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YOUR NATIONAL COMMITTEE APPEALS

YOU!

Boost’? is a direct appeal to you, as am individual member of the National Clarion Cycling E.. SUGDEN Club, from your National

Clarion National. Secretary Committee

We, as your National Committee, feel that perhaps you, as an individual member, have not realised how much you can dc to help your Club during, and after, the Clarion Bicycle Week, May 14th to 21st.

This Clarion Bicycle Week has a two-fold objective: The strengthening of the ranks of the National Clarion Cycling Club, and bringing to the notice of unorganised cyclists, the many advantages of inclusion in the ranks of the Clarion Clubdom.*’

We are sure that you, as a Clarionette, liave gained mental physical and perhaps pecuniary advantage from your membership of the Club, whilst at the same time, the treasure trove of happy memories provided by touring, racing and Club riding has been at your command

No club can equal the National Clarion Cycling Club in it’s ideals of fellowship and happy comradeship No Club can equal the National Clarion Cycling Club in it’s benefits and service, should you be unfortunate et with an

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You, as a member, know this well enough. Do you, as a Clarionette, give your help that others may know it?

We are all of us apt to forget that there are many cyclists who do not share our joys because they don’t know of them.

That is where you can help during the Clarion Bicycle Week. Will you respond to your committee’s appeal by determining to introduce at least one new member during 1939, if possible during.our great Week’? Every new member introduced means wider publicity for the Clarion—wider publicity means that by your aid the Clarion can extend your opportunities and benefits still further.

We ask for your help. Boost’’ has been sent to you for you to use in your conversations with unattached cyclists. Will you make use of it? We expect you to introduce one new member at least during 1989, are you going to disappoint us?

T. Groom (President), E. Sugden (Secretary), A. Braddock (Treasurer), A. Taylor (National Racing Secretary), G. E. Friech (National Publicity Secretary), J. Smith (Touring Bureau Secretary), K. Ashmore (East Midlands Union), J. Deveney (Manchester Union), ty B. Dobson (South Wales Union), G. W. Dove (Yorkshire Union), H. Hall (Midlands Union), G. J. Jackson (London Union), i A. E. Machonochie (North-East Union), J. G. Nicholson (Manchester Union), Mrs. M. Sadler (Midlands Union). FE, H. Ward (London Union). 2

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THE NATIONAL CLARION CYCLING CLUB

What it is, What it does,

And what you, as a

G. E. FRIECH member can do

The Club’s Honorary Publicity Secretary for it.

Boots,’’ ‘‘Spurs,’’ the call sign of the Clarion, a strange one the unitiated think, for a Cycling Club, and yet that call represents in itself the root of the Clarion. Forty-five years ago, cyclist readers of ‘‘The Clarion,’’? imbued with the ideals of Nunquam,’’ decided that they could utilise their bicycles in the business of taking the gospel of Merrie England”’ throughout the countryside. This band of true hearted Clarionettes, interested not in ‘‘isms’’ but in the fellowship of humanity, interested and inspired by a desire to lift up the standards of the people, banded themselves together into the Birmingham Clarion Cycling Club.

Six members started the Club and elected a committee ot seven! Of these six, one, T. Groom, still remains as the urbane and smiling President of the Club.

This was the foundation section of the National Clarion Cycling Club, this little band, with the Club’s motto—‘‘ Fellowship is life, lack of fellowship is death’’—ever before them, disseminated such a spirit of good fellowship and cheerfulness through the countryside that before long there were, in the Potteries, in Liverpool, in Bradford and Barnsley, other Clarion

Cycling Clubs.

Thus, in 1895, when a ‘‘Meet’’ was suggested, the suggestion was hailed with applause and 1895 saw the official formation of

the National Clarion Cycling Club, under blue skies just outside the Izaak Walton Hotel, near Ashbourne.

It was at this Meet that the famous Clarion cry of the road came into being, it was dark at Ashbourne when many of the Clarionettes were rolling in to the Meet and it was not easy to know whether you were shouting to a member or not.

