CYCLING NOTES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5159, 18 October 1895, Page 3

CYCLING NOTES.

[ill' BLOOMER,") A ram just out from England, tells me that experiments are now beinp made with a view to the adoption of the sliding seat principle to bicycles, It certainly has proved a success as far as boats are concerned, originally with thorn, as with bicycles, one would tliiuk that to get proper leverage, a firm basis was indispensable, I wonder whether anyone in this district has yet tried an auxiliary sail, with his machine. Perhaps someone will be good enough to mako the experiment for the benefit if Wairarapa cyclists in general, ind, if he survives, report tho result to me. On some of our straight and smooth roads there should be no iifficulty in utilising a small nail with juiok-rumiing halliards, so that the :anvas could be lowered in an instant jn the approach of a squnll, or a horse which might take . There's 6omothing in this Fifteen years ago, about 3,000 bicycles were annually produced in England, During 1894, over 60,000 ivere manufactured there, A wooden elevated road, 16ft wide, is proposed to be orected iween Chicago and Milwaukee, for s use of bicyclists, It is said that ,000 wheelmen will patronise it 3very week, Quite an opidemic of bicycling seems to have come over the Northumberland pitmen, In a pit village in that county, of over 9000 people, the clergy find it impossible to got tip a cricket club, so doTOtod aio tho pitmen to 'cycling. A one-legged touring cyclist reently rode down to Newcastle from Hillgrove, He carried on his machine about 7olbs of luggage, iu addition to n cat and dog, who rode in a tent, which was rolled np on the handle bar,