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C:\Drive D from Old Hard Drive\ Reminiscenses of MC - IXION REMINISCENCES OF MOTOR CYCLING: ‘IXION’ The work includes many fascinating cartoon draw- First published 1920-1927 pp. 312 ings and some photographs, and all those interested in early transport will find the works truly fascinating. Here reprinted are two small volumes Motor Cycle Reminiscences and Further Motor Cycle Reminiscences ISBN 0 85409 886 0 £3.00 NET written by ‘Ixion’ of ‘The Motor Cycle’ who was one of the lead•ing motoring journalists. EP Publishing Limited Other titles include: The author recounts in these two titles, now reissued MOTOR CYCLE CAVALCADE ‘Ixion’ £2.50 as a single volume, his impres•sions of 30 years and MY MOTORING REMINISCENCES S.F. Edge £3.50 over 300,000 miles on the road. He was one of the first THE COMPLETE MOTORIST A.B. Filson Young £4.00 motor cyclists when the general public regarded the ROLLS-ROYCE CATALOGUE 1910-11 £10.00 pioneers as incomprehensible lunatics, and no wonder, if INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PRACTICAL WORKING OF TRAC- one reads the problems they had to overcome. TION ENGINES AND ROAD ROLLERS £1.00 In the early days even the pedal cycle tended to be SENTINEL STEAM WAGGONS Alley & MacLellan, Ltd. £2.00 faster, and the uplift beneath early motor cycling must BALLOONS’& AIRSHIPS A. Hildebrandt £4.25 have been equiva•lent to a religion, or they would never VELOCIPEDES ‘Velox’ £1.25 have borne its manifold disagreeables as they did. One A ROYAL ROAD S. Fay £2.00 could divide these pioneers into three kinds, the engi- GREAT GREAT WESTERN W.J. Scott £1.50 neers, the adventurers and those gambling on the com- mercial possibilities. EP Publishing Limited However, things soon improved and especially in East Ardsley, Wakefield, Yorkshire the second volume do the problems seem to become less important and the pleasures far greater. 2 Reminiscenses of MC - IXION Copyright © in this edition 1973 EP Publishing Limited REMINISCENCES East Ardsley, Wakefield OF MOTOR CYCLING Yorkshire, England by Reproduced by permission of the copyright holders, IXION Butterworth & Co. (Publishers) Limited of This is a reprint of Motor Cycle Reminiscences and “The Motor Cycle” Further Motor Cycle Reminiscences, both originally published by Iliffe & Sons Ltd. Being the Impressions of ISBN o 85409 886 o Thirty Years and 300,000 ep Miles on the Road Please address all enquiries to EP Publishing Limited (address as above) 1973 Printed in Great Britain by The Scolar Press Limited, Menston, Yorkshire 3 Reminiscenses of MC - IXION CONTENTS. V. THE END TO END RECORD 51 CHAPTER. PAGE Arnott, Silver and Mills open a long procession - Ivan Hart. Davies makes the course his own. INTRODUCTION . 9 VI. TRICARS . 59 I. A RAGBAG OF RECOLLECTIONS . 14 The Phoenix Trimo - Primitive 9 h.p. projectiles - Rides on borrowed machines - My first motor bicycle Capsize or charge the hedge? - A merry starting - A quaint contract - The 2-3/4 h.p Excelsior - Trailers handle-the organ runabout. and forecars • A De Dion quadricycle. VII. RELIABILITY TRIALS 66 II. THE MOTOR BICYCLE IMPROVES. 31 The “ fortnight “ trial of 1903-Leonard Jones’ “ per- Foreign engines - Routine troubles - Rebuilding the petual motion “ tricycle - Tom Sopwith on a tricar - machine • The crazy inventor - Big engines - Two- The first Edinburgh run - Hillclimbs in the early Six speed gears - The first Triumph - Magneto ignition. Day trials - The first End to End - The first flat twin - The first two-stroke - 1909 brings variable gears to the III. HILLCLIMBING COMPETITIONS . 37 front - The first Scottish Six Days - A holocaust on Pedalling up Westerham - How the expert wins - Some Amuiree - Adjustable pulleys - The Armstrong hub - bad tumbles. Overcrowded hotels - Finding the winners - The freak IV. RACING ON ROAD AND TRACK . 41 hill policy - Strikes among the competitors. France at first supreme - 20 h.p. machines pacing VIII. SIDECARS. 89 pushbikes • The International races - England out classed All men are faddists-The chivalry of the sidecar-the - Brooklands and the T.T. - The Indian challenge. flexible pattern-A duplex-steering sidecar-A castor wheel type•Finality at last. 4 Reminiscenses of MC - IXION IX. ROADSIDE TROUBLES- 94 XII. ACCIDENTS . 122 Their compensations - Hillclimbing failures - Accumu- The cherub who guards motorcyclists - The humorous lator ignition - The “bootlace” belt - Dropping bits - aspects - An axle collapse - Some sideslips - A steer- Shoddy engines - Prehistoric brakes - The first reliable ing gear which reversed - Pillion riding - A heresy machines • The tyre bogey. about cross roads - Cattle at night - Tyre bursts - Speedman’s wobble. X. INNS 107 How they add to the annual bill - The fashionable XIII. LAMPS . 