The Cyclist and Wheel World Annual (1883)
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C. W. Nairn and Henry Sturmey, ed. The Cyclist and Wheel World Annual (1883). 1883. cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/books/the-cyclist-and-wheel-world-annual-1883/
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Contents
- The editors introduce the 1883 volume as a successor to the previous year's Annual, aiming at accuracy and utility for riders and advertisers; issued from The Cyclist office in London and Coventry.
- A month-by-month diary for 1883, one page a month from January to December, giving each date with its weekday, sunrise and sunset, moon phases, and a mileage column.
- Introduces the 1883 tables of places off the high roads, using the example of Bamborough, 4 miles right of Belford, and cross-refers them to the high-road tables of the 1882 Annual; the tables that follow give each place's county, nearest high-road town and distance from London.
- Charles R. Maddox, Foreign Chief Consul of the B.T.C., rates routes in tabular form by country, district, route, surface and remarks: Waldmunchen to Pilsen and Prague in Bohemia, Antwerp to Malines and Brussels, Brussels to Waterloo and Namur, Namur to Dinant and Rochefort, Boulogne to Creci and Abbeville, Amiens, Breteuil, and Clermont to Paris.
- Observer, L.B.C., explains how he keeps his riding records: a yearly table of total mileage and Saturday rides, separate pages for rides of 20 to 40 miles and beyond, a page of distances on the main roads he uses, and a marked Ordnance Survey index map.
- Describes the tracks not covered last year, including Powderhall in Edinburgh, Southport, and Taunton, giving length in laps to the mile, surface, running side and grandstand arrangements.
- Results of the 1882 races arranged alphabetically by town, from Aberdeen (Championship of the North, A. Leith) through Acton, Alexandra Palace, Bournemouth, Coventry and Leicester to Yeovil and York, with the placings and, where taken, the times.
- District results from Gateshead, Byker, Gosforth, Wallsend and Elswick, including the Byker meetings of T. D. Oliver, W. B. Kirsop and D. Welford, the Cowen Challenge Cup on 12 August and a sixty-mile road race on 30 September.
- Compiled by J. H. Mellor from the Wheel World, the results of Irish club meetings in 1882 at places such as Ballymena, Banbridge and Limerick, and at Dublin's Lansdowne Road and Phoenix Park, with the fastest times asterisked and riders such as J. Welply, J. Ralph and W. M. Woodside.
- Review of London racing: the four bicycle championships shared among three men, the new Five Miles Tricycle Championship, Cortis's two rides of 20 miles inside the hour (at the Crystal Palace and Surbiton), and the performances of M. H. Jephson, W. K. Adam, Keith-Falconer, Whatton and Charles Crute, the season's disappointment.
- Review of Midland racing by Scorchalong: the riding of Moore, Palmer, Sutton and Lowndes, Lowndes's tricycle records and his 50-mile road championship, and the suspension of Mills, Sidwell and Shadwick over the Brinklow affair.
- Review by Woll of racing in the North East: the Tyne tracks at Gateshead, Byker and Wallsend, and the season's riders T. D. Oliver (almost undefeated, with his dated list of wins), E. J. Wilkinson, George and Thomas Maughan, W. Wood and H. Rowell.
- By West Countryman, a survey of the season in Bristol, Bath, Salisbury, Exeter, Taunton, Poole and South Wales: H. West, the Whatton brothers, C. King, W. A. Bayley of Exeter, Chapman of Taunton, Ace of Swansea, and C. E. Craze of Penzance. The article has no printed head in the scan; the entry starts where its text begins.
- Compiled by W. E. Milner: a numbered table of Herbert Liddell Cortis's scratch and handicap races from June 1876 to May 1882, with date, ground, distance, placing and time, several marked as record attempts, falls or best on record; pages 119 to 123 continue the table.
- Fastest amateur and professional times on record by distance, with the rider's name and time, including the marks of H. L. Cortis, the Hon. Keith-Falconer, W. K. Adam, M. H. Jephson, C. D. Vesey and G. D. Day.
- Compiled by Abbott Bassett of the Bicycling World, Boston, the fastest amateur and professional times in America for each mile distance, with the riders G. M. Hendee, Frank Moore, John S. Prince, C. D. Vesey, D. Stanton and W. R. Griffiths.
- Day-by-day record of tricycling events from 1 January 1882: West Kensington T.C.'s mileage, the Princess of Wales's Challenge tricycles, the Bicycle Union and Tricycle Association amalgamation sub-committee, Brighton Cyclists' Club's first annual meeting, and at the close the list of exclusively tricycling clubs in London and the provinces.
