Official Bulletin and Scrap Book of the League of American Wheelmen, Vol 12, No 1

Articles in this issue

• A New Year and a New Bulletin.

  Bassett's leading editorial explains the change in size and title (the ninth name for the League journal, dropping "organ" for "Bulletin"), then reports Theodore F. Merseles's letter-writing campaign that brought twenty-seven former members back, including James E. Sullivan, Robert Bruce and Sidney Bowman.
• Our New Year's Sermon.

  A reflective editorial praising Tennyson's poem "The Death of the Old Year" and the virtue of appreciating the past, closing with founder Will R. Pitman's tribute to the late cycling pioneer Wm. E. Gilman.
• The Queen of the Road.

  A reprinted Punch poem in cockney dialect in which a working girl declares herself queen of the road, cycling with her sweetheart Bert and preferring her bike to a high-born lady's motor-car.
• [The wooden rim controversy]

  Reprinting "Scorcher" of the Irish Cyclist dismissing wooden rims as inferior to steel, the Bulletin rebuts him for the United States, where manufacturers turn out hundreds of thousands of bicycles a year all fitted with the more resilient wooden rim.