The Bulletin And Good Roads, Vol 24, No 23
Articles in this issue
- p. 2
Appleton, Wisconsin claims to beat Hudson, New York's boast of being the first town with League membership equalling one percent of population, reporting 1.28 percent of its 14,869 residents are members.
- One of the Old Ones: Essex Bicycle Club
The Secretary of the Newark-based Essex Bicycle Club corrects the recent listing of oldest clubs, arguing Essex, founded June 1878, should rank third.
- p. 2
An Indiana member cites state law making it a misdemeanour for non-members to wear any organisation's badge, arguing this law should be enforced against people who wear the L.A.W. emblem without joining.
- p. 2
A Cincinnati reader describes witnessing a cyclist in Burnett Woods Park suffer a puncture caused by an eight-penny iron nail driven so far through the tyre as to be visible on the inside of the wooden rim.
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The Chief Consul of the Louisiana Division warns members that a man who borrowed $2 on the strength of his League ticket was later discovered to have robbed a Birmingham consul and stolen a bicycle.
- Hard and Soft Tires: Final Verdict
A six-year veteran rider argues definitively that tyre pressure has nothing to do with puncture frequency, but that soft tyres are more prone to rim cuts from stones, and that hard tyres give a better ride.