The record-union., 1899-04-10
members visiting the Continent on tour.

members visiting the Continent on tour.
OF the 45,000 population in one New
Zealand town there are about 5000
cyclists who enjoy the good roads OF
the country. English wheels and
double tube tires predominate, although
the few good American bicycles that
have been imported by dealers have
found favor. According to a corre-
spondent, 1t is a good field for high
grade machines.
According to an alleged expert, tire
shows it's greatest resiliency at an in
fiation of twenty-seven and half
pounds of air pressure to the square
inch. The rebounding qualities are
practically the same at forty pounds
as they are at twenty pounds pressure;
the tests were made by dropping the
inflated tire six feet and measuring the
rebound. Riders who are desirous of
getting the full advantage of the use
of pneumatic tires will keep them in
fated as near twenty-seven and a half
pounds pressure as is consistent with
the safe carrying of their weight.
Although Devonshire claims to have
held the first cycle parade, this honor
belongs to Liverpool, as it was there,
in 1890, that the first official cycle
parade was organized. This has now
become an annual affair, and the local
charities have benefited considerably
thereby.
In Berlin paper appears the fol-
lowing: "a student of medicine desires
to exchange a well-preserved skeleton
for al bicycle of the latest pattern
"A German physician states that
cycling is a cure for diabetes.
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Bicycles are to be employed in the
japanese army.
President H. B. Plant, who built the
Belleair track, near Tampa, is inter-
ested in Havana property, and his New
York agent is looking up track archi-
tects for the purpose of getting esti-
mates on a cement track in Havana for
bicycle riders.
1t is among the possibilities that a
race meet will be held on the Panama
track, at Jacksonville, at the National
Assembly in that city next February.
Races were held in Jacksonville the en-
tire winter last year.
New York Tribune: If America can
improve the motorcycle, there seems to
be no reason why it should not prove
successful and popular here The
League of American Wheelmen would
be entirely justified in declining to re-
cognize records made through its as
istance, just as it was right in declin-
ing to recognize the locomotive-paced
ride of Anderson or the down-the-
mountainside of Green, and all the rest
of the freaks, but it would decrease the
cost of pacemaking to one-tenth, and
make it possible to promote match races
between good men in cities that now find
it impossible to stand the pressure of
expense. After all, that is what is de-
sired. If motorcycles can be success
fully used for pacing purposes-and
they are used abroad-it will best bring
out the relative merits of the contest
ants, as many a good man is lost in a
race these days because of the inferi-
ority of the pacing furnished him, while
with motor pacing his full capabilities
can be brought out, many of the ma
chimes being capable of covering from
thirty to forty miles an hour. 1t will
be the motorcycle that will redeem
paced match racing in America, if any
thing does. Heretofore the organiza-
tions which have spent thousands of
dollars in the promotion of match races
have lost heavily. 1t will be hard to
find an "angel'' in view of this fact,
and unless motorcycles are engaged in
the sport paced races will be the ex-
ception to the rule.