In ‘‘The Clarion’’ at that time there were running some varns whereof the teller, to ensure that his barrack-room listeners had not gone to sleep, used to shout ‘‘Boots,’’ and unless his audience lustily responded with ‘“‘Spurs’’ they would be awakened with a boot or a pillow.

Therefore, through the darkness of Ashbourne, there resounded the cry Boots’’ and true Clarionettes responded with Spurs,’’ and now, nearly fifty years after, the cry resounds wherever cycles abound, the cry of Fellowship is life, lack of fellowship is death.”” For from those seven, or more correctly, six awaiting the seventh, there has grown the National Clarion Cycling Club, not grown to seventy times seven, but thousands of times, so that, in 1939, the National Clarion Cycling Club has sections in almost every town and village in England, Scotland and Wales and also in Ireland.

Why has the National Clarion Cycling Club grown’ to be such a force among the cyclists of Britain? Because It has combined those two fellowships, the fellowship of socialism and the fellowship of the open road, into one great whole; and has, to many thousands of Clarionettes, brought happiness and courage, the happiness of comradeship, and the courage of

So much for the history of the Clarion, one could write many pages on its various experiments with insurance, many more pages could be written of the loyalty and hard work of many voluntary officials—for the National Clarion Cycling Club has never been an organisation which existed for the purpose of making a profit, it has always been run by the members for the members, and it was only some five years since that it was realised that it was necessary to appoint a full-time secretary; because the work was so heavy that no longer could voluntary officials, however willing, carry it on. So large has the National Clarion Cycling Club grown, that it is felt that many members

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of the Club have never realised the real value of the cycling club to which they belong.

So large has the Club grown, that the membership has outgrown the resources necessary to provide for a small Club, we want new resources, new organisation, and above all, not just the quiescent support of our members, but their co-operation in a real Clarion drive for more members and yet more members.

Thus it is that we announce Clarion Bicycle Week for 1939, thus it is that Boost comes to you.

Out of the many millions of cyclists in this country not one million are members of cycling clubs. Why? Because they do not realise their duty as cyclists, nor the value to them of what they are missing.

"The National Clarion Cycling Club is the only cycling club in existence which pays cash benefits for personal accidents, and includes that payment in the one subscription, and those personal accidents are not proscribed as are newspaper insurances in that they must be fractures in specified places. If you have an accident whilst cycling and that accident prevents you following your normal employment, then you are eligible for benefit.

What other Club is there that will pay for a doctor for you for immediate medical attendance? What other Club is there that will pay your fare home should you be unable to ride home

after an accident?

‘These are questions that you should ask that cycling friend of yours who is not a member of a cycling club. These are only three of the reasons why that friend of yours should be a

member of the Clarion.

‘There are, however, other and far greater reasons why you should, as a member of the Clarion, do your utmost to see that all your cycling friends are also members. Cycling in these days must of necessity entail a certain amount of risk—risk of collision with faster moving and heavier vehicles. If that collision be not the fault of the cyclist and damage results from it, the cyclist who is a member of the Clarion is at an immediate advantage, everything is immediately taken out of his or her hands and the

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insurers take on the job of recovering damages. ‘The National Clarion Cycling Club is the only Club which insures-every one of its members in such a manner that they are sure of protection, every case in which a Clarion member has been the subject of collision with another vehicle is referred at once to the solicitors.

Then there is third party insurance. As a rule cyclists are more often the damaged than the damaging party, but in those rare instances where they have been unlucky enough to damage someone or something else, they are protected by their Clarion membership to the extent of £1,000.

Accidents, however, considering the number of cyclists on the road, are remarkable for their scarcity, and the standard of riding in the National Clarion Cycling Club is high.

‘There is, however, an aspect of Club membership which very few cyclists seem to consider, that is their duty to protect their sport, their duty to give their Clubs their active support in the fight to maintain the right of the cyclist to the full and free use of the road.

Insidiously, yet none the less certainly, the campaign against cyclists goes on, the campaign to sequester them on cycle tracks, the campaign to take away from the driver of the overtaking vehicle the onus of avoiding accidents, by equipping every cyclist with a rear light.

Only the cycling clubs, with a membership of the mass of cyclists, can fight and defeat this campaign. Do you not think that that is a point of view that you should put to every cyclist?

