A CYCLIST’S TRACK

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6812, 7 May 1909, Page 8

A CYCLIST’S TRACK

In connection- with the art of tracking,’ so useful in scouting, Mr Theo. Ford, of Euroa, sends me a printed slip, with diagram, which he prepared for tho local detachments of the Australian Light Horse (says Mr Donald Macdonald in the Melbourne _ “Argus”). He shows how you can toll the direction in which a' cyclist is riding from the .tracks in the, mud or dust. . ' In a straight-ahead ride the two wheels make only one track. If-the rider, as frequently happens, has occasion to swerve quickly from , any impediment, tho front, wheel, swings out tharply, but tho bind wheel (with the weight of tho rider bearing upon it) does not turn so far, so .thaffjy ou have two tracks the front wheel. making a sort of loop in the track. They come into line gradually again, so that the loop is widest where the front wheel left tho ordinary riding track, and gradually narrows into a jingle track. Tliat inclination points the direction in which the cyclist islriding. There are other .signs, i If you ride over a sharp ridge or obstacle tho track is always wider when you have crossed, because the tire flattens, out in coming down with a bump.