The Bicycling World, Vol 13, No 17
Articles in this issue
- The editors reproduce the full text of the English Local Government Board's model by-laws for bicyclists — lamp requirements, bell warnings when overtaking, road-positioning rules, and fines up to two pounds — refuting the claim that English cyclists face fewer restrictions than Americans.
- George E. Weber, born May 18, 1866, died August 24 of typhoid fever at Smithville, N.J. — the first American to cover twenty miles within the hour and the winner of thirty-six prizes in forty races, nearly all on the Star bicycle.
- The Hartford correspondent reports that race entries close September 2, that L.A.W. clubs statewide are sending delegations to the Division parade on September 8, and that Hartford's streets have been freshly top-dressed and rolled for the visiting cyclists.
- A Springfield correspondent describes tournament preparations at Hampden Park, with professionals Woodside and Morgan and promateurs Ives, Rhodes, Percy Stone, Kluge, and Charlie Adams training daily, and Australian Langdown awaiting a trainer procured by the Springfield Club.
- The Committee on Rules and Regulations recommends that the President and Vice-President be elected by members at large, the Treasurer receive a $200 annual salary, and the Secretary-Editor's office be filled by annual vote rather than fixed tenure.
- A. Kennedy Child of the Ripley Road Club, London, protests the attempt by a rival cycling editor to sow distrust between English and American cyclists, declaring from personal knowledge of last year's English contestants that they were delighted with Springfield's prizes and that the antagonism is purely that editor's individual bias.
- Karl Kron (pen name of the author of 'Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle') defends his right to be known only by his trade-name and reprints his letter rejected by the Cycle, arguing it was bad journalism not to print L. H. Johnson's full response defending the Orange Wanderers' stand on 'equal rights for all upon the road.'
- London correspondent 'The Bard' reports a remarkable week of English record-breaking — G. P. Mills rode 273 miles in 24 hours on a bicycle, A. P. Englehart took the five-mile bicycle record on a Kangaroo, and Buckingham broke the five-mile tricycle record — and notes that the Bicycling News is campaigning to prevent English riders from attending Springfield.
- A detailed account of Harry Corey and W. H. Huntley's 24-hour tandem road ride from Newtonville on a Rudge Humber Tandem, covering 202 miles with pacemakers from the Nonantum Cycling Club, broken into nine legs with the riders averaging more than eight miles per hour over the full day.
- This supplement describes the Lynn Cycle Club Track Association's three-lap clay-and-gravel track — incorporated March 26, 1886, with a raised corner banking of twenty-one inches — noting current trainers including Rowe, Hendee, Neilson, and Merrill, and previewing the upcoming fall tournament offering $5,000 in prizes.
- An American cyclist visiting Ireland describes riding a hired Kangaroo bicycle through Phoenix Park in Dublin, then attending the Cork Cycling Club's tournament at Mardyke Grounds where McTaggart edged Lowry by six inches at the tape to win the South of Ireland six-mile championship.
- The editors interview Col. Pope on the Pavonia's arrival after his two-month European trip; he reports that English cycle manufacturing has settled into steady growth rather than rapid expansion, that tricycles are widely used as delivery vehicles in London, and that American machines now equal their English counterparts in quality.