The Bearings, Vol 9, No 23

Articles in this issue

• Advertisement: Union Cycle Special

  Union Cycle Mfg. Co. of Boston promotes its 1894 Union Special racer — noting that Tyler and Sanger are proving its speed at the meets — with the Airtite-Dunlop detachable tire supplied as an option.

• Advertisement: Sterling Cycle Works

  Sterling Cycle Works of Chicago advertises its Sterling bicycle as built like a watch, with agents L.C. Jandorf in New York and Stokes Mfg. Co. in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Denver.

• Advertisement: Crescent Scorcher

  Western Wheel Works of Chicago offers the Crescent Scorcher with high frame, wood rims, and Palmer tires at 25 pounds for $90, challenging buyers to ask agents selling $125 wheels to explain the $35 difference in value.

• Advertisement: Palmer Pneumatic Tire

  Palmer Tire Co. of Chicago publishes race results showing Palmer-shod riders won 21 prizes from a possible 30 at Utica and 19 from 34 at Rome the previous week, including Sanger's new state mile record of 2:04 and Johnson's half-mile state record of 58.5 seconds.

• Advertisement: G&J Tires

  Gormully & Jeffery Mfg. Co. of Chicago lists dozens of road race victories by Rambler riders on G&J tires across 17 states, from Texas and Virginia to Washington and Massachusetts, calling them the choice of fast men everywhere.

• Advertisement: Dunlop Tire

  American Dunlop Tire Co. publicises that every English championship but two, every Irish championship but one, and every Scottish championship has been won on Dunlop tires since pneumatics were introduced, and quotes Harry Wheeler calling them the fastest path tires he has ever tried.