The Bicycling World, Vol 12, No 2
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
Overman Wheel Company reiterates the Victor's 241.5-mile twenty-four-hour record by Ives and Rhodes, emphasising that the terrible strain of the feat proved the Victor's endurance beyond doubt.
- p. 5
The editor quotes a letter from H.E. Ducker reporting that English riders Fred Wood and another made Springfield tournament records that the Coventry Cyclist refused to recognise, allegedly because the records were set on competing machines.
- p. 5
Bull and Bowen of Buffalo promote the Pope Manufacturing Company's American Adjustable Long Distance Saddle at four dollars, noting its spring frame and eighteen-ounce weight.
- p. 15
W.W. Stall promotes the Star bicycle's claim to have ridden twenty miles and 135 yards within the hour, described as the only American machine or American rider holding such a record.
- p. 15
H.B. Smith Machine Co. presents the American Star as a safe practical roadster with new flat-seated tires and square-grooved rims, featuring continuous motion without dead centres.
- p. 15
Llewellyn H. Johnson's New York branch promotes the Humber Tandem and Automatic Steerer with guaranteed strength and rigidity, noting that genuine machines are stamped at the Beeston factory.
- p. 4
Overman Wheel Company boasts that not a single Victor bicycle buckled during the entire 1885 season, citing this as proof of the machine's superior construction.
- p. 2
Short listings from Boston, Buffalo, and Philadelphia dealers covering second-hand machines, Facile enamel and oil, polo goods, and Paradox oiler accessories.