The Bicycling World, Vol 10, No 3
Articles in this issue
- Leading editorial on the flood of complaints in the C.T.C. Gazette about "scampish" tricycles from certain well-known English makers, charged with using malleable iron axles instead of steel and solder instead of brazing; the World suggests buyers demand a guarantee from makers rather than have the Gazette publish names.
- Editorial companion to the Wheel World saddle article reprinted in this issue, arguing that badly constructed saddles with excessive upward sheer press on delicate glands, and that a proper saddle, a well-fitting machine and moderate use will prevent the alleged dangers of cycling.
- Unheaded editorial notes defending open criticism of League of American Wheelmen management, rebutting an English lady correspondent with examples of American lady riders (the Nemo Club, Orange, and Wellesley girls at Pope's riding school), reporting fraud suspicions over Webb's John-o'-Groats and Sutton's London-Edinburgh rides, and objecting to a 1-2 July date for the League meet.
- Letters favouring Buffalo for the next League meet (but not on 1-2 July), on the interchangeability of parts and made-to-measure machines, asking why Boston's larger clubs do not mount a tournament to rival Springfield and Hartford, and from C. H. Plumb of Indianapolis defending hollow rims and direct spokes on his 56-inch American Club.
- Manufacture department: an improved rubber-topped step for the American Star supplied by Zacharias & Smith of Newark, with notes on their new Leddell bicycle, Pope's promised tricycle, the Paragon Safety of Birmingham, Bale's divided seat, and Coventry Machinists' Company novelties.
- Article reprinted in full from the Wheel World examining Dr. Strahan's medical warning that narrow, up-turned saddle horns throw the rider's weight on the perineum, endangering growing boys especially, and advising riders to choose a saddle that removes pressure from the perineum.
- Buffalo correspondent "Skinney Variety" reports Indian-summer riding: a solo run to Niagara Falls via Tonawanda with breakfast at Schneider's, a six-man club run through Bowmansville, Mill Grove, Crittenden and Corfu, and the Buffalo Bicycle Club's plan to procure a winter riding hall.
- Mr. George Woodcock of Rudge & Co. hosts a dinner at the King's Head Hotel, Coventry, honouring H. D. Corey of Boston, Sanders Sellers of Preston and F. de Civry of Paris, presenting Sellers with a gold stop watch for his world-record 2:39 mile at Hartford, Conn.
- John S. Prince tells the Washington Republican how he beat the world's mile record in 2:39 on a 22-pound 55-inch Royal Mail against Richard Howell, details his training diet and regimen, and previews his handicap match against lady champion Elsa Von Blumen.
- Notes column opening with the poem "The Neophyte," then short items: F. S. Hunwicke's 189-mile day on the Otto, the Orange Wanderers' club photograph with Ixion on a Humber tandem, the new London paper Wheel Life, the unveiling of the James Starley memorial at Coventry, and the N.C.U.'s reserve fund.
- At Athletic Park, Washington, John S. Prince concedes two minutes and beats Elsa Von Blumen over five miles in 19:45; also Kansas City tournament results (Hardwick, Westbrook, Morgan, Eck, Louise Armaindo against time), races at Beloit, Wis., and the Westbrook-Eck masquerade as Patterson and Johnson at Omaha.
- The Chicago Bicycle Club's exhibition and race meeting at Le Grand Skating Rink under Chief Consul J. O. Blake, the Thorndike Club's Thanksgiving-eve ball at Beverly, Kenton Wheel Club officer elections in Covington, Ky., the Germantown Club's new house, the Maverick Wheel Club assembly in East Boston, and the newly organised Louisville Wheel Club.
- American Division notices from Chief Consul Frank W. Weston of Savin Hill, Boston: the list of State consuls, provisionally elected members in Albany, the appointment of F. S. Harris as Pennsylvania State consul vice G. D. Gideon, and Canadian Division particulars from Horace S. Tibbs of Montreal.
- Answers to readers' queries: the Boston Bicycle Club is America's oldest, advice on club uniform colours, mending a cut tire with rubber cement, cleaning gummed bearings with benzine, the three sizes of the Rudge Safety, and the merits of the Lillibridge handle-bar.