How many of you have, in this last year or so, escaped that annoying form of persecution directed from the loud speaker of the mobile police? How many times have you been directed to “ride in single file’? when there has been no necessity for such direction? How many times, riding along the main road which had a short strip of cycle path alongside it, have you been the subject of close cutting by other traffic in an effort to intimidate you into the use of that same short strip with its attendant

dangers?

Do you think these things can be defeated without organisation? Do you think that unless you immediately get

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your friends into a Club, and that Club the Clarion, you will continue to enjoy your liberty on the road with your cycle? If you do, disabuse your mind, before long the Clarion will have to lead in the fight to maintain you and your friends’ right to the free use of the road. Give us your support and that of your friends.

Even yet all the advantages and benefits of Clarion membership are not exhausted, the best are yet to come. For the finest benefits of Clarion membership are to be found in the social side, in the furtherance of the ideal which brought the Clarion into being. The Clarion has always stood for Good Fellowship instead of competition; the Clarion has always stood for peace instead of war. ‘The Clarion has always been one of the staunchest supporters of International Working Men’s olympiads, the Clarion believes that by far the finest place to fight the battles of the world is on the international sports ground, we lave had teams in many international olympiads and hope that, with the return of the world to sanity, we shall have competitors in’many more.

Club runs, touring, camping, racing, all the pleasures of Club social life can be enjoyed with the Clarion. Boost’’ hopes that you have enjoyed these pleasures and will continue to enjoy them for many years. “Boost’’ also hopes that in commemmoration of this, the first Clarion Bicycle Week, you will go out—TODAY—and get your friends to fill in their names on the forms at the back.

DO YOUR BIT FOR THE CLARION AND HELP THE CLARION TO DO A LOT FOR YOU. EVERY MEMBER A NEW MEMBER,.—That is the

V. BOTTERILL slogan for Bicycle Week, May The Club’s Honorary Assistant Publicity Secretary 14th to 21st.

ALEX ‘TAYLOR (Honorary National Racing Secretary of the National Clarion Cycling and

Athletic Club Centres) writes on

“CLARION AT SPEED”

Can Clarion roadmen take on the rest?

So rapid has been progress in recent years that the prospect of an all Clarion team holding its own against the best riders of Clubs other than the Clarion makes an interesting speculation, and of a certainty would make an interesting contest.

At the moment with Jack Hurrell, of South Yorkshire, and Jack ‘Taylor, of West of Scotland, carrying our colours in short distance and long distance events respectively, we look like setting a pace which few, if any, will beat this year.

The most pleasant feature of this improvement in our fast riding members is that it is not just a matter of having some half dozen comrades in our ranks who are top-liners, the Clarion racing strength has gone up in all-round quality and quantity. No longer is our Club a mere nursery, a feeder of others, we now have over a thousand lads attached to centres of the Clarion Cycling and Athletic Club. From being regarded with something like disdain the Clarion C. A.C.’s have compelled respect. In many parts of the country the Clarion name is on top.

At the moment our most notable successes are being scored in Scotland. Last year West of Scotland retained the Scottish Road Championship—both team and individual; the average set by champion Jack Taylor representing Scottish road record. Jack Taylor, Willie Mowatt and Tom Blair return new team test, whilst out of the twelve best Scots all rounders, four were Clarion men. Scottish open records—again both team and individual—are in Clarion keeping at 50 miles, 100 miles and

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1% hours, whilst—probably the finest success of all—the three fastest lads were making sure of top team honours, the second best trio were going on to beat every other Club, with one exception, to become Scotland’s third fastest team—this in the biggest officially organised all-rounder competition in the British Isles. West of Scotland’s shining example is being actively followed by centres in all parts of the country

What is the secret of this progress

i Recent agreement to leave the racing fraternity to run the game in their own way has been a contributing factor. The C. A.C.’s now control their own affairs. The National Committee and the Unions help financially and in other ways— the C. A.C.’s repay this interest by attracting new members to the Clarion and by keeping the Clarion name before the public.