132 caravan•serai-Evenings on tour - Motorcyclists not Early patterns - Carrying a spare lamp - Germany to wanted - The lift record-A mysterious light at a a.m. - the rescue - One lamp to three men - A capsized Our favourite houses•Riding in company:! - Accom- cyclecar - Why the subaltern’s electric outfit gave modation troubles in a big trial • Picnics and camping. trouble. XI. ROADS . ‘. 115 XIV. THE PLEASURES OF MOTORCYCLING 139 How they have deteriorated - Potholes and their pro- All men are mechanics at heart - The element of danger duction • Good carpets on bad floors - The Scottsh • Wanderlust - The motorcycle as a help to courtship - roadmender at work - The modern trials secretary and Riding as an anaesthetic - The healthiness of the sport his selection of a route • Sideslip - Reconstruction - The liberty of the road - The railroad holiday - The inevitable. utilitarian machine. 5 Reminiscenses of MC - IXION Introduction INTRODUCTION. THE other day I saw a revival of The Belle of New York. Its cast includes a shabby lunatic who amongst other eccentricities strolls into a candy store, interrupts the lyrics of the spangled chorus, and orders a ton of coal. The assembled knuts and flappers receive him, with a bored, puzzled politeness. That is exactly how we pioneer motorcyclists were regarded by the general public twenty years ago-we were incompre•hensible lunatics. Our room was preferred to our company, and only persons with perfect manners forebore to tell us so. Indeed, . unless we frightened people’s horses, they were quite astoundingly polite to us. Our weird hobby seemed to be without excuse or justification : it veneered us with a permanent grime which, exceeded every known form of filth alike in squalor and in adhesiveness. The uncertainty of being able to start on a journey was only exceeded by the improbability of our ever reaching our Such times of penance were usually devoted to the identification of some mystic ailment which afflicted our des•tination in the saddle. We were unquestionably doomed to spend long hours by the roadside, under machines. The odds in the first place were heavily against our being able to trace the trouble; in the second conditions that ranged from grilling sun to a frosty night, place the betting was equally strong against our being from desperate solitude to a seething mob. able to remedy it, if found. 6 Reminiscenses of MC - IXION Introduction There were no garages; the longest push could only our inexplicable conduct. A new machine might easily bring us to the door of some ambitious cycle repairer, cost £ 75 to buy. Its repair bill was long enough to stag- more ignorant and less cautious than ourselves. ger a munition magnate, and it was out-of-date soon after When it rained, we sideslipped and got drenched, it had been delivered. The most sympathetic student of for our machines were wofully top-heavy, and the mod- human nature might be pardoned for com•paring us to ern dreadnought clothing was not dreamt of. In winter the gentleman who carried a slice of toast with him under we suffered from frostbite. In summer our engines the impression that he was a poached egg. over•heated. Our belts slipped and broke and pulled Now that the horse is all but extinct, I may inform through without partiality under all conditions ; the slip the curious that it was an observant, suspicious and which they developed in wet weather was not more ignorant animal. When motorcycles first dawned on its habitual than the glaze from which their leather suffered vision, it took careful stock of them. Several disturbing when roads were dry and dusty. Most of us were ex- points were immediately obvious. Motorcycles smelt cyclists; but such a hideous past was no palliation of our abom•inably. The men who accompanied them on the folly. We could not claim that motorcycles were faster roads were dreadful ruffians. Sometimes a motorcycle than pushbikes; we often covered a few miles at a speed might be met travelling at inconceivable velocities. On which was then regared as suicidal-say 24 miles an hour other occasions, indeed more commonly, they were or so; but from” beginning to end of a cross•country found station•ary by the roadside. This latter attitude was journey the prehistoric motorcycle was generally slower pure cunning, intended to entice unwary horses up to than a scissors-grinder’s handcart. We could not claim close range before the noise and smell began. The new that we preferred the motorcycle for hillwork; for the monster was evidently a lethal projectile, a kind of bomb main difference between it and the pushbike where gradi- on wheels; when it was in motion, you could hear the ents were concerned, was that the latter was very dis- clockwork whirring in its inside, and you would be half tinctly easier to push. Economy could be no factor in deafened by its repeated efforts to detonate. We pro- 7 Reminiscenses of MC - IXION Introduction duced some such impression on the horses of our day. a novel character, they clamour for its suppression.
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