The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-26
BICYCLE BRIEFS.

It is claimed that there are over 10000
tandem riders in New York city.
The coming intercollegiate bicycle meet
in June promises TO WITH 5 lively strug-
gle between Yale and Columbia the latter
winning last year.
American ingenuity leads the world in a
mechanical line. especially in bicycle ma
chinery. according to the great English
technical journal Engineering. The Amer
lean makers have stepped in the field,
reached the top notch. and are at the
present time reaDing rich harvest in
selling at their own price special cycle
making machinery which cannot be pur-
chased from British manufacturers
The bicycle population of New York
city is placed by a newspaper of the me-
tropolis at not less than 100000. If this is
SO. y $ no wonder that the New York
division IS the banner one in the League
of American Wheelmen.
The number 90 cycle paths now COM
pleted and the rumber row IN course of
construction seem wonderful. considering
the fact that three years ago the cycle
path was en unknown thing.
According to ? patent office official,
there are almost as many different kinds
OF saddles patented as there are bicycles.
The bicycle itself IS almost free from
patent. and the public can make any
kind of pattern of wheel they see.
A trial of folding safety bicycles. bicy-
clettes Dliantes. IS now being conducted
by the Belgian military authorities. which
The recent Philadelphia cycle show
must hare been q huge success. Judging
by the fact that a dividend of 500 per cent
was recently declared on the capital
stock of the cycle board of trade which
gave the affair. The stock OF the board
is placed IT $4,000.
An English physician advances the
theory that low-gear wheels are more
dangerous than high-gear machines. be-
cause the slow movement of the leg on
one is less trying to the heart than the
quick action on the other.
i is said that in Paris there is an
International band of bicycle thieves. who
have warehouses for the storage and sale
of bicycles in all of the large towns of
Europe. A bicycle stolen in one country
is sent to another. and the police are
re-e- able to recover it
Last year it is estimated that there
were over 1900 wheels in use in Indi-
annapolis. This year the total is expected
to reach the 10000 mark.
American bicycles are now being sold
l. Arabia. There may not he so much
poetry about the Arab steed of the flu
ture rs there was in the past. but it will
go faster.
T..e Arizona legislature has passed a
bill compelling railroads in the state to
carry bicycles as baggage.
A bicycle room has been set apart in
new hs2h schooi building in Detroit that
will provide accommodations for not less
than 800 bicycles.
The Canadian Wheelmen's association
has asked the Ontario government to en-
act legislation which will place bicycle
paths on the same basis as walks for pc
destrtans.
The road race from Vienna to Berlin
this year will be one of the principal
events OF the year in Germany.
The bicycle racing fever in Australia
must be very great, and not infrequently
there are from $1,000 to $1,000 spectators
In Coolgardie a track was built at an
expense of $500 while the receipts for
the first days races amounted TO S25 900.
The National Cycle Track association
proposes to establish as an annual Gus
tom a mile handicap Sweepstake race for
purse of 5000. the entrance fee to be
divided into four parts of 80. %. IS and 10
per cent TO the first four men. the winners
10 be decided by points. This race will be
ridden in seven heats. one heat TO be
ridden on each of the seven tracks in the
eastern division of the association.
1t is estimated that there are 600 600 BIZ
cycles in the state of New Jersey.
The Cyclists Touring club of England
has offered a prize of 20 guineas tor the
best design of a baggage car adapted for
the safe conveyance of bicycles.