The Bicycling World, Vol 12, No 12
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
Overman Wheel Company announces it has purchased the US patent for the Acme Bicycle Stand from Charles Wicksteed and will manufacture and sell it to riders and the trade, advertising it as the only perfect device for holding a bicycle either side up.
- p. 1
Overman Wheel Company invites all inventors of cycle devices to contact them, stating they want the best of everything in their Victor cycles and are willing to pay for innovations.
- p. 2
E.C. Hodges and Co. publish a full page of cycling books and periodicals including Health upon Wheels, Cortis on Training, Club Songs, Sturmey's Safety Indispensable, Road Book of Boston, and the Cyclist Christmas Number for 1884.
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Stoddard, Lovering and Co. promote the Leaping Saddle as the best saddle of the 1886 season, noting it is equally applicable to bicycle or tricycle with perfect tension adjustment and an india-rubber buffer.
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The Bicycling World office promotes its Common Sense binder at one dollar and its bound volume set from Volumes I to XI at two dollars each, calling the set a complete history of cycling.
- p. 3
The Springfield Wheelman's Gazette runs its standard advertisement at fifty cents a year, noting its typegraphy is unsurpassed and its circulation second to none among cycling readers.
- p. 3
Anson P. Merrill and Co. of Falls River, Massachusetts continue promoting the Missing Link automatic bicycle lock, now also available in a tricycle version that locks through the small wheel on the fork prongs.
- p. 3
Short listings from Boston, Philadelphia, Newark, and Chicago covering Paradox oiler, Boston bicycle shoe, Murray's American bicycle eastern agency, and Spalding polo goods.