The Wheels That Go Round

Quite a number of Aun Arbor cyclers will go to the national circuit meet at Mt. Clemens on the 22d and 23(1. Next year will be still a greater year for wheels ín this city than tliis one lias been. If the soklier of the future is to be mounted on a bicycle, as some enthusiasts declare he will be, then he will lose all fear for hiniself in battle. All his thoughts will be centered upon the danger be runs of puncturiug bis tire amid bullets and bayonets that he will have no chance tothink of the danger he himself is in.- Wheel. The other day a young woman rode down S. State street shrieking "Help! Help!" A pedestrian rushed out to her, and she said, with a sweet stnile : "Please be so good as to turn me around. I'm tired and want to go liome." The man acted as a turntable, and the woman wheeled away with the happy expression on her "bicycle face." The recent state meet held at Battle Ureek was the largest one held in this country this year, excepting the national meet at Asbury Park. At no race meet before or after it, this year have there been so many contestants who were really great stars. The New York Mercury says : H. E. Caldwell, the crack long-distance and road raciug man of New England, a former resident of Manchester, N. II., is now a resident of Detroit. One experience on the famous Hilsendegen, Belle Isle, course convinced Caldwell that this is the greatest course for training." Caldwell will be remembered as the winner of the time prize in the recent road race at Battle Creek. Leo T. Flansburg, and Henry Eddy, both of Kalamazoo, and both well known as riders, have been suspended by the racing board of the L. A. W. for thirty days for riding in a race at Plaiu■well recently that was unsanctioned. Both young men have too good a reputation among tl ie riders of the state and no one will believe that they were aware that the races were not sanctioned by the racing board. Edward Clegg, Coleman Kickolds and Henry Cartstensen, British bicycle tourists, were arrested at Chardon, Neb., for fast riding recently, and fined $1 and costs, a total of $5.70 each. Although abundantly supplied with money tliej' refused to pay their fines and were committed to hard work on the street. They would not work, how-ever, but instead sat down under a load of hay. They will claim the protection of the English government. Au Iudianapolis genius has invented a contrivance wliich he calis a tackcatclier for bicycles. When a pneumatic tire picks up a tack the taek does not penétrate very deeply at first, but is forced further into the fabric with every revolution of the wheel, until the inner tube is punctured. The device of the Indianapolis man to prevent this consists of a curved, comb-like piece of metal, armed with pointed teeth and extending backward from the forks of the machine, close to the surface of the tire. These teeth are intended to eugage ■with the tack as soon as it enters the tire and extract it. The vvoman on the wheel is provoking a good deal of discussion among the medical writers. Some of them contend that she is certain to be injuredby such excercise, but the prevailing opinión seems to be that she will derive benelit from it. One of them calis attention particular!}' to the fact that women are not by nature weaker than man, but that they dress with such disregard of natural laws that their strength is impaired, and the bicycle forces them to correct this fault by adopting a costume that is calculated to promote health and general vigor. Over a million is the estímate of the sales of bicycles this year and next, and all the political candidates are becoining enthusiastic for good roads. While a vast deal of comment is made on the fact that bloomers are now an optional costume with women, no attention is paid to the coincidence that men are adopting knee breeches in similar sports. It is an era of evolution in dress and not of bloomers alone. The tiuie is coming - and not far distant, so rumor goes- when the bicycle that now costs $100 can be bought for next suinnier for $50 or $60. A report has been circulated to the effect that a 8yndicate is being formed for the purpose of putting on the market on or before April 1, 1896, 400,000 bicycles, which are to be made at $18 each and sold as low as $30. This bicycle is to be as good, for all ordinary purposes, as the $100 wheel of today, and it is supposed it will lead in the cutting of prices. Don't dodge a bicycle rider either male or female. Stand still and the rider will get along all right. Posts, trees, stones, etc, never dodge, and only beginners ever run into them. If you see a "bike" coming straight at you, don't dodge ; if you do you will confuse the rider. If you stand still "in the middle of the road," or ever you happen to be, the rider will take "care to give you plenty of room ; but if you go dodging to get out of the way, the chances are there will be a colusión and you will be the worse hurt of the two. Therefore, don't dodge.