The Bearings, Vol 12, No 27
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
At the New York Cycle Show, manufacturers refuse to announce rider signings until the L.A.W. and Board of Trade joint committee resolves the class question, though Cooper and Bliss are confirmed staying with Monarch and Stearns signals it will field a team in whatever class survives.
- p. 1
It is confirmed that Bald will stay in the United States for 1896 rather than tour abroad, will ride in Class B if it continues, and is reported to have signed with Davidson and Sons of Chicago for a salary rumored to be four to five times his previous year's pay.
- p. 3
The Stearns team at Santa Monica will expand to the largest record-breaking outfit ever assembled in America, including two sextuplets, two triplets, multiple tandems, and a quad, with circuit team candidates to be selected from the same group of men.
- p. 3
The Syracuse Cycle Co. is building its Crimson Rim team with Ziegler signed and Hamilton of Denver, Wells, and others in discussion, while Hamilton continues to astound observers at Santa Monica with his ability to hold any pace mile after mile.
- p. 2
Murphy is preparing to ride a mile-a-minute behind a Southern Pacific locomotive and training on home trainers, Cabanne vows not to race even if reinstated while privately consulting lawyers for a suit, and Titus has opened a bicycle store on the New York boulevard.
- p. 2
A survey of pre-season team formation confirms that at least twenty outfits are expected including the Windle, March-Davis, Combined Gear, Smalley, Lindsay, and Barnes teams, with Arnold Schwinn also preparing a B-class entry alongside Johnson's professional squad bound for Europe.
- p. 2
Murphy has nearly completed arrangements with the Southern Pacific Railroad to attempt riding one mile at exactly sixty miles per hour, slipstreaming behind a specially paced locomotive, a feat that will require both flawless track conditions and precise locomotive speed.