Biking notes: dashing machines and rim injury – archive, Might 1899

Perhaps essentially the most audacious piece of proof ever adduced by a police constable in proof of the speed of cyclists charged with livid driving was that sworn to by an officer final week at Kingston upon Thames. He testified that he caught maintain of the backs of two machines concurrently, and introduced them to a standstill, whereas they had been going 14mph. Such proof, if it proves something, proves that the riders’ velocity was nothing like 14mph. It will be inconceivable to cease one such bicycle owner on this method, to say nothing of two.

The Dean of Hereford has expressed himself in favour of Sunday closing for precisely the alternative purpose to superior by the Ruthin Rural Council in its memorial to the licensing authorities. They argued that closing of inns would diminish the quantity of Sunday biking visitors. The Dean of Hereford needs public homes to be closed as a result of he wish to see the publicans having fun with the recent air and the nation on their bicycles on the Sabbath-day as an alternative of being compelled to stay within the environment of the general public home. The reason being not very convincing, because it presupposes that each one innkeepers are essentially busy all day on Sunday, as an alternative of at sure hours solely, and in addition implies that the one alternate options are bar-tending and biking.

There nonetheless appears to be an impression in lots of quarters {that a} rim brake is prejudicial to the rim. Even when this had been so, it’s higher to have the rim broken than the tyre. However an bizarre first-class rim is not going to be injured by the brake-blocks performing upon it. These will step by step put on away and require renewal, however the rim is not going to endure within the least. The wear and tear of the edges is so infinitesimally small that after a number of 1000’s of miles it’s not obvious to the attention.

A lot remark is all the time raised when a bicycle owner collides with a pedestrian and rides off to flee the difficulty of any inquiry. Inhumanity of the identical kind has occurred when cyclists have been the victims, not the aggressors. It’s the extra welcome, subsequently, to report an instance of a bicycle owner taking all the difficulty he may after caring in an accident. The rider on this occasion was in Southampton, and was the sufferer of an incident that nobody is ever fairly secure from. Just a little little one immediately stepped from the pavement into the street and not using a look to see if something was close to. She was knocked down, and the bicycle owner without delay carried her off to the infirmary, the place her leg was found to be damaged, after which himself reported the accident to the police.

Within the first variety of the brand new collection of The Hub, which has been enlarged and has a brand new and creative cowl; there’s a carefully reasoned argument reiterating the essential undeniable fact that capability to climb hills relies upon way more on the gear of a machine than on its weight. That is completely true. The distinction between a 251b machine and a 35lb machine is in any case however a small fraction of the overall weight of the machine and rider mixed, which whole weight is a measure of the work to be carried out in opposition to gravity in hill-climbing, and the high-geared featherweight will probably be a far inferior hill climber to the full-roadster cycle geared a number of inches decrease.

The Nationwide Cyclists’ Union convention of membership secretaries on the query of cycling-polo has been held, and it now stays for the Basic Committee to sanction the provisions. Amongst them it’s agreed to undertake the Irish Affiliation’s guidelines of play, as initially conceived by Mr RJ Mecredy, whose enthusiasm within the recreation has had an important deal to do with its fashionable growth. The Irish code features a very stringent “offside” rule, rendering collisions virtually inconceivable, and the choice recreation as performed at Sheen House is taken into account way more harmful, although maybe extra thrilling for the onlookers. Cycle-polo is a recreation that requires a great deal of talent, in addition to a correct area for matches. This latter want might rely in opposition to its growth in districts the place recreation grounds with particular lodging should not accessible.