The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette
đź“… Weekly
📆 1880-01-15 to 1880-05-13
đź“š 13 of 312 issues
📆 1880-01-15 to 1880-05-13
đź“š 13 of 312 issues
The Bicycling Times and Touring Gazette is a British weekly (London-based) cycling journal covering England’s bicycle scene—London clubs (Hackney, Highbury, Canonbury), Coventry and Birmingham manufacturers, Sheffield and Nottingham trades, and provincial riders visiting London. Recurring sections include editorials, club news and correspondence, Bicycle Union/legislation reports, race and long‑distance championship accounts, touring and route notes, technical descriptions and patent notices, a detailed Bicycle Trade Directory, equipment reviews/ads (tyres, lamps, saddles, bags), practice‑ground and school notices, and miscellany (poetry, puzzles). Readers are clubmen, racers, tourers, makers and dealers; distinctive for exhaustive trade listings and practical touring/racing guidance and consumer advice for cyclists.
13 Issues
The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette, Vol 6, No 9 ⧉ (1880-01-15)
Stanley Exhibition Feb 3–5; proposes Bicycle Union secure dedicated ground funded by 500 life members at 2 guineas; Alert B.C.-Bicycle Union dispute; club fixtures, dinners, Dewsbury race.
The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette, Vol 6, No 10 ⧉ (1880-01-22)
Editorial urges London bicyclists to secure track at Willesden Junction; announces Six Days race and exhibition at Agricultural Hall (Islington) from March 15; Terront favored over Waller; club notes.
The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette, Vol 6, No 12 ⧉ (1880-02-05)
Editorial attacks mass road racing—criticises London Bicycle Club's Whit Monday Bath-to-Hounslow race; reports Stanley exhibition, manufacturers (Singer, Alfred Street Mills) and club doings (Belgrave, Huddersfield, Isle of Wight).
The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette, Vol 6, No 13 ⧉ (1880-02-12)
Issue reports Bicycle Touring Club's large London meeting debating management, relationship with Bicycle Union, touring priorities; adverts for James Carver bicycles, Buglet bugles, Lee's folding stand, training apparatus.
The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette, Vol 6, No 14 ⧉ (1880-02-19)
Debate on Bicycle Touring Club's 'official organ'; Stanley B.C.'s push for seven‑acre Willesden Junction (Wormwood Scrubs) racing track; club fixtures and race dates; Carver and Britannia adverts.
The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette, Vol 6, No 15 ⧉ (1880-02-26)
Feb 26, 1880 issue: provisional committee formed to create a Metropolitan bicycling track; Hampton Court monster meet approved; club fixtures listed; Arab bicycle improvements and Alexandra Palace races announced.
The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette, Vol 6, No 16 ⧉ (1880-03-04)
The Bicycling Times (1880-03-04) reports race calendar (Stamford Bridge events), proposes Metropolitan track at Willesden Junction, advertises James Carver bicycles and Palmer & Holland double-ball bearings; club runs listed.
The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette, Vol 6, No 19 ⧉ (1880-03-25)
March 25, 1880 issue: editorial attacks amateur 'pot-hunting' and gate-money meetings; Club Doings reports (Alcester, Alert, Belgrave, Border City, etc.); Ariel Works advertisement for Rigid Tangent Wheel.
The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette, Vol 6, No 21 ⧉ (1880-04-08)
1880-04-08 issue: Eolus bearings (William Bown), race feats of H.L. Cortis and T. Andrews, makers' directory, Simpson & Son's Defiance/Albert bicycles, editorial criticizing 'false entries.'
The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette, Vol 6, No 22 ⧉ (1880-04-15)
Surrey Bicycle Club dispute over H.L. Cortis’ amateur status and racing entries; manufacturers’ directory lists Simpson & Son, Palmer & Holland, James Carver; electroplating, bugles, oils advertised.
The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette, Vol 6, No 23 ⧉ (1880-04-22)
Issue publishes Pickwick Bicycle Club letter on the Amateur Question; extensive makers' directory; Simpson & Son advertise new Defiance/Albert models; nickel electroplating promoted; metropolitan club run listings.
The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette, Vol 6, No 24 ⧉ (1880-04-29)
Issue of The Bicycling Times (29 Apr 1880) with manufacturers' adverts (Palmer & Holland bearings, Humber, Starley Bros.), Lillie Bridge practice, Mildmay Bicycle Club formation, club fixtures, oils, tyres.
The Bicycling Times Touring Gazette, Vol 6, No 26 ⧉ (1880-05-13)
Issue of The Bicycling Times (13 May 1880) features Butler's Rat‑Trap pedal, Lamplugh & Brown suspension saddles and bags, trade directory of UK makers, Lillie Bridge practice tickets, nickel‑plating services.