The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-07-02

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England he said to reporter. 'The
refusal of the National Cycling Union.
the ruling body of England, to give me
license TO compete in the championship
events was thoroughly unsportsmannke-
They gave me provisional license pro-
hibiting me from riding a certain wheel,
IN which / am interested. This license
expired on June z, and when they re-
fused to renew it, L decided to come home.
have bunch of letters and kilograms
from prominent English wheel clubs,
offering to run races without the sanction
OF the union, if / would remain IN Eng
land and compete. This declined to do,
because went to England for the cham
plonship. ] competed in ten events, nine
scratch and one handicap, and won all
ten. Sanger was in tip-top shape. am
not surprised he has broken records.
English records are easy to break. Ii
Osmond wishes to race me he may have
chance at the Worlds fair meet"
FEW DoET's.
Don't fail to take the number OF your
bicycle on purchasing.
Don't break up your crate or send your
! wheel anywhere uncrated.
Don't attempt TO repair or let others do
so unless competency is assured.
Don't forget to oil all bearings occas-
ionally and keep the chain clean.
Don't leave pneumatic tire wheel of
any kind standing Tor weeks at time.
Turn the machine upside down. Rubber
will deteriorate quicker when at rest
than when in use.
THE BICYCLE IN 1893.
The bicycle of 1893 will be built on very
much the same lines as the safety of 1888
1 II. e., with two small wheels very nearly
of a size. This was the plan of the first
machine, built in 1917, and now, after a
lapse OF seVenty-six years, We have come
| back to the original design. A machine
on this plan can be built stronger and
lighter than on any other model. With
the weight between two wheels there is
less vibration than when 1t is over either
one OF them, as in passing over an OBJ
struction the weight is lifted only half the
distance in the former case that it is to
he latt er.
Then, by the use OF some alloy OF greater
tensile strength, weight for weight, than
steel and by flling the tires and the tubes
in the framing with hydrogen instead Of
air, the weight OF road machine will be
lreduced to ten pounds or less, While rae
ing machines viii not weigh half that
much. The machine will also be made sc
that it can be folded up and carried about
or slowed away in some corner. By i'm
provements in the construction of The
bearings of moving parts friction will OF
almost wholly eliminated, and the method
of applying power will be SO perfected
that there will be absolutely no sucf
thing as lost power.
The roads will be prepared especially fo
bicycles, the grades being very slight and
in fact, only sufficient to provide prope
drainage. The surface will be hard ant
smooth, the outer edge of all curves beins
raised as on a race track. The roads vii
be kept clean, as by that time the hors
viii be found only in geological gardens
The improvement in the rider will b.
equally marked. From the continued
and increasing use of the wheel a race o
people will be evolved that will take t,
cycling as readily as a foreign immigran
to politics. Taking all these things int
consideration, we may expect an averag
speed of thirty miles an hour on the roat
and sixty miles an hour on the track
The use of the machine viii be univeral