The Bicycling World, Vol 12, No 1
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
F.F. Ives and W.A. Rhodes complete the best American twenty-four-hour road record by riding 241.5 miles on Victor bicycles from start to finish without changing mounts, finishing neck and neck.
- p. 5
The editor assesses why safety bicycles failed to fulfil their spring expectations, arguing that machines with merely small wheels do not constitute genuine safeties and that the public was misled by unscrupulous dealers.
- p. 5
J.A.R. Underwood reports that four well-known cyclists who toured England all independently chose the Quadrant as the best tricycle in England, returning with highly satisfactory results.
- p. 4
Overman Wheel Company lists the season's Victor achievements including no buckled wheel during 1885, a quarter-mile record by Geo. M. Hendee, and a fifty-mile road record by W.A. Rhodes.
- p. 4
The Star bicycle is credited with the L.A.W. half-mile, fifteen-mile, and twenty-five-mile championships plus a twenty-miles-and-135-yards-in-one-hour record, claimed as the only American machine holding such a record.
- p. 4
H.B. Smith Machine Co. of Smithville, New Jersey promotes the American Star as a practical roadster safe from headers, featuring continuous motion without dead centres and new flat-seated tires.
- p. 4
Llewellyn H. Johnson promotes the Humber Tandem at 98 pounds and the Automatic Steerer at 62 pounds with guaranteed strength and rigidity, genuine machines bearing the Beeston factory stamp.
- p. 2
Short listings covering Zacharias and Smith tire tape, Paradox oiler, Facile enamel and oil, A.G. Spalding polo goods, and assorted dealer notices from Boston and New York.