The record-union., 1899-06-10
OF INTEREST TO CYCLISTS.
REFUSAL OF THE UNATTACHED
TO AID WHEELWAYS.
The Relay Race-New Club Rooms
"A Pacing Machine-Good
Roads Work.

! There is huge disgust among the Cap
lital City Wheelmen. After laboring for
NEARLY three years to make the Folsom
wheelway as nearly perfect as possible
and putting into it over 1000, the
clubs committee now finds itself short
Of funds To meet the deficiency the
club ordered $50 handsome wheel
badges from the East for unattached
cyclists One dollar each is asked for
! them, and they are good until June,
1900. They are ornamental and indi-
cate that the wheel owner has contrib
uted his or her mite to the wheelway
cost. But not twenty of these wheel
badges have been taken. All efforts to
sell them seem to be futile Since they
arrived actual count gives the figure of
1000 unattached wheelmen as having
passed up and down the wheelway, and
only six of the lot had badges on their
wheels The club is thus in the posi-
| ton of having built a fine wheelway for
public use and the users refuse to con-
/ tribute to the cost. It is seriously con-
templated to plow UP the path and let
the thing go. Why not? If the public
do not wish to pay for it, why should
the public have it? One thing is GER
tain--the cold selfishness of the present
refusal to help will kill wheelway build
ing by club effort. The path to Auburn,
| to Gait, to FreepOrt ETC., are now out
of the question, except built by taxa
| ton, and for that the public may ex-
pect to wait for an age. The only thing
that can restore confidence is for those
who use the present path to step up
and take the badges. Club members
will no longer put up all the money
the limit has been reached.
The c. c. W.-Olympic relay race for
the Fourth of July it is feared has been
killed off by the park having been given
to other uses, picnic and games by an
association. This knocks the wheelmen
out, if present report is true, and the
c. c. w. men instead will go over to
Reno and engage in the relay race
there.
The c. C. w. people are greatly
good reason they have to be. 1t is neat,
roomy. convenient, and a complete
wheelman's home.
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The San Bernardino "Times-index"
says: The steps taken by the wheel
men last night toward organizing the
wheelmen of the county in order to Sc
cure the betterment of the roads and
the rights to which whee1men are en-
titled, is a move in the right direction.
At the present time more people travel
on the roads on bicycles than on horse
vehicles. Still the bicycle receives but
little consideration from the majority
of those in charge of road work. The
money of the taxpayers, half at least of
which is paid by those who ride wheels,
is all spent without regard to bicycles.
To make their influence felt the bicycle
tmen must organize and show their
strength, and then the Board of Super
visors and City Trustees will hasten to
work in their interests. The road STU
perintendents who are inimical to the
interests of wheelmen will be suppressed
Ted by those who are not. The Times
Index" has for some time urged the i'm
iportance Of having men who are wheel
men in charge of road work. The or
binary road superintendent has never
ridden a Wheel and he looks upon it Al.
a senseless fad, and instead Of trying
to make the roads easy for wheelmen he
adopts just the opposite course. The
way for the iWheelmen to. change this
Ething is to organize and assert their
tstrength.
| These are my two hobbies, and they
run well in double harness-cycling and
photography, said a prominent wheel
man yesterday. Have you ever thought
how nice it would be to take home with
you pictures of some quaint village you
! come across, or of some particularly
| beautiful bit of scenery? How pleas
ant to turn over the album and recall
| happy times spent with pleasant COM
panionls amid scenes new aud strange.
When one considers this phase Of cy-
| cling one can only wonder that so few
wheelmen take up the cult of the cam
era"
| The number of cyclists who will this
year ride chainless wheels shows a
large increase over that of last season.
Thus far few amateurs have taken to
| the new idea, but many professionals
have signif1ed their intentions to ride
| the chainless. In the case Of profess
SIGNALS there is always a cash consider
alton to affect the choice OF wheel. If
professionals are willing to risk their
chances of winning purses on the speed
to be got out of this style of mount
they cannot think them slower.
| The racing rules Of the l.. A. W., as
amended for this year. show some i'm
portant changes. The championships
| will NO loy, no M q do ridiculO1c NV the