The Bicycling World, Vol 12, No 22
Articles in this issue
- Overman Wheel Company runs a new advertisement for the 1886 Victor bicycle featuring Hawaiian Prince David Kalakaua and his brothers as endorsers, inviting riders to send for the free illustrated catalogue.
- S.T. Clark and Co. of Baltimore promote the New Rapid bicycle's True Tangent Wheel, which won the only gold medal for bicycles at the Inventions Exhibition in London 1885, with endorsements from The Cyclist, Bicycling News, and Illustrated Sports.
- W.B. Everett and Co. introduce the Apollo bicycle with detachable handle bars and ball bearing head at 35 pounds for a 50-inch, and the Apollo Semi-Racer at 30 pounds with rubber grips on both wheels and Kelsey ventilated spade handles, the same style ridden by Hunger on his 24-hour record-breaking trip.
- W.B. Everett and Co. announce the first consignment of 1886 Singer tricycles just received, featuring 40-inch drivers, 22-inch automatic steerer, hand and foot power brake, and Singer's patent axle with four bearings.
- The Chelsea correspondent James writes from Deer Island prison noting he invested his last $25 in Stall's Screamers which he gave to the other prisoners, and that they can hear them all the way from where he is.
- J.A.R. Underwood promotes Quadrant tricycles as ready for immediate delivery and the new pattern Rover Safety as leading all safeties, urging riders not to miss the best of the riding season.
- A publisher's notice announces that The Bicycling World, previously published by E.C. Hodges and Co. under editor Abbot Bassett, will now be issued every Friday by the Bicycling World Company under the joint editorship of C.W. Fourdrinier, J.S. Dean, and Frank W. Weston.
- The new editorial staff introduces themselves: Fourdrinier as a veteran cyclist and former contributor writing as 'Handy Andy', Dean as 'London W.' who has contributed descriptive and critical articles for over five years, and Weston as the paper's founder and first editor.
- A column of cycling intelligence reports that Jack Prince's racing stud will include a 22-pound racer, 28-pound semi-racer, and 32-pound tricycle all built by Singer to his own specifications; that the new Columbia Racer uses the Rapid spoke arrangement; and that Kirkpatrick is being urged for L.A.W. presidency with opposition to Ducker growing stronger than expected.
- An editorial defends the Racing Board's method of procedure by citing English legal precedent from Dawkins v. Antrobus and Loubat v. Le Roy, arguing that a club committee reaching conclusions from notoriously known facts need not compel witnesses' attendance, and that the difference between club proceedings and ordinary judicial proceedings is very apparent.
- The long-running epistolary column by 'Jack Easy' returns after an absence to deliver a self-described 'good blowing up' of the cycling world, covering the Kilkenny cat business among rival cycling papers, the power behind the L.A.W. throne, what a cow knows about cycling, Papa Weston's anti-sociable position, and various conclusions and facts about the current season.
- A report from the Stanley Show describes the improved Cunard tandem with sliding tubes for load balance, reducible to 27 inches width like the Quadrant; Lamplugh and Brown's folding luggage carrier for attaching bags to the backbone; and W. Morgan's joining-up link for opening chains without forcing.
- The editors report that the Overman Wheel Company placed an injunction on undelivered copies of the Springfield Wheelmen's Gazette over a disputed front-page advertisement, and correct newspaper claims that Overman had given a bond dissolving attachments or was petitioned into insolvency, stating neither report was true.
- A correspondent describes the new L.A.W.-managed tour replacing the former Big Four Tours, with an itinerary leaving Buffalo by rail to Canandaigua, cycling to Geneva and Watkins Glen, through New Jersey to New York by wheel, steamer to Old Point Comfort Virginia, and rail back via Staunton.
- Overman publishes a detailed account of their tricycle manufacturing history from 1883, explaining why they took a license from the parties claiming control, why they surrendered it in May 1884, how Pope's subsequent injunction petition was denied by Judge Colburn, and the terms of their 1885 contract with Pope under the Bown adjustable ball bearing patent.
- A short note reports the Chelsea Club is no more and a new one will be formed, followed by brief replies to correspondents including Gormully and Jeffery (congratulated), a subscriber advised to read the next issue, a Makers' Amateur told the Racing Board demands proof, and E.H. Carson notified that Health on Wheels has been sent.