CYCLING.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 292, 8 December 1900, Page 4 (Supplement)

CYCLING.

The race meeting of the East Melbourne Club, St.? Hilda, on November 24th, was marked by a series of accidents. Green, the English-crack, and Parsons each broke an arm, Goodson dislocated an arm and some fingers, and a number of others sustained se< A*ere injuries. The scratch men in the' Austra] Wheel Eace are: . Chapman, Yaughan, Lawson and Martin (America), Green (England), Beauchamp, Gordon, Fred Hunt, and Walne. Forbes is on the 20yds mark, Chamberlain, of Birmiiighiim, England, on the 30yds, and Body; on the 40yds. The League of New South Wa'le| Wheelmen has withdrawn, from the' Commonwealth Celebrations Cycling Committee, and has asked the Govern-' ment to grant a sum. of money to cover expenses, or to guarantee any loss on a race meeting for League riders only, which it is proposed to run lii connection Avith the celebrations. ' ' ■ ' ' ■ -. • The New South Wales.Government has agreed to pay half the cost of construction of a -20-mile cycle path from Manly to Bay View, The path. Avill be made of clay and gravel. , , '•' Although the action of the wired-oii tyre has been explained thousands of times, one frequently . comes across riders tugging* and Straining at the wires of a Dunlop tyre, unaware that there is any other Way of getting .tlie cover off. 'The shape oLthe. Dunlop. Welch rim is not an accident. It is designed so that the -wire may drop into the bed of the rim on one sidiv and thus bulge out on the other, ;H the rider will press the wire do\v_ into the rim on the side'opposite-tn* valve, then run the fingers round to keep the AA>ire in the bed,.he will fijj d the cover projecting1 on the opposite side, and ready to be lifted, not pulled off. Except in those rare instances which only prove a rule, it is neve? necessary to use brute force to gett-je mult-flex Dunlop cover off- ",.- We do not know. Avhat motor-paced racing is out here. The motors they use in France are like engines, ana the tricycles used for record-breaK". ing purposes are masterpieces hi JM way of shelter. The game is hotkey; not so much as *t;egards the: _i<*ef*V but the pacing motors that the Parisian manufacturers keep, building.-..1 ,is an expensive and worrying^ job *°T I the paced rider*, to compete'in tjsL j matters. They -must .have OA$& i machines or else they have no eha -^ lof victory. As. for the paced r»<# s|r ! well, imagine 14 starters, in a p»« \ race, each having a couple °. ~ro. uL jto pace him, and one can guess i rest, A rider must have a f ?WM ! nerve to compete in such a conte ;• The starting of so many riders:.»^ pacing machines in a race aYi"-L marks an exchange) lead to a tern.» accident some day.