The Bicycling World, Vol 12, No 21
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
Overman Wheel Company continues its Victor 1886 campaign claiming the machine represents the most finished piece of wheel-building ever seen in the country and inviting anyone who has not seen it to call and examine it.
- p. 5
Dr. Dudley A. Sargent, director of Harvard College gymnasium, delivers a lecture at Union Hall on professionalism in modern athletics, touching on its value and abuse within organised sport including cycling.
- p. 3
Wm. Read and Sons report a great success with their 1886 Royal Mail model, noting that since the first lot arrived there has been a great demand and urging riders to book orders in time before supplies run out.
- p. 3
W.B. Everett and Co. repeat the announcement of L.D. Hunger's American 24-hour road record on a 57-inch Iver Johnson weighing 34 pounds, ridden without changing machines, claiming not a broken backbone or buckled wheel this year.
- p. 4
The Chelsea correspondent James reports being arrested seven times last week and paying $47.50 in fines for blowing his Screamer bell all day, and recommends readers send fifty cents to Stall at 509 Tremont Street for one by mail.
- p. 4
J.A.R. Underwood announces that 1886 Quadrant tricycles are ready for immediate delivery and that the new pattern Rover leads all safeties, with machines viewable and deliverable at a moment's notice.
- p. 2
E.C. Hodges and Co. at 179 Tremont Street list cycling books and periodicals for the spring season including the Wheeling Annual, Cyclist Christmas Number for 1885, Health upon Wheels, Guide to Bicycling, and Bicycling News.
- p. 19
Short listings from Boston and Philadelphia covering Paradox oiler, Boston bicycle shoe, Leaping Saddle, and Murray's eastern agency for American bicycle machines.