Our biggest asset, however, lies in our being a working-class organisation. When a rider competes in the Clarion name, the success of that rider reflects credit on the Clarion and thus, indirectly, helps the Clarion cause of Socialism. Knowledge that he is riding for a principle—something bigger than himself —gives new energy to tired legs. You see the same thing applying, to some extent, in the Vegetarian Club.

Not only does our Clarion ideal spur on our riders, the officials, the helpers, the lads and lassies who turn out to encourage and feed our riders—they, too, are inspired. Therein lies the foundation of our growing strength.

In the track game team spirit does not count for so much, the sprinter is more of an individualist. This may explain why, in the Clarion—where Club loyalty is so keen—we have not established such a big name for ourselves. But the time of the track man is coming.

Sports promoting calls for the enthusiastic backing up of the Club’s whole strength. C. A.C. centres are now beginning to realise this and from this angle are tackling the track game, which, properly handled, offers a future.

The many thousands of Clarionettes who do not indulge in activity against the watch or on the track will, I feel sure, be only too willing to help in the many ways they can. I am sure that the C. A.C. members, with the support of the Clarion membership, will make of 1939 a very fitting memorial to our first Clarion Bicycle Week.”’

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DONT’S

DON’T, when you see an obvious tyro on the road, get

your head down and fly past him at evens,’’ he might paste you.

DON’T, when you see a new face with the Club, inspect his machine as if it were some product of the glacier age.

Probably you started cycling—as I did—on a bits and pieces model.

DON’T, when you see a new girl out with the Club, immediately conclude that she will fall a victim to your well oiled hair. It is quite possible, you know; that she might prefer cycling to crooning.

DON’T, when you see one or two new faces with the Club, take the lead and set such a pace that the owners of the new faces decide that cycling clubs are not for them. Club riders must be trained—not strained.

DON’T, when you see someone new at the starting place for the run, isolate them from your conversation. Many good members have been kept out of many Clubs because of the existence of a clique within the Club.

DON’T, if you see a new member or prospective member in trouble climbing a hill, be afraid to get off and walk yourself. Walking up hills is not a sign of weakness but an indication that you know how to enjoy cycling.

DON’T allow a new rider to struggle all day on a machine which is obviously uncomfortable, so many cyclists on their first appearance with a Club are ruined because they ride all day in discomfort. Keep your eye on them and see that their arm reach is comfy, that they can reach the pedals at their lowest without excessive straining, and, above all, disabuse their minds of the idea that their grip on their handlebars is their last link with life.

DON’T grouse if you happen to see an influx of girls into the Club. Many girls, properly trained, are better riders than the lads, and they are certainly more useful on the social side.

allow your racing interest to blind you to the value

of the. members of the Club. Similarly, don’t, if you are

a pure touring member think there is no value in racing 10

members; don’t, if you are one of the unfortunates who work Saturday afternoon, grouse at a small club run because some of the members have gone week-ending—you would have gone yourself had you been able.

DON’T leave all the work of your Club to your secretary and then grouse if it is not done.

DON’T expect the same committee to function for evermore.

DON’T turn up just when everything is ready for you, buckle in and help on the organising side. You will find that Club life ‘can mean a good deal more than you suspect.

DON’T be timid at meetings. If you have any grouses make ’em at the meeting, not out in the street afterwards.

DON’T allow the racing lads to blind at the front of a club run and

DON’T compel the racing lads to always ride at Club pace. Club runs are for the enjoyment of all members and training spins should be only for those who can stand them.

DON’T leave the renewal of your sub until five minutes before you go on your holiday tour. No Club can function on members who are such inname only.

DON’T expect the Captain to be infallible, nor the Sub- Captain or any other official of the Club, and if at times you should receive a hasty answer, remember that all officials are usually hard worked and apt to get tired.

DON’T forget that the first principle of a successful Club is enthusiastic members, and don’t forget that no Club will live unless it continually receives an influx of new blood. If you are an old member don’t harp on the days when so and so used to be riding, those days were no better than these, it’s just your

imagination.

DON’T forget that if you are a member of the Clarion you

should wear the Club badge and be proud of it, and that your conduct and that of your fellow members should always be such

as will be a credit to the badge.

DON’T forget that your pet caterer should be on the Club’s books and not kept for your private delectation.

