The Bicycling World, Vol 12, No 19
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
Overman Wheel Company introduces the 1886 Victor Light Roadster with a narrower tread, improved compressed tire, new handlebar that is more readily detachable, solid vulcanite handles, and an adjustable step, claiming it the stiffest and easiest running bicycle on the market.
- p. 3
Wm. Read and Sons publish a full description of the 1886 Royal Mail's six improvements, including the Adjustable Ball Head which allows six months without readjustment or oiling, a new Grip-Fast rim and tire needing no cement, new detachable handle-bars, self-adjusting dust shield, and a new spoke-tightening method.
- p. 4
J.A.R. Underwood announces that 1886 Quadrant tricycles are at the Stanley Show and ready for immediate delivery, and introduces the Rover Safety as the machine leading all safeties, described as standard and as light as is consistent with safety.
- p. 4
E.C. Hodges and Co. list the Wheeling Annual Christmas Number containing thirty lithograph portraits of noted wheelmen in England and America, available by mail for fifty cents.
- p. 2
E.C. Hodges and Co. at 179 Tremont Street list cycling books available by mail including Health upon Wheels, Cortis on Training, Club Songs, Road Book of Boston, and British periodicals The Cyclist, Bicycling News, and Wheel World.
- p. 4
The fictional Chelsea correspondent James writes again describing his excitement about W.W. Stall's new hollow frame Star with ball bearings on the driving wheel and asking whether the forty-five-pound machine is worth the extra cost.
- p. 21
The issue contains continued coverage of the Overman versus Pope Manufacturing patent dispute, with Overman reiterating that they do not infringe and that five hundred machines are ready to ship.
- p. 23
Short notices from Boston, Philadelphia, Newark, and Peoria covering the Paradox oiler, Boston bicycle shoe, Leaping Saddle, Missing Link lock, Zacharias and Smith overhaul service, and Rouse easy payments.