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    A Guide to Cycle Camping - A Collection of Historical Articles on the Methods and Equipment of the Cycle Camper
    A Guide to Cycle Camping - A Collection of Historical Articles on the Methods and Equipment of the Cycle Camper
    A Guide to Cycle Camping - A Collection of Historical Articles on the Methods and Equipment of the Cycle Camper
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    A Guide to Cycle Camping - A Collection of Historical Articles on the Methods and Equipment of the Cycle Camper

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473355736
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      A Guide to Cycle Camping - A Collection of Historical Articles on the Methods and Equipment of the Cycle Camper - Read Books Ltd.

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      CYCLE-CAMPING.

      The Power of Cycle-Camping—412.—The word power in this connection is used as to the numbers, possibilities, past accomplishments, and prospects. As a movement it has had a stupendous effect upon Camping. Articles and reports, ten thousand times more in value than the book that placed it before the country, have drawn attention to Camping at large. It is not too much to say that this movement alone has brought into line, thoroughly or partially, something like 3,000 people. The whole question of Camping has been awakened afresh by its influence. Its power was demonstrated in the third year of its public existence, when 40 people could be got together in one camp, and larger and lesser numbers have gathered up and down country ever since. The Association of Cycle-Campers, which I started with two members, has now over 300, while the National Camping Club, which I founded only 14 months ago, has 250 members. Added to this hundreds are pursuing the sport unaffiliated.

      The Joy of Cycle-Camping.—413.—I say it is a joy to turn out of a railway station or from the deck of a steamer, and, after making a few purchases, to sally forth with a couple of packages strung on your machine along the shore road, round the bay, up over the cliff, down into the valley and up again, away into the breezy, free, and thinly inhabited land, to you as yet unknown and stay there just as long as you desire, at almost no-pence per day. I say it is grand to feel that on the two wheels you can travel 60 or 70 miles comfortably, almost without being tired, carrying your kit and food. Surely it appeals to the Englishman to stop at will, and do it all with the feeling of the ploughman who whistles in the furrow.

      The Machine.—414.—Any good average roadster will do if its owner will insist on a civilized handle-bar, only a few inches less than the space of his shoulders. The ponderous weight that some campers afflict themselves with is a matter that does not concern us. A fairly light kit is one that a machine feels nothing of. Decidedly, let the camper have two speeds if not three, as this may mean miles a day if he wants to cover hilly ground and face winds. It will mean that those extra miles can be covered and the day closed at an earlier hour with less fatigue and less strain. The best gears for the Camping cycle would be: 55 hills; 72 average; 86 before wind.

      THE PIPE AND PEACE.

      I am aware of no gear so gauged. On being asked for gear advice, I say take any patent, irrespective of its name, that comes nearest. A machine with a 48 I hate, because it gives too much to do and a 66 for No. 2, which is too low for one’s average—I speak of 7-in.

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