The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-12-12
OF INTEREST TO CYCLISTS.
CYCLE PATHS ARE GROWING
IN FAVOR.
Food Consumption-Long Cranks-
Wide Handle Bars-Season for
Care Of the Chain.

The Capital City Wheelmen are still
hard at work upon ways and means to
stimulate more and more the path
building spirit. All honor to the club
for that 1t is worth membership in
1t to every man in the community, for
what it has accomplished and is doing
IN good road, street and by-path work
alone. The county and city is at last
waking up to full realization of what
the club has been preaching and ex-
pending money for so long a time, with
remarkable faith in what could be done
by persistence. For now we have the
phenomenon of a country petition COM
ing in to the Supervisors for bicycle
path and pedestrians walkway on q
leading county road, and the petition
has been granted. Think of it! Such a
thing four-yes, two years ago-would
have excited ridicule if even suggested
Keep on, men Of the C. C. w; stand
by your organization; don't measure its
value by the dollars worth you get out
of it in personal benefits, for you are
sowing for a noble harvest of benefi-
cence, and the reward will pay you in
a sense Of having served your commu-
nifty well.
The amount of food consumed by
racing man during a long-distance race
Us not SO great as one would think. Dur
1ng a six days race recently the WIN
ner practically lived on liquids, during
which time he managed to dispose of
the following: Three and one-half
pounds of rice, one pound Of oatmeal,
pne-quarter of a pound of barley, four
ounces of beef extract fifty pints of
kumyss, one orange, forty-eight apples,
three pounds of grapes, six eggs, three
quarts of barley broth, four quarts of
coffee, and nine quarts Of milk
No Intoxicating liquors of any kind
crossed his lips, and on this modest
diet he covered a distance of 1908
miles.
The Rambler: The bicycle nowadays
gives young people so many opportuni-
ties for meeting one another that
question has arisen among the sober
minded as to whether cycling is not
direct incentive to flirting. We all know
the girl in the club run who always
manages to be left behind, but not
alone; oh, dear, no, not alone. The
girl who thinks variety is so charming
that she changes her escorts day by
day, and as frequently adds a new
scalp" to her girdle. We all know
her, but she is not only to be seen on
the bicycle. This girl will flirt any
where-you will see her in the ballroom,
on the promenade-yes, and even in
church. If she has no opportunities
she will make them. like all her sex.
A New York man has invented de-
vice for stopping a chain-driven wheel
in case of the chain breaking or jump
ing the Sprockets. It consists of an
automatic arrangement near the rear
sprocket,s which is prevented from
acting while the chain is on the wheel,
but is Immediately released by the
dropping of the chain, as would be the
case were it to break or run off the
sprockets. This chain in falling sets
a clutch which stops the rear wheel.
Mr. Balfour recently expressed an
opinion in favor of cycling. He had
undertaken a ride from Cambridge to
London, and on his arrival he spoke of
the invigorating properties of a cycle
ride, and said that he felt capable of
any amount of work after this I'M
usual amount of exercise He said that
this ride, although his first of any
length, would be by no means the last
and he hoped to enjoy many similar
experiences in the future.
There is little or no demand for BIZ
cycles in Portuguese East Africa
There are only a few miles of hard
roads in Lourenco Marquee, and parts
of these are very steep. The remain
ing roads are sandy, and it is an i'm
possibility to ride a bicycle over them.
The majority of the dealers and
riders in Detroit express themselves in
favor Of the movement which has been
started there to have a law passed in
the session of the State Legislature
making it felony for man to steal
a bicycle.
One thousand eight hundred and six
fy-five miles in twenty days is rec
ord journey performed on a motor car
by Messrs. Mouter and Rousseau, who
went to Germany, Austria and Switzer-
land. and visited all manufactures of
motors they came across.