The record-union., 1896-05-10


strange countries, has started for that
part of the world He will finish his ride
at Irkutsk With good fortune, he will
reach there by first travelling along the
northern boundary of Holland to Ham
burg. From there he will make for ST.
Petersburg, and thence to Moscow
From Moscow he will cross the Ural
Mountains and over the Siberian tab Bile
lands to Omsk, and Kranoiarsk thence
tc Irkutsk.
The distance covered will be about
5000 miles, and the rider expects that
he will be all of five or six months in
making the trip. But this is as nothing
compared with the &c, 900 mile ride of
Tom Winder last. year, when he made
the circuit of the United States a-wheel.
The accused, an editor, was the first
witness sworn ait the Coroner's inquest.
The deceased came in," he said, 'in
buoyant health. AS 1 remember dis
tinctly, he wore white wool sweater
with L. "A. W. across 1t in red letters, a
gray cap and dark blue knickerbockers
with golf stockings.
He said he had a joke. I took the
joke and read 1t. 1t was about man
who became infatuated with bicycling
that the wheels in his head gave his
friends that pneumatic tired feeling.
After this 1 remember nothing
Amid the loud sobbings of the office
boy, the twelve good men and true re-
turned atverdict of suicide in the first
degree" without leaving their seats.
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Nothing but persistency has enabled
woman to enjoy fair share of cycling s
pleasures. Proceeding on her way
awheel, regardless of prudish opposi-
ton, the wheelwoman has overcome
first criticisms by making customary
what was ridiculed in the first instance
solely because it was not customary.
Taking omne ignata pro horrible has
always been a habit of the masses in all
countries and in all ages. 1t is a poor
driver who does not turn his horses
eyes squarely on the thing which the
animal has been shying. This is exactly
what the wheelwoman has done with
the public, and by it she has won, as
she we'll deserved to do.
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In discussing the proper weight of BIZ
cycles for road riding the Belfast "Cy-
cling Journal says: The highest ma
chine is not necessarily the fastest, and
this is particularly noticeable in the
case of path racing mounts. We have
tried racing machines scaling twenty
pounds and less which were not nearly
so fast as others weighing twenty two
pounds and over, owing to their lack
Of 1-srr t. q
who employ the highest class workman,
and who have had long experience, who
can turn out really serviceable light
weight machines. Avoid cheap, light
weight jiggers."
DON'T make any sacrifice to secure
lightness of the wheel. Lightness means
less rigidity.
Don't fail to remember that those
ahead cannot hear You coming unless
you ring your ben.
Don't imagine you are an expert until
you can manage the wheel without put
ting your hands. on the bars.
Bicyclers will no longer have occasion
to express a wish for eyes in the back OF
their heads. One of the dangers of the
wheel has been the liability to meet in
jury from behind. Now a bicycle mirror
has been patented which will enable the
rider to keep his eye on the road behind
him. This is really very important, for
there is danger from that quarter as
well as from in front of him, especially
for the novice. A bicycle rider is never
safe from a runaway horse coming UP
from behind at three-minute gait.
The doctor told Susan Jane Cough
To take to the wheel for her cough.
She couldn't get on
Without aid from her John,
But she needed no help TO get off.
I'll never go riding on a tandem with
another girl as long as 1 live, there
now"
why not, pray?"
If you sit on the rear seat, nobody
| can see you; if you si, on the front one
| the other girl does nothing but talk be-
hind your back"
A flood of condemnation is now being
directed against the practice of carry
ing babies on bicycles It is not re.
called that any child has recently beer
hurt as a result of this custom. vet the
| thought of the possibility of accident
causes the average woman to grow
faint, and every father, unless he be q
cyclist, to shudder.
Wheeling is such fad in New York
| that even the members of the Michau,
Club, the swellest cycling club in the
! ranging for tours to points covering
two or three days run. The long run:
are giving cyclers new idea of loca
| geography.
| Snooks loaned his bicycle to a FRIEND
| for an evening spin. A few days after
| ward he called around for it, and fount
his friend about to mount 81 say, ole
| fellow" said Snooks, Il came for m,
machine" Very sorry, but l can't le
you have it back now, am just startins
out for a ride" But what am to do fol
wheel?" do? Why, just as 1 did
borrow one
| How sharper than a serpent's tooth,
To have your better half
| Your cycle lend to bloomered friend.
| Who of her awkwardness gives proof
! By hair-brained coasts, by buttins
posts,
| Inviting all miSchance, forsooth-
| Then giving you the laugh.
|
No man or woman can thoroughly ap
| 81,
having come in active contact with it