October is often a month when cycling can be enjoyed to perfection in England, and this season the early days of autumn ihave afforded grand weather and magnificent condition of roads. Ear'y and late the weather is chilly, and slight frosts mako the air rather biling, but. when the.sun is up, and glorifies the reddening bounty of the fading foliage, the pictures of our woodland scenery are unequalled anywhere in the world. "The plessures of cycling, too, are greatly increased for us during the Just few years, by the immense improvement in the care taken of the roads by the county authorities. Stones are carefully put un, net strown broadcast, the steam roller works at extensive repairs, jhedye clippings are removed under penalties for neglect of this duty and in some distrie's the roads are carefully swept twice a week. The consequence is that where ruts and stenes and mud did once abound, now a smooth attractive highway tempts the cyclist. The season ix practically over and done with so far as racing of importance is concerned, although there are several men yet in triining for various records A feature of the record performance of last work was the large number of tude on" tandems and molticycles, which although they do not excite the same interest as a single performance, yet
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