue
- Necessity Is the Mother: Improvised Tyre Tape
A Kentucky rider describes repairing a large road cut to his tyre with a strip of rubber held in place by strips torn from his pocket handkerchief, saving himself a ten-mile walk.
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A reader demands League action against cyclists who attach police-alarm gongs to their machines, arguing these are inappropriate and needlessly alarming to other road users.
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A Philadelphia member calls on the L.A.W.'s five thousand local members to protest the excessive daily flooding of city streets by water wagons, which creates dangerous slimy surfaces for cyclists.
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A New York member proposes a two-tier mapping system: one master state map divided into numbered grid squares, with a companion book of enlarged page-sized section maps showing roads, grades, and hotels.
- Marking Up-and-Down Roads on Maps
An Ithaca reader notes that current road maps can show grades but not 'switchback' roads of constant sharp ups and downs, and calls for a new cartographic convention to flag this most tiring road type.