The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-08-19

he VIII have to ride only 20 miles a
day to do this. AS ten miles an hour Is
a comfortable pace that may be kept
up for half "A day without fatigue he
need be in the saddle no longer than
~ hours day.
This Is WHIT a single rider may do,
but as the tourist sc-sC r,.ily perfers COM
pany and rides in party of from two
to ten IN number, some allowances must
be made for unforeseen delays. A small
party of cyclists, however, can readily
make from 80 to so miles each day.
The novice at touring generally finds
two difficult problems that have to be
solved at the outset The first one is
how much and what baggage to carry,
md the second one is how TO find his
way over roads that are entirely strange
| TO him. The baggage question needs
personal experience to be settled salts
factorily. The bicycle luggage carriers
which are made TO fit inside the diamond
| frame have done much to simplify the
matter. 1t is amazing how much one of
| these triangular valises will hold. If
| the wheelman has wisely decided that
| he will wear his ordinary bicycle COS
| tune ON all occasions, he will find that
| all the clothing necessary for an all
summers trip can be put into the car
| rier.
He is sure to find that the one great
necessity is a good supply Of clean under
wear. Four suits are none too many,
and five are better, for a change will be
| required at the end Of each days ride.
| For outside wear, outing shirts are not
so good as sweaters ON long trip, be-
cause they do not look presentable after
| a hard days ride. A sweater, on the
other hand, especially if it is a gray
one, will still look neat at the end Of a
| two weeks trip.
| If the tourist insists on changing &C.
casionally to ordinary street attire, there
| is no way for him to do but pack a va
| lise and express it on to the point where
| he wants it and trust to luck that he
gets it. IF there is a lady or ladies in
| the party this plan will have to be
| adopted anyway. 1t is not good idea
| to load down the handle bars of your
machine with bundles. One trial is al
ways enough for the tourist. The front
wheel was never meant to carry extra
weight. It makes the wheel ''steer
hard and is a nuisance in other ways
The luggage carrier is fastened to the
frame in such way that the weight is
evenly distributed, and it is out of the
way. 1t enables, too, the wheelman to
carry such small articles as toothbrush
es, handkerchiefs, etc., which might
rattle out of a bundle, but which may
| be safely thrown into the carrier.
Then about finding the way. That is
| not so hard matter as you might think.
The L. A W. roadbook should OF
course, be part of the equipment Of ev
cry touring wheelman. But in many
cases his way lies over roads that are
not laid out in the regular tours. Where
this occurs he has to rely on railroad
maps and his own common sense. By
| inquiring his way from one city to the
next he can follow the line of a railroad
for hundreds of miles and be sure that
| he is going by the most direct route. OF
course he will meet local wheelmen who
will tell him that he should have gone
some other way to have taken advantage
of the best roads, but the tourist must
remember that it is not fine riding that
he is seeking always, but new scenes.
A little hard riding he will not mind at
all if he knows that he has to go over
that road but once.
Every trip, by the way; should be laid
out with this idea in view, and the re-