Bicycle notes: snobbery, female balls and dispensing a brake – file, 1895

TNoteworthy is the popularity of cycling among aristocracy. Recent recruits include Lord Zetland, Lady Havelock Allan, Sir Joseph Pease, the Count of Camperdown, the Duke of Westminster and two of the daughters of the late Count of Idesleigh. So far, the only objection he requested against the pastime has been his vulgarity. He was considered the bicycle as the horse of the poor man, and those who sponsored it were considered very common people. The usefulness of the bicycle as a means of transport, its ability to cause harmless and lifting pleasure, and its undoubted health qualities were ignored with the dictates of the fashion world. The said fashion world has suddenly discovered the virtues of the cycle and, ignoring the fact that even the boys in the butcher’s shop can obtain pleasure from the same source, they have taken in numbers. The middle class, a large proportion of which snobs are born, now, now that the only objection is eliminated, will join the ranks in thousands. It will also have an effect on those that are not snobs.

Until many professional and business men have been afraid to present it in public on wheels simply because it would damage them from a business point of view. I have met the leading doctors who have done a practice of climbing in the summer at 5 am, to enjoy a long journey before breakfast simply because they do not dare to appear in public, except in the irreproacable bougham. For this, the bar is being eliminated.

Pneumatic saddle
A paragraph for Lady Riders. A lady says she has found that Guthrie-Hall’s pneumatic saddle is very satisfactory, and that all of her well-known female acquaintances have also tried. I know many men who do not matter to them, but this is next to the brand in the present case. It should recommend to the people of Guthrie-Hall to push it especially for female use.

The use of brake
Except the absolute road race or the record, There is nothing won – I cannot emphasize it too strong, without a brake. From one to one and a half, it is approximately the saved weight, and this is not made in ordinary riding. The decrease in the labor that is undoubtedly observed when the clay guards are eliminated is much more due to the free wheel of the wheel without restrictions than in the small weight of these accessories and, in the case of brake, there is no excuse for elimination. Its retention really adds the speed of the ordinary cyclist, as there are very few riders outside the ranks of experts who care to let a machine work very quickly on a hill if they have no means of checking their speed immediately. It also saves a lot of fatigue in the way they make a decline when long or steep hills are found; There is nothing more exhausting than the eager effort to control the machine by a steep slope that can be too much for the powers at any moment.

Of course, I do not recommend cyclists who have the habit of constantly using the brake; Must be maintained as a last resort and is only used in case of sudden need or danger. But the mere fact of having, should be necessary, brings enormous confidence to the nervous biker, and not all of us are built after Daredevil’s pattern. The fashionable fool of eliminating both the guards and the brake in order to imitate a race class that the biker could not belong if he would, and possibly he would not if he could, he has absolutely nothing to recommend.

The powers of mounting a lady
A correspondent who thinks to follow my route through the valleys of Riable and Lune with a Lady of Easter asks me if I consider the road through Gargrave to Malham too heavy with the hills for the average powers of assembly of a lady and if you can have decent accommodation in the INNN. The last time I went like this I found a good accommodation in a Malham inn, led by Gordale Scar, but in any case there is no lack of good inns. As for a lady in this way, he should not hesitate for a moment. My experience is that the average wheeled woman is as good at Hill’s work as her husband or brother, as she often directs in a much better style, which has a lot on the hill climbing.

Cycling in Hyde Park
Hyde Park’s opening to cyclists under certain conditions will be an advantage for London pilots. From now on, they will be allowed to use it before 10 am and after seven o’clock in the night in “the season” and between the hours of 10 and four at other times of the year. This concession has been won by the cyclists’ tour and will be announced in the subject approaching its bulletin. I trust that the weather is not far away when we in Manchester will be strong enough to insist that the Corporation Corporation Committee gives us similar privileges.

Cheap machines
Again, his voice would rise against cheap machines. They are dangerous to life and limbs, they are heavy for driving and they are not actually cheap. The benefit margin for the highest degree machine manufacturer is really small, and a reduction of a third price is only achieved with the sacrifice of good material and labor. If the riders were happy with 40 -pound assemblies, they could get them cheap and sound at the same time, but with the popular weights of the day, nothing but the best material and labor will guarantee durability. The lower the initial cost of a very light machine, the more dear it will be at the end. The repair invoice will be heavier, it will become a total wreck sooner, and even in good condition, the second -hand sale price will not be half so high that the best grade under similar conditions.