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JOHN S. TAYLOR, popularly known as Jack Taylor, fastest amateur cyclist in the country at the commencement of 1939, says Whether Jack is a writer or not, he is without

doubt a grand cyclist and a CLARIONETTE.

Nine years ago, Brother Alex brought out with him on a winter run with the Kinning Park section, a new member. That new member just fitted into the section life and became ‘Young Taylor’ to the boys.

That was how I came to join the Clarion. I was the new member. It was perhaps natural that at the tender age of fourteen, any Club of which my elder brother was a member would be mine as well, but when it is remembered that we were reared in a Socialist household, it wasn’t just a matter of coincidence that we became Clarion members.

This last year or two I have been fortunate enough to enjoy some slight success ‘‘up the road,’”’ but this success has not caused me to seek fresh fields and pastures new. No. I ride— and am proud to ride—for the Clarion, because I firmly believe that the propagation of Socialism should be still the main object of the Club, especially so in these days of crisis following crisis, when the weaknesses of our present Capitalist system become so glaringly apparent.

I find myself best able to popularise the Clarion by racing, and this being the sphere in which I can at the moment be of most service, I shall don the tights again this year and, I hope, for some years to come.

Through Boost I would like to appeal to every member of the Clarion, whether he takes any interest in my own game or not, to do his (and her) utmost to make of the Clarion Bicycle Week, and of 1939, a record year for the Clarion—that is what I shall be striving to do up the road.”’

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“YOUR DUTY IN CLARION BICYCLE WEEK

This, the first Clarion Bicycle Week, is primarily designed, of course, to strengthen the ranks of the National Clarion Cycling Club. We feel that for too long have we members of the National Clarion Cycling Club been content to jog along at a tate which tended, like the famous joke, to have only two variations—slow and stop.

It is time, we feel, that the Clarion jumped into top gear, and so Clarion Bicycle Week is born, that that jump may be effected.

You may say that you, yourself, have not the opportunity to take much practical interest in Clarion Bicycle Week although you wish it well. There is one thing you can do, however, and do now. What about your own subscription? So many of us are apt to leave our subscriptions renewal until we are about to go on holiday tour or something like that, and yet we are very much annoyed if the secretary of our section, thinking of our unpaid subscriptions, does not recognise us as members.

Will you, as your first contribution to Clarion Bicycle Week, look at your policy and see whether you are a member in fact as

well as in name? If your subscription is overdue use the form at the foot of this page and BECOME AN ACTIVE MEMBER

AGAIN.

Then, armed with Boost,’’ see that your friends who have been hanging on the skirts of Clubdom for so long, also become active members—that is your duty in Clarion Bicycle Week. If you do your duty and everyone else does theirs, Clarion Bicycle Week is an assured success. WHAT ABOUT IT?

To the Secretary (This may be sent either to E. Sugden, 15 West View, Hopwood Lane, Halifax, Yorks, or handed to

your local section secretary).

My policy number in 1988 was .........-.6002005, I enclose 5s. 6d. postal order, please renew my subscription.

Take Boost out with you and see how many names and addresses you can get on this page. Use yesterday’s stop press column if this page is not enough

The following, introduced by «.----+-::0..:.cees (fill in your name here), desire(s) to join the National Clarion Cycling

Club:

Name Address

Name Address

This page with it’s addresses should be handed to your local secretary or forwarded to the National Secretary. If any of your nominees desire to pay their subscription at the same time as they give their address, see that you have their signature on the Club’s official application form, copies of which can be obtained from your local secretary or from Halifax.

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THE CLARION ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP SCHEME

The National Clarion Cycling Club now has an associate membership scheme, which has been devised mainly in order that the Utility and Occasional Cyclist shall have the opportunity of obtaining protection on the road, and, at the same time, doing his or her bit towards keeping the use of the roads, for cyclists, unhampered by unnecessary restrictions, since, in order that the cyclist’s case may be put in the strongest possible fashion, it is essential that all users of cycles should be members of cycling clubs.

