Cycling Notes.

Southern Cross, Volume 2, Issue 37, 8 December 1894, Page 9

Cycling Notes.

The monthly meeting 1 of the 1:0.C. was held on Friday, Ist December, when a lot of business was got through. It was decided to challenge the Otago Cycling Club to a team race at Invercargill, to take place about February next. It is hoped to make this an annual fixture. The distance will probably be about 25 miles, and the team who scores the most points wins. The City Guards Band have finally decided to have their annual picnic at Wilson’s Crossing on Boxing Day, and will hold a bicycle race from the Crossing to the Wallacetown Junction and back—about 20 miles. The entries have to be made by Tuesday, 18th December, and forms can be obtained from Messrs Jones or Godward. The prizes are of a valuable and useful nature, the first being a cyclometer, second a holophote lamp and third a pair of racing pedals. The officers of the band are to be heartily commended for taking the matter in hand so thoroughly, and it only remains for all riders to roll up and enter, so that the band will not be out of pocket by their enterprise. The track is uow almost completed, and will be ready for training purposes early next week. The contractors have done their work well, and the Club may be proud of having a track which is superior to many of those owned by much older clubs in the colony. One good point about it is the splendid banking at the corners. There is now no danger of running off the track and disappearing over the bank, as is sometimes done if the corners are too flat; another feature is the wide straight, where there is plenty of room for several riders abreast without any fear of running into each other or the fence.

I am sorry to say I cannot compliment the members of the 1.0. C. on their attendance at club runs. There are generally about half -a - dozen riders turn -out, and nearly always the same ones. There is nothing tends so much to promote good feeling in a club as to have a large muster and a good spin into the country. It is also very discouraging to the officers and those who do roll up to see so little apparent interest taken in the welfare of the Club. 1 hope in future to see all who can get away turn up at the post office at 2.30 on Wednesday afternoons, and all join in making the club runs a pleasant means of spending a few hours in the country.

I would advise cyclists coming in from the East Road cemetery at night to keep a sharp lookout for such trifling little obstacles on the footpath as old kerosene tins and boulders, as a good many of these have been found on the road of late when it was just getting dark. If the culprits are caught I hope they will be made an example of on the spot in such a manner as will put a stop to such dastardly tricks for the future.