Spalding's Official Bicycle Guide (1899)

G. E. Stackhouse argues that the future of cycle racing depends on the League of American Wheelmen retaining control of the sport, defending the L.A.W.'s honesty and record while dismissing the rival N.C.A. faction as an unstable breakaway. He recounts the League's achievements in securing cyclists' legal rights, road improvements, and the bicycle's popular acceptance.

A. G. Batchelder makes the case for the newly formed National Cycling Association, contending that track owners, race-promoting clubs, and professional riders should govern racing rather than the annually changing L.A.W. He describes the N.C.A.'s formation after the professionals' breakaway and its planned alliances with regional cycling bodies.

A short essay asserting that the bicycle is no passing fad but a permanent invention combining business and pleasure, embraced across age, sex, nationality and social class. It notes the machine's rapid mechanical progress and its emerging military uses, and claims it is more popular, cheaper, and better than ever.

A. G. Batchelder reviews the disputed 1898 professional championship season, weighing the rival claims of Bald, Gardiner, Kimble, Major Taylor, and Tom Butler, and comparing their wins, points, and circuit fortunes. It discusses the effect of the L.A.W. breakaway on the title and the riders' relative standings.

A treatise on training that distinguishes producing general health from developing the racing rider's special powers, setting out a physician's daily rules for healthy living covering rising, bathing, diet, exercise, and the avoidance of tobacco and alcohol. It notes the rules came from a distinguished English champion cyclist who held several titles.

Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson, a self-described convert from prejudice, argues that cycling is the ideal exercise for women because it works the muscles harmoniously, improves circulation, and clears the blood of waste better than housework or other occupations. She adds testimony that the wheel acts as a sedative for nervous worry and insomnia and benefits chronic congestive conditions.

A reference compilation of cycling records, with a key to abbreviations for conditions such as competition, against time, paced, unpaced, amateur, professional and foreign. Tables list records by distance from a quarter-mile through many miles, plus hour records, giving times, conditions, riders, places and dates, and the section closes with notes on middle-distance paced racing.