For the nominal sum of 2s. 6d. per year the associate member is assured of protection if he or she should be so unfortunate as to meet with an accident, full third party cover up to £1,000 being available, and, what is more important, should the member suffer damage from any other vehicle then he or she is assured of legal aid without any further payment, whilst, in addition, the Club’s touring bureau is available for the free use of associate members.

The third party and legal aid benefits are available not only when the member is riding for pleasure, but also when he or she is riding to and from work, so that for the sum of 2s. 6d. per year, or 2s. per year in the case of groups of ten or more joining together, the utility or occasional and the small club cyclist can feel completely protected by a strong organisation.

SET YOUR WORKMATES TO SIGN ON THE DOTTED

LINE. ‘Then forward the form with p.o. to National Secretary, National Clarion C.C., Halifax, Yorks. (Postage refunded).

I/WE apply to be admitted as (an) associate member(s) of the National Clarion Cycling Club and agree to conform to the Associate Members Constitution of the N.S.C.C. (Copies of constitution available from Head Office for s.a, envelope).

Name

Name Address

Further. forms obtainable from your Local Secretary or National Secretary. Reproduction of any article, except by permission of the N.C.C.C.,

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WHAT IS ON DURING CLARION BICYCLE WEEK MAY 14th—2lst, 1939

Clarion Bicycle Week opens on May 14th with every section throughout the country holding an invitation ride. If you have not been out with your section for months, it is your paramount duty to be out on May Mth, and to see that any newcomers to the run that day, learn something of the meaning of the fellowship of the Clarion, learn something of the real delights of cycling, and that they go home on the night of May 14th, determined to become—and at an early date—members of the National Clarion Cycling Club. During the following week, you will find that in all parts of the country there are Clarion activities, evening runs, open club-room nights, dances, lectures and all the manifold activities which go to make up the life of a really good club. There will be photographic competitions, club displays, and in South Wales—at Porth—there is to be a roller competition. For members within reach of St. Helens (Lancashire) there is the Clarion-Waring Cycle Show, with roller competition (under the control of Harry Hill (John Bull professional and -record breaker), photographic competition, club display and everything that will interest all cyclists.

On May 2ist, the concluding day of the Clarion Bicycle Week, there is, of course, the Meriden Peace Rally, which this year is also to be a rally in memory of Kuklos, who, we have no doubt would have been greatly interested in the Clarion Bicycle Week. ‘The peace rally, of course, is not a publicity stunt, but an annual feature of our club life, designed to point out to cycling youth the tragedy and futility of war.

In many parts of the country there will be Clarion rallies on May 21st, at the Club-houses at Porthcawl (S. Wales), at Parbold (Lancashire) and in Scotland.

Wherever you live, you can give your support to some form of Clarion activity during the Bicycle Week. Will you make a point of doing so?

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CLARION CLUB-HOUSES

Apart from, yet a mainstay of the Clarion movement, are the Clarion Club-houses, country houses, supported by Clarion cyclists and members of the Clarion Fellowship, and run by voluntary labour. At Wilmslow in Cheshire, at Ribchestér in North Lancashire, at Menston in the beautiful Wharfedale of Yorkshire, there are Clarion Club-houses, where members are assured of a Clarion welcome and of that hospitality and feeling of well-being which guarantees pleasure from one’s cycling excursions.

Membership of the Club-houses is not included in the Clarion subscription, but for those cyclists who like to have a short run and enjoy the pleasure of social contact the Club-houses are ideal. For a week’s holiday, as a centre for a tour, for a week-end, or as the stopping place for a meal, the Club-houses are always at

your service.

They provide facilities for all games, indoor and outdoor. They provide facilities for dinners, concerts, meetings; in fact, there is very little needful for the full enjoyment of the social side of cycling that they do not provide, and this at a very modest figure.

Why not this year, when foreign touring seems so doubtful a project, plan your summer tour to take in the Clarion Clubhouses? Why not travel to the Lakes via Ribchester, to the Yorkshire dales via Menston, and to Wales via Wilmslow

If the age of your family is such as to prevent you travelling far afield, why not take them to one of the Clarion Club-houses, where you can enjoy much of the pleasure of a cycling holiday, and still not be hampered with family cares

Information regarding any of the Club-houses can be obtained from

Yorkshire Clarion Club-house, Chevin End, Wharfedale, Yorks.

