Vol 12, No 15
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The Bicycling World 12, no. 15 (1886). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/the-bicycling-world/vol12-15/
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Articles in this issue
- The L.A.W. Racing Board votes that no prize at a club championship meeting may exceed $50 in value, that entries of riders whose amateur standing is in doubt shall be rejected, and that no record will be entered unless made in open competition, board-track and under-cover records excluded.
- Massachusetts Division officers meet at the New Marlboro' Hotel with Chief Consul Ducker and Secretary Lawton to organize the May League Meet in Boston, appointing committees, Colonel A. A. Pope chairing reception, W. B. Everett transportation, W. W. Stall police, and fixing the Vendome as League headquarters.
- A portrait and profile of George Lacy Hillier, editor of Bicycling News, founder of the Tricyclist and co-founder of the Wheel World, defending him against American editors angered by his published doubts of American records; Hillier writes that he will probably visit America this year to race.
- Henry W. Williams of Boston lists new cycle patents, including Albert E. Wallace's velocipede wheel assigned to the Pope Manufacturing Company, Hugh Baines's tricycle of Toronto, Montraville Hoyt's suspended fluid-burning furnace, George Rothgiesser's bicycle saddle of Bielefeld, and John S. Morgan's bicycle leg of Lynn.
- James A. Chase of Hazleton, Pennsylvania argues that safety wheel diameters should sum to 66 inches, Facile 44+22, Quadrant tricycle 26+40, Rover 36+30, and that riding a minimum of 200 inches of rubber tire circumference combats road vibration.
- A rider signing himself "Facile" writes from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas praising the Facile as his mount for the season: two thousand miles over some of the worst roads in the country with only one broken spoke, a stanch roadster, good hill climber and safe coaster.
- Faed's London letter reports three Columbia bicycles bound for the Speedwell and Stanley shows, Singer & Co.'s Straight Steerer Cripper tricycle and non-convertible tandem, the new double-action cradle springs, the Sparkbrook company's first ordinary bicycle, Smeed and Kaye's refillable lamp, the crank-length controversy, the Quadrant Tricycle Company's new two-speed gear for the Facile, and the Surrey Machinists' Company's adjustable crank.
- A comic verse signed "Pedals" in which a suitor begs his beloved to elope on his sociable, only for the haughty maiden to retort that she doesn't ride sociables this week and he should vamoose and buy a tandem.
- A trade description of the light roadster built by Humber & Co. of Beeston, Notts to L. H. Johnson of East Orange, New Jersey's specifications, with Warwick hollow steel rims, red Para rubber tires and direct piano-steel spokes, the rigidity of direct spokes proved by the twenty-pound Humber racers of Fred Wood, Furnivall, Cripps and English at Springfield; a fifty-inch weighs thirty-three pounds at $145.
- Pope's spring catalogue brings price reductions of $5 to $15 and new features: a keyed-in hollow cow-horn handle-bar, Kirkpatrick saddle and double-grip ball pedals on the Expert, seamless hollow felloes and resultant spokes on the Light Roadster, a new Columbia Racer and a Kangaroo-type Safety; adjoining notes describe the Coventry Machinists' Japanese-styled catalogue and Gormully & Jeffery's forthcoming forty-eight-page catalogue.
- Bank clerk C. M. Goodnow of Westfield wins the gold cyclometer offered by J. A. Lakin & Co. for the greatest amateur mileage of 1885 with 5,056 miles on a 54-inch wheel, ahead of Harry Lakin's 3,991 and H. M. Farr of Holyoke's 2,800 on a safety; eleven contestants covered over 1,200 miles.
- The Boston Club votes to conduct an exhibition of cycles and accessories during the League's annual meet, on the favorable report of a committee chaired by J. S. Dean; city dealers have all agreed to exhibit and a skating rink will likely be hired for the week.
- An essayist signing "5,678" champions the tandem's introduction to American riders, recounting how he and his wife progressed from bone-shaker to a Humber tandem, praising its company, security, ease and speed, and advising patient moderate riding for couples learning together; about a dozen makes are to be imported this season.
- The editorial notes column opens with S. Wady's valentine verse "Building a Valentine", then reports Consul Ducker's hope for 1,000 Massachusetts men in the League parade, Geo. Fred Brooks's "League Waltz", Rhodes's record attempt in Bermuda, E. H. Corson of Rochester, N.H.'s three-and-a-half-year-old daughter rider, the twenty-seven-strong Bermuda tour party, and E. P. Howe's lever-driven tricycle shown at Northboro'.
- H. E. Bidwell of the East Hartford Wheel Club lowers the home-trainer mile record; Minneapolis six-day tournament receipts pay Schock about $960 and Woodside $600; Elsa von Blumen accepts W. A. Hoagland's 51-hour ride-versus-walk challenge at Auburn, N.Y.; a fifty-mile road race near St. Louis is announced for a gold medal offered by J. S. C. Landish of the American Wheelman.
- Club reports include officer elections by the Fort Schuyler Wheelmen of Utica (C. H. Metz president), Brockton's City Club (W. M. Pratt), and New York's Ixion Club; the Boston Club's clubhouse reception and ninety-seventh meeting, at which it voted to join the L.A.W.; the Troy club's tournament at Vallombrosa rink; the Missouris of St. Louis capping membership at two hundred; and the York County Wheelmen's ball at Saco, Maine.
- The American C.T.C. department under Acting Chief Consul C. H. Potter of Cleveland lists the state consuls so far appointed, from F. A. Jackson of New Haven to C. P. Wassung of Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, and provisionally elects four new members including applicants from Princeton, Illinois and New York.
- Brief editorial replies list the League meet cities from Newport 1880 through Boston 1886 and rule that a rider receiving expenses violates the racing rules but not the amateur rule.