The Bicycling World, Vol 12, No 10
Articles in this issue
- The lead editorial examines the Milliken case and its implications for cyclists' legal rights, arguing that the League of American Wheelmen must take an active role in challenging local ordinances that unconstitutionally restrict bicycle riding on public roads.
- The cover picture, reproduced from the Wheel World and drawn by George Moore, illustrates the rivalry between the Rover and Kangaroo safety bicycles as instanced by their recent struggle for the hundred-mile road record.
- Letters covering Stoddard, Lovering and Co. on the Genuine Humber split between Marriott and Cooper and Humber and Co.; Eagle Rock Hill climbing by Ixion on a Facile; a Clipper endorsement of the Facile; long cranks for road riding; a detailed defence of the chain-geared safety (Number Two); A Lady Rider on lever-steering machines for women; Amateur urging cycling to follow baseball and drop the amateur distinction; Old Fellow on a safer ordinary; A. G. Coleman on Kangaroo riding over Bermuda's roads; and 5678 comparing the Humber and Sparkbrook tandems.
- The editor's New Year miscellany column, including items on first rides of 1886, C.T.C. renewal deadline, a Mikado parody from the London Bicycle Club dinner, the home trainer race promoted by Bull and Bowen, Kluge's climb of Turnpike Hill in the Orange mountains, Bob English and makers' amateurs, and the next Springfield tournament.
- A detailed illustrated description of the new A.P. Merrill and Co. bicycle lock with its bolt-and-crook mechanism for securing both wheels, followed by an inspection of the Genuine Humber Tandem presented to Harry Corey by Rudge and Co., giving full specifications and noting improvements to the semi-circular handle-bar and chain guard.
- Daisie's New Year column apologises for being crowded out the previous week by the Review of the Year, reflects on 1885 as an auspicious year for women riders, announces plans for a ladies' run at the L.A.W. annual meeting in Boston, and closes with New Year's wishes to all her cycling friends.
- A humorous series of fictional New Year's diary entries from leading wheelmen and cycling figures including Col. Pope, Bob Huston, T.W. Eck, J.G. Dalton, Lon Peck, Papa Weston, and others, each entry lampooning its subject's known characteristics or controversies.
- International cycling notes covering John Keen's water cycle record on the Thames, Bishop Jenner's tricycle accident at Stourmouth, the fourth Speedwell Show in Birmingham, the Stanley Show at the Royal Aquarium in February, the Wheeling record medal dinner, and the mysterious Lloyd Brothers variable gear expected to supplant chain-geared safeties.
- A report on the twenty-six-hour bicycle race at the Washington Rink in Minneapolis between William M. Woodside and T.W. Eck, with Woodside's new American board-track records from 52 to 66 miles after Eck sprained his ankle, plus the Lynn Cycle Club's new twelve-acre track lot.
- Club news including the Springfield Club's annual ball on 22 February marking the city's 250th anniversary, the Charlestown Bicycle Club ball at Monument Hall, the Kings County Wheelmen's fifth annual reception in Brooklyn, and the Columbia Bicycle Club of North Attleboro's officer elections under president O.W. Clifford.
- The C.T.C. department under acting chief consul C.H. Potter of Cleveland lists the appointed State consuls from Connecticut to Wyoming Territory, provisional membership applications from Philadelphia, New York, Wilkesbarre and Plainfield, and new hotel appointments in Greenville and Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania.
- Brief replies to readers, including a note that Lallement missed the advantage of the Rover safety's vertical action, and Geo. Smith — holder of the hundred-mile Rover records — declaring the Rover the fastest machine ever made, sold in Boston by J.A.R. Underwood of Dorchester.