The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-14
WHEEL NOTES.

A REPORT is current that Alfred
McCurdy, Yesterday, rode 3lS miles, on
a star bicycle, in twenty four hours.
GEO. A MEEARs sold his 4s-inch S'ar
70 los Bull. and bought from Barnes *
Davis a 40 inch same sty le and make.
The GREATEST distance ever made on
a bicycle within an hour. was made by
w. A. Rowe. at Springfield, Mass, re
Gently, viz. % miles and $50 yards be
rode a Columbia.
NEwrox FARs. OF Ogden, and Can't.
r. o. Angel. of The salt Lake Bicycle
C,ub. are about placing orders for new
silent stars Mr.. f. g. Brooks vii also
ORDER one next season.
MIxNrAPoLIs, November 13.-Morgan
xon the TX days bicycle contest. max
ing 40 miles and one lap IN the allotted
forty eight hours riding eight hours per
dav- beating be record for this style OF
race oy $50 rliles. Schcck was second
md ten miles behird. Dingley anc
Highman cid not finish. The race vas
Tor gaze receipts.
THsRE mas been some talk among the
members Of the Salt Lake Bicycle Cub.
regarding the giving of a grand bali II
tbe Theatre during tue holidays. COM
bininE the novelty Of bicycle drill and
exhibition. something after the style al
the Demon drill now famous among
gheeimen in eastern cities. We trust
il NAV come % DC .act. Il would, in
! ! ed, be en- interesting and novel enter
ainment.
HrEBEEr PEMBROKE. while east on
his purchasing trip, recently, visited Inc
S NTH Machine Companys works at
Sniihville, y. J., where the Star bicycle
/, manufactured. Mr. Kelly. the fore
man, made il pleasant for him." by
| showing him all the various machines
| ard appliances used in making the
/ many cuiiously shaped parts necessary
for the bicycle, and also an
immense lot of machines III
eourse of construction. The coTpsH!
- the sale o. several hundred
machines last season through not
n,.iug able to ship them 81 once, and
,hi. winter they intend to make up sey
| era thousand ready for The riding sea.
ION next spring. Pembroke says they
nave three large floors and several hun
irsd men employed on cycles alone.
| lie had the pleasure OF se-icg the new
team tricycle. lately constructed at the
works, and says il is q great curiosity.
! While there ne made an exchange OF his
5I-inch machine for a smaller Us -inch)
with some Improvements recently
added.
The Why serious fall recently sus-
tanned BY Niels Rasmussen while riding
! on the sidewalk in front OF the Dever-
euX house, "a very good, smooth walk
usually, has given the anti-cycling fra
ternity an opportunity to speak OF the
danger of bicycling, and as usual they
speak of il in the abstract. as though
the bicycle itself was an unusually
| dangerous thing that should be
abolished. Although very careful
riders sometimes take a fall, We
find that in most instances the
cause lies in the rlder's carelessness or
recklessness of riding. Whether this Is
the case with Mr.. Rasmussen in the
present instance, We do not know, but
| we do know that the gentleman has al
ways been fast and reckless rider, and
it has been a cause for wonder among
wheelman he has not sooner had q
severe fall. The writer has often seen
him dash over roads so rough that even
a Star rider would feel need OF
caution. We venture the assertion
that q cautious bicycle rider will ride
| zach thousand miles with as few seri-
Gus falls as the average horseman will
experience in riding the same distance
on 4 horse. We have seen Messrs.
Davis, Taylor, the Angel boys and
others dismount time and again to
walk over spots Of rough ground which
they might have ridden, but were too
cautious to take any risks. In fact they
walked because they knew they could
ride over. but preferred to leave the
Glory of such achievement to fresher
n iers who found out, too late, alas that
they couldn't. Like gunpoWder, like
the steam engine. the horse, and many
other things Of use to mankind, the
bicycle may be made thing Of extreme
usefulness or of corresponding evil, but
in SO cases out OF a possible 100, the
rider and not the cycle causes the evil.