The Bicycling World, Vol 12, No 24
Articles in this issue
- Overman Wheel Company continues its 1886 Victor Great Improvements advertisement featuring Prince David Kalakaua of the Sandwich Islands and his brothers as endorsers, inviting readers to send for the free illustrated catalogue.
- S.T. Clark and Co. of Baltimore continue to promote the New Rapid bicycle with its True Tangent Wheel, gold medal winner at the London Inventions Exhibition 1885, with energetic agents wanted everywhere.
- E.P. Burnham of Newton, Massachusetts writes to W.B. Everett and Co. praising his new Singer Straight Steerer, describing it riding from Chester Park to Newton Square in 24 minutes into a strong headwind, and successfully climbing Corey Hill without stopping.
- A comic letter signed by H.R.H. Pieta, King of Winnisimmet, and his brothers describes getting the 45-pound Star from James's uncle and finding it such a fast machine that the tires have no chance to come loose.
- J.A.R. Underwood announces Quadrant tricycles and new pattern Rover Safety available for immediate delivery, with machines available at a moment's notice throughout the spring season.
- The editors report that British cycling papers including Bicycling News have commented on the L.A.W. Racing Board's suspension of makers' amateurs, with the English press saying that should the American League carry its programme through it will demonstrate the possibility of stopping a scandal bound to destroy the sport if allowed to continue.
- The editors address concerns about the decline of racing among Boston riders, arguing that riders have simply transferred their interest from the track to the road, and that the Racing Board's new rule requiring records to be made in open events will reduce record-breaking in autumn 1886.
- The editors predict the cycle show to be held during the League meet will be a great success and exceedingly interesting, urging all wheelmen to attend and compare the leading machines.
- The editors note that the Stanley Show reveals nearly every large maker has built tricycles especially for ladies or modified existing patterns, arguing this shows a large increase in the number of lady riders and that wheelmen should ensure all ladies of their acquaintance are well mounted.
- A column of intelligence reports that Albert Schock wants $1,000 in cash before racing at Minneapolis; that a ladies' cycling club is truly imminent in Boston; that Daisy and Buttercup are to be president and captain; that the Ramblers and Missouris of St. Louis have reconciled; and that F.H. Ruggles, W.H. Edmands, E.C. Hodges, and others have all mastered the Rover.
- A feature article describes the vast Rudge and Co. works at Coventry covering six acres and employing 700 workmen, their improved spoke system with riveted single spokes replacing back-and-forth lacing, and their Boston agency at Stoddard, Lovering and Co. which carries four to six hundred Rudges in stock at all times for over 400 American agents.
- An advertisement confirms A.J. Wilson on a Rover Safety defeated Percy Furnival on an ordinary bicycle by 6 minutes 50 seconds in the 10-mile hare-and-hounds on 13 March; L.D. Munger intends to enter the coming 50-mile road race at St. Louis and plans to tour from New Orleans to St. Louis on his pet bicycle if roads permit.
- A report from Maryborough Record Court describes a Mr. Samuel West, a miller's agent who used his bicycle for business and carried a revolver on his collecting rounds, who appealed a £2 fine for shooting a dog that flew at him and imperilled his life while cycling.
- The club news column reports that Newmarket, Ontario is to have a bicycle club with officers appointed; the Massachusetts Club's road committee is completing arrangements; Ernest Benson and F.B. Carpenter both became Benedicts last week; and Messrs. Land and White have been attempting Corey Hill on a Cyclone tricycle.
- A notice advertises 'Intercepted Letters' as a feature in the Bicycling World that New York wheelmen should read, alongside the Weston Supply Company's announcement of their Cambridgeport cycle repair and parts shop.