Wheels and Wheeling
Contents
- Chronicles American cycling from its 1876 Centennial Exhibition debut through the safety bicycle's rise to mass popularity by 1892.
- Narrates the League's founding in 1880, its road-improvement campaigns, racing governance, and organisational history.
- Explains Macadam's road-building principles and argues for their application to improve cycling conditions across America.
- Comprehensively traces bicycle design from the draisine through hobby-horse, boneshaker, ordinary, and rear-driving safety types.
- Illustrates and describes the full range of tricycle types, from early sociables to modern rear-drivers, with detailed comparisons.
- Reviews tandem tricycles, sociable side-by-side machines, and tandem bicycles, emphasising their social appeal for paired riders.
- Catalogues eccentric and experimental machines that diverge from standard types, including one-wheelers and odd novelty cycles.
- Surveys spring frames, cushioned saddles, pneumatic handlebars, and other inventions designed to reduce road shock.
- Describes approximately seventy varieties of cushion and pneumatic tires, illustrated and sourced directly from manufacturers.
- Profiles cycle manufacturers and trade suppliers who advertised in the volume, with descriptions of their products.
- Lists over 350 cycle names sold in the United States, with manufacturers and importers, forming a complete trade reference.