Manchester Clarion Club-house, Oversley Ford, Styal, Wilmslow, Cheshire.

North Lancs. Clarion Club-house, Higher Madgei Bank, Clayton-le-Dale, Ribchester.

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THE CLARION SUBSCRIPTION

5s. 6d. per year, running for twelve months from date of entry. That 5s. 6d. per year, less than 1}d. per week, is all that you pay for the privilege of enjoying the benefits and pleasures set out in the previous pages.

It-is not so much as the cost of a packet of the cheapest cigarettes weekly, it is not so much as the cost of a cycling paper weekly, yet many of you demur at paying it. Many of you, considering your weekly pocket money, think it is a lot. Paid in one week it may seem a lot, but it lasts twelve months, and during that twelve months your cycling need give you no worries. ‘The Club is at your service, and you have the added satisfaction of knowing that you are a member of the most active Cycling Club in the country—a Club which is active in every sphere.

If you no longer consider yourself an active cyclist, then what about becoming an Associate Member, what about keeping your contact with the Clarion indirectly? Sign up on Page 16, and do a little towards the continued protection of the greatest pastime of all—cycling.

There are no cyclists in the land today, whether they ride sit-up-and-begs or the most super-super machines on the market, who can consider themselves cyclists if they are not Club members. Cycling demands that cyclists should, for their own protection and that of cycling, become Club members—and more essentially, that they. should become MEMBERS OF THE CLARION.

The cost to them is less than 14d. per week for full membership, and less than three farthings per week for associate membership. The value to cycling of their membership is immense, as we have tried in these pages to show you. We hope that Boost has awakened you to the necessity for your active service on behalf of the’ Clarion.

If Boost’’ has done this, then its production will not have been in vain. The result of Clarion Bicycle Week lies in your hands. We feel that to Clarionettes weshall not appeal in vain,

and with that feeling we leave you with Boost’’ and our best wishes. BOOTS. SPURS:

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COMING EVENTS which all Clarion Members should support

May 14th to 21st—Clarion Bicycle Week. May 21st—Kuklos Memorial Peace Rally, at Meriden.

At Meriden, in Warwickshire, where stands the Cyclists’ War Memorial, there is held annually a service in memory of those cyclists who were sacrificed in the last war to end war.”’ The Clarion, whilst honouring the sentiments of those who built the memorial and ‘hold the service, feel that they are of more value to living humanity by organising the Peace Rally which follows the service. ‘This year the rally is dedicated to Kuklos, who always, unflinchingly, fought for peace and sanity, and was, in addition, one of our greatest cyclists. This year the chairman is C. C. Poole, M.P. for Lichfield. The Rev. Richard Lee, of Coventry, will dedicate the rally to the memory of Kuklos (to which Klossie, Kuklos’ widow, has given her consent), and Billie Dovey, ‘fanious.lady cyclist, will speak. In the cause of peace Clarionettes should support the rally on Meriden Green at about 10-30 a.m. on*May 21st.

June 6th—West of Scotland Clarion C. A.C. Track Meeting at Ibrox Stadium. All Scottish Clarionettes should rally to the support of the most magnificent venture ever staged by the Clarion. Full particulars and entry forms from A. Taylor, 41 Aros Drive, Glasgow, S.W.2

June 24th—Clarion Semi-Open Sports at Fallowfield Track, Manchester. This should be the meeting place for all Clarionettes from a large area. In addition to the fact that this is the first semi-open track promotion of the Clarion, you should support it for the sake of encouraging the lads who ride for the Clarion. Here the five miles championship will be decided. ‘There are events for Clarion section teams, tandem events, invitation events, and everything that goes to the making of a successful mecting and a really enjoyable track programme, Arrangements are in’ the capable hands of T. S. Varley, 72 Parkville Road, Withington, Manchester 20, from whom full particulars can be obtained. ‘‘Boost expects to see you at Manchester on June 24th.

The Committee desire to express their thanks for the loan of blocks to A. Taylor, J. Taylor, Scottish Cycling and Y.H. News, and T. Leslie.

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