The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-02-05
OF INTEREST TO CYCLISTS.
BREAKFAST AND WHEEL Elk
ERCIsE-LONG CRANKs.
Jimmy MichaeI-C1ub Uses-C. A
G. G. Membership-The L.
A. w. Convention.

G. G. Membership-The i.
A. w. Convention.
In a. number of cases in London late
ly cyclists have recovered damages for
injuries, to themselves or their ma
chimes, proved to have been caused by
the negligence either of drivers or of
pedestrians. There is little doubt that
the unreasonable prejudice entertained
by some people against cyclists is grad
ually dying out, and all good wheel
men should do what in them lies to
gain the good will of the non-cycling
public. In cycling, as in driving. it is
no proof of skill to attempt to pass
everything on the road, and there is
little doubt that many accidents would
be avoided if cyclists would refrain
from taking unnecessary chances in
crowded traffic. There are, of course,
many of mature experience who fully
recognize the risks unavoidably in
Cured when riding, and they would be
the first to ridicule the folly of show
ing off'' by cutting in and out among
the vehicles; but to younger cyclists
and to women who may not long have
riding is good counsel.
ct have heard Of people whose great
delight is to take long spins before
breakfast, and not only that, but go
about for days Dragging of the fact
says a physician who is a rider him.
self. ct has been. SO. often proved by
the medical faculty that this pre-
breakfast exercise is distinctly injuri-
Gus that, one wonders that any one can
still be found to advocate so senseless
a practice. If through stress of bust
ness, the cyclist must take his spins
at a time when cocks crow, and the
early morning milkman is on his round,
we would earnestly advise him not to
go forth without first of all thinking
of the inner man. Instead of benefit,
injury is likely to accrue from the ex-
pertinent or practice"
Long cranks and high gears still form
a fruitful topic of discussion among
engineers and those who claim expert
knowledge of the subject. Among those
who have contributed to the contro-
versy is a well-known foreign manu-
facturer, and his letter, stripped for
the most part of all bewilder .techni-
calities, is interesting. In a matter of
this kind, physical aptitude and adapta-
bility must go long way toward set
Ting the theories involved.
1t is refreshing for a cyclist to be
stopped in midroad and requested by
a policeman to ride on the footpath!
A Dublin cyclist had this experience
lately, according to the Irish Cyclist,
and he kept his course unmolested till
the confines of the city were reached
There was an explanation, however.
1t was during the heavy floods, and
most of the roads We're covered with
water This particular thoroughfare
had developed a deep subsistence some
where as well, and to prevent vehicles
and bycicles being swallowed up in its
depths, the police turned out az a dan
ger signal, and deliberately directed
cyclists to break the bylaws regulating
the traffic on footpaths.
At a meeting of workmen lately dis
missed from the cycle works in Vienna,
it was declared that, owing to over
production, a crisis had broken out in
the Vienna cycle trade.
Irish cyclists are agitating for fairer
conditions for city cycling. The Irish
Cyclists Association has approached
the Lord Mayor and Councillors of Dub
lin on the subject
The use of sheet steel stampings in
England is not SO general as might
have been expected from the changed
attitude of makers, but there are many
logical reasons why this should be so,
and in another year those who are in
innate with the trade predict there will
be a. boom in American fittings. Eng
lish makers tried to turn out an ac-
ceptable quality of sheet steel stamp
ings some years ago, but partially fail
ed and discarded them, going back to
malleable castings as more feasible, If
more cumbersome and ugly. The pro-
cess was then taken up in the United
States, studied carefully and brought
to thet perfection it is noted for to-day.
makers gave up in disgust-they learn
ed how to make pressed work out Of
cold rolled sheet steel, and succeeded in
turning out an article just as strong
and just as light as malleable cast
ing But the delicate ethical point of
taking back to England a process or
iginally experimental with there and
brought to perfection in America must
not be overlooked in accounting for the
hardness with which English dealers
have taken up with it.
Club interests all over the country are
reviving. 1t is being discovered what |
their firm friends all along knew that
they are, rightly directed, powerful and
benefcent influences in any community
Cycling interests will always need the
club; road interests look to the wheel |
club for organization, persistency and
hard work; good streets and care of
streets have been greatly promoted by |
cycle clubs; genteel racing is preserved
by the club; path construction depends /
upon club energy and perseverance. |
Fact is, the people should support the |
wheel clubs in public interest.
President Nippert, the new executive |
chief of the California Associated Cy-
cling Club, promises to be the right |
man for the place. He is making |
special effort to build up the individual |
nbership of the association. He
should be aided by all wheelmen. The
individual membership of the C. A. C. |
c.. like that in the L. A w., is the
spinal column of the whole concern. /
Every wheelman ought to send in his
application, receive the map road book, I
hotel tour privilege card and the "Cy |