The Bulletin And Good Roads, Vol 24, No 21

Articles in this issue

• The Oldest American Cycling Clubs

  A Boston member corrects Louis Rubenstein's claim that the Montreal Bicycle Club is the oldest in America, listing the Boston Bicycle Club (founded February 1878) as the first, followed by Suffolk, Bangor, San Francisco, and then Montreal.

• A Kick from a Horse in Traces

  An East Braintree rider warns cyclists to give a wide berth to horses in harness after a young horse that had been previously frightened by a bicycle kicked out and destroyed his front wheel.

• Politics and Punctures: Tack-Throwing at the Bicycle Parade

  At a twelve-thousand-strong pre-election bicycle parade in Binghamton, malicious individuals placed card-mounted tacks point-up on the route; one was knocked down by a B.A.A. member and received 'satisfactory' punishment.

• Six Days Shalt Thou Labour: Sunday Cycling Debate

  A Washington government clerk challenges the view that Sunday cycling is socially unacceptable, arguing that working people have no other day free, and that leisured critics overlook this basic inequality.

• That Weak Spot in the League

  A San Francisco member praises the Bulletin as an essential weekly lifeline but laments that no division news or member communication ever reaches California, leaving remote members feeling isolated from League affairs.