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  2. WHEEL NOTES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 3,848 words
  3. DEAR TIRES.

    Amongst the component parts of bicycles which have greatly enhanced their costliness pneumatio tires (says the "Field") are conspicuous. The pneumatic tire is indispensable, to all ...

    Article : 427 words
  4. OVER OILING.

    So many bicyclists have been observed recently suffering from clogged chains (says the "New York Post") that a word of advice often already given may, with propriety, be repeated. Oil the ...

    Article : 351 words
  5. Advertising

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    Advertising : 105 words
  6. MELBOURNE BICYCLE CLUB.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 635 words
  7. YACHTING NOTES.

    However desirable a spanking southerly breeze may be for racing it was decidedly unsuitable for a display such as that attempted by the combined clubs in Hobson's Bay on the opening of the ...

    Article : 1,538 words
  8. EPISCOPAL SANCTION.

    The Pope and the Archbishop of Paris (reports the "Cycling World") have both delivered themselves of adverse opinions as to the use of the wheel for Roman Catholic priests. The ...

    Article : 214 words
  9. BALL BEARINGS.

    There is evidence (says the "Scientific American") to show that the ball bearing was invented at the works of Messrs. Boulton and Watt somewhere about the year 1760. Its inventor was John Wyatt, a native ...

    Article : 133 words
  10. Advertising

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    Advertising : 94 words
  11. SWIMMING.

    Williamstown is blessed with some very fine baths, and in olden days turned out some of Victoria's best swimmers. It is in accordance with the fitness of things, therefore, that the revived ...

    Article : 889 words
  12. ROWING NOTES.

    Nothing succeeds like success, and therefore it was not surprising that the Mercantile Club's crew, so successful in the past, should have succeeded in the race for the four-oared ...

    Article : 922 words
  13. SMITH AS A CYCLIST.

    At my last stay in the castle of Hoenzugwaldergrabenstein came to an end, and one fine morning the sound of the pawing of Smith's horses on the cobble-stones of the courtyard warned me that the ...

    Article : 1,009 words
  14. A MELBOURNE INVENTION.

    The wonderful popularity of the bicycle has given an impetus to invention, and the latest idea brought under the notice of cyclists is the "Triad" triplicate-geared chainless bicycle, designed and ...

    Article : 397 words
  15. MUNICIPAL PREJUDICE.

    The opinion among Ballarat cyclists (says the "Courier") is that the city council has swung the pendulum of regulation rather far in proposing to limit the pace for the central avenue to three miles ...

    Article : 233 words
  16. POOR MACHINES.

    The "Field" reports that advantage has been taken of the lively state of trade to force a large number of machines of poor make on buyers:—"It is not too much to [?]y that many thousands of bicycles of ...

    Article : 120 words
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