Sifting Through the Sands of Time

Cycling Notes

Many a fellow owes his good health to-day to the bicycle.

The bicycle has been one of the main factors in the good roads movement.

The professional promoters in this country this year will use motor pacing machines to a large extent.

The wheel has done more than anything else to get people out of doors and acquainted with nature as seen in the country.

There has been a marked diminution during the past two years in the value of the export of bicycles from the United States to foreign countries.

A chemical compound of India rubber has been made by a Philadelphia man to be used as a filler for pneumatic tires. The inventor thinks he has solved the problem of solid tires.

The Touring Committee of the L. A. W. reports that it has received scores of requests for routes, and that the department is one of the most popular with the members in the League.

Millions have been made in the manufacture of bicycles, but thousands of persons have been benefited in health, something that is worth more to them than the dollars they paid for their wheels.

A Canadian has fitted a motor to a sleigh for ice sleighing. The motor operates a spiked wheel set between the rear runners, the front ones being used for steering. The rider sits and drives as in a motor quadricycle.

The habits of self-reliance and quick action are not capable of high class cultivation in every person, but, no matter how badly one has been slighted by nature in her distribution of these qualities, bicycling will develop them.

If any proof of the popularity of cycle racing this year is needed it may be found in the fact that more than 500 cycle racers of both the amateur and professional classes were entered for Memorial Day in the vicinity of New York City.