The Bicycling World, Vol 10, No 22
Articles in this issue
- Editorial arguing that road cycling records are more valuable to the sport and trade than track records, noting the growing enthusiasm for road scorching and the trade's agreement that good road performance benefits cycling generally.
- Report on the house-warming of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club's new Newbury Street club house on Boston's Back Bay, with guests received by President Henry W. Williams, Captain Chas. P. Shillaber and Secretary Geo. Pope, followed by a detailed floor-by-floor description of the building.
- Lengthy correspondence letter from Karl Kron — currently racing to secure 3,000 subscribers for his cycling book — arguing that J. G. Dalton wrongly repudiated the '-er' termination in his second edition of Lyra Bicyclica by deferring to dictionaries over established usage.
- Correspondence letter from Spokes of Mobile, Alabama on proposed new professional racing rules, noting that the flying start provisions of the National Trotting Association rules could give judges authority to rule off riders who wilfully refuse to score up evenly.
- Notice that F. A. Elwell, organiser of the previous Bermuda cycling tours, is arranging a summer bicycle tour from Boston to Moosehead Lake and Bar Harbor, Maine, covering 150 miles of riding over eleven days at a cost of about $30.
- Item reporting that Thomas Stevens will resume his round-the-world bicycle ride, sailing from New York to Liverpool on 9 April aboard the City of Chicago, then departing on a 50-inch Expert Columbia from Liverpool on 1 May with a change of clothing and writing materials.
- Listing of recently issued U.S. patents relating to bicycle and tricycle design, components, and accessories.
- Manufacture item describing the Butcher Cyclometer Company of Boston's new $5.00 No. 2 cyclometer, a hub-mounted instrument with a positive, noiseless finger-and-fork action that registers up to 999 miles.
- Trade news led by W. B. Everett & Co. taking the American agency for Singer & Co.'s machines at Boston's 'bicycle corner', with further items on the Surrey Machinist Company's Invincible catalogue, Whittaker the hundred-mile road record holder adopting the Rudge Safety, Gideon Haynes leaving Bull & Haynes, and Pope Manufacturing donating a Columbia home trainer to Harvard's Hemenway gymnasium.
- Brief piece introducing the full-page cycling cartoon supplement included in this issue, with the magazine's artist representing the state of the sport by portraying the various types of modern bicycles and tricycles in use in 1885.
- Notes from the British and European cycling press covering international racing and industry news.
- Poem titled The Season's Mount, a humorous verse in which a cyclist debates which bicycle to purchase for the coming season, weighing the merits of different machines before choosing his spring mount.
- Technical article arguing for mineral oils over animal and vegetable fats for lubricating bicycle machinery, explaining that mineral hydrocarbons are superior because they do not convert into acids or gum up moving parts.
- Singer & Co.'s list of ten common misconceptions among cyclists about bicycle speed, weight, and performance — including the false belief that a heavier machine is stronger and that a large gear always means greater speed.
- Race results and upcoming fixture dates from American cycling competitions.
- Club news from American wheelmen's organisations.
- American CTC section notes and touring information.
- Editor's brief responses to reader letters and queries.
- Calendar of upcoming cycling race fixtures and sporting events.