- By Harry A. Venables (Civil Service B.C.), practical notes comparing single-driver and double-driver tricycles, the Humber, Rudge, Imperial Cheylesmore, Premier and Excelsior, on vibration, steering, friction from two chains and power lost through the crank rod, with the 1882 Tricycle Championship results as evidence.
- By D. M. M. Dawson of Newcastle-on-Tyne, arguing that cycling writers who describe their tours should research a district's history and antiquities rather than leave the reader to consult the guide-books.
- By T. H. S. W. of the Berlin B.C., the growth of cycling in Germany from the Frankfurt Congress of Whitsuntide 1881 and the Munich V.C.'s plan for a German Union, the Berlin monthly Das Velociped, Walker's scheme for a union on B.U. lines, and the Munich congress of 1882 with its nine Bavarian clubs.
- The club directory for London, set out by district with each club's headquarters, hon. secretary, captain, entrance fee, subscription, uniform, headgear, membership and year of formation, from Alma and Amateur to Argus and Athenaum; the introduction explains the eight classes used.
- Directory of English provincial clubs in alphabetical order by town, from Abbey Institute (Reading) and Accrington to Andover, Banbury and Barton-on-Humber, with the same particulars for each club, an asterisk marking the Union clubs.
- Directory of Scottish clubs by town, including the Aberdeen Rangers, Edinburgh, Dundee, Falkirk, Hawick, Paisley and Stirling clubs, with their headquarters, secretaries, captains and fees.
- Directory of Irish clubs, with the Belfast, Dublin, Tralee and Wexford clubs and their secretaries, captains and membership, and the Dublin Irish Champion club.
- Directory of Welsh clubs, with Cardiff and Swansea clubs, their headquarters, secretaries, captains, fees and uniforms.
- Directory of clubs in the colonies, including Montreal, Dunedin (New Zealand) and Demerara (Georgetown), each with its secretary, captain, subscription and membership.
- Directory of United States clubs by city, such as the San Francisco club and the Star club of Lynn, Massachusetts, with secretaries, captains, fees and membership.
- Directory of German, French and Austrian clubs by city, with sub-lists for Berlin, Bremen, Breslau, Cologne, Lyons, Munich, Paris and Vienna, each giving headquarters, secretary, captain, entrance fee, subscription and formation date.
- Directory of tricycle clubs, English and Scottish, with Finchley, Gloucester and the Scotch tricycle clubs, and the two Vienna clubs, the Wiener Tricycle Club and the Wiener Tri club formed in October 1882.
- Describes the C.T.C., founded 8 August 1878 and claiming nearly 7,000 members: over 1,000 recommended hotels, Chief Consuls and consuls in each town, routes obtained from the Chief Consuls, railway arrangements, a 2s. 6d. subscription and the uniform, with the rules of admission.
- Announces the uniform tariff the railway companies agreed through the Bicycle Touring Club for bicycles carried by passenger train with their owners, with a table of charges by distance from 1 to 400 miles.
- Describes the Bicycle Union, incorporated in 1878, as the legislative body of the sport, an association of the principal clubs with the Local Centres spreading its influence, and recognised by the Home Office and the Local Government Board as the representative body for wheel interests.
- List of the Bicycle Union Local Centres and their honorary secretaries: Birmingham (W. G. Parkes), Bristol (J. J. Neale), Devon and Cornwall (F. Blanchard, Plymouth), Dorset (R. R. Case, Dorchester), Liverpool (G. H. Rutter), Manchester (Thomas Anderson) and Newcastle (G. W. Douglas).
- The Bicycle Union's definition of a professional, one who has ridden for money or taught riding for money, and of a bicyclist who competes with professionals, with all others counted as amateurs and the Council's notes on its application.
- Describes the L.A.W., whose subscription is $1 (4s. 2d.), combining the Bicycle Union's and C.T.C.'s duties for American riders, organised through Chief Consuls and State representatives, with its secretary Fred T. Scholes of Cleveland, Ohio; the reviewer faults the Council for counting teachers of riding as amateurs.
- Alphabetical index of the riders who won or placed in the 1882 races, from Abbott, T. and Abel, C. through Kelly, P. and Reynolds, S. W., each name followed by the page of the racing record where it appears.
- Month-by-month review of the 1882 season: January club dinners and balls, the February Stanley Show, the Wanderers B.C.'s return to the Bicycle Union in March, the tricyclists' Representative Committee road ride of 9 September, which succeeded despite opposition in the press, Nixon's ride from John o' Groats to Land's End in under 14 days, and the James Starley memorial appeal.