Trouvez votre prochain book favori
Devenez membre aujourd'hui et lisez gratuitement pendant 30 joursCommencez vos 30 jours gratuitsInformations sur le livre
The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and Techniques of Bicycle Riding
Actions du livre
Commencer à lire- Éditeur:
- Read Books Ltd.
- Sortie:
- Aug 26, 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781473359147
- Format:
- Livre
Description
Informations sur le livre
The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and Techniques of Bicycle Riding
Description
- Éditeur:
- Read Books Ltd.
- Sortie:
- Aug 26, 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781473359147
- Format:
- Livre
En rapport avec The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and Techniques of Bicycle Riding
Aperçu du livre
The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and Techniques of Bicycle Riding
Magazine.
THE PARLIAMENT OF CYCLING
BY S. R. NOBLE
(SECRETARY OF THE N.C.U.)
CYCLISTS were at first looked upon with distrust, if not with positive dislike.
In that brief sentence lies the whole secret of the inception of the National Cyclists’ Union, a body which has not inaptly been styled the Jockey Club of cycling.
HOW THE UNION WAS FORMED
During the early seventies, and, indeed, for a considerable period later, the man who bestrode a bicycle was regarded by pedestrians and horsey
men alike as a species of Ishmaelite, and rustic humour often resolved itself into the tangible and unpleasant form of ’eaving ’arf a brick
at him, while practical jokers on the box-seats of stage coaches not infrequently enlivened their journeys by fishing for, or lassoing, any unfortunate knights of the wheel they might meet in their way. It was the playfulness of the driver of the St. Albans coach and other incidents of a similar nature, and the necessity for regulating the new sport of cycle racing, that ultimately gave rise to an agitation in the cycling and general press, which later bore fruit in the formation of an organisation called the Bicycle Union. In March, 1877, a meeting of cyclists was held at the headquarters of the Temple Bicycle Club, then one of the most prominent metropolitan cycling clubs, and at a subsequent meeting of delegates from various clubs throughout the country a sub-committee was selected to draft a constitution and a code of rules and regulations. The University cycling clubs enthusiastically threw in their lot with their fellow-wheelmen, and in the early part of the following year a basis of representation was agreed upon, and a constitution confirmed. The original principles then promulgated remain to-day, with a few necessary additions and alterations, still the objects of the union. A number of tricyclists, however, resented the narrowing of the title to bicycles, and a little later, the cumbrous appellation of Bicycle Union with which is incorporated the Tricycle Association
was adopted, but, thanks mainly to the efforts of Mr. Robert Todd, then honorary secretary to the Union, the happy and comprehensive title of National Cyclists’ Union was adopted in
Avis
Avis
Ce que les gens pensent de The Wonderful Past-Time of Cycling - A Collection of Classic Magazine Articles on the History and Techniques of Bicycle Riding
00 évaluations / 0 avis