The Bicycling World, Vol 2, No 9
Articles in this issue
- New Year editorial column noting the dissolution of the Hodges–Pratt–Weston partnership and Charles E. Pratt's assumption of sole editorship, announcing new newsdealers, and offering New Year greetings to all who ride or read about riding.
- Announcement of the League of American Wheelmen's new 'Club Headquarters' clearing-house in Boston for touring wheelmen, explaining membership grades, dues, and the services offered to riders passing through any LAW consul city.
- Continuation of the technical series covering handlebar and handle designs, tread widths, the tubular backbone system, and ball-bearing types, drawing comparisons between the leading English and American high-wheel machines.
- Humorous letter from the anonymous wife of a Boston cyclist cataloguing her domestic inconveniences since he took up the wheel: muddy uniforms, all-day Saturday absences, and his insufferable talk of mileage records and road surfaces.
- Baltimore correspondent reports on a club excursion from the city centre to Towson over new macadam roads, noting distances, comparing the surface favorably with Charles River Park, and mentioning ongoing road-repair petitions to city authorities.
- Survey of cycling news from English and French journals: the Stanley Cycling Club's winter road records, tricycle developments at the Coventry factory, and early reports of a woman completing the Paris–Bordeaux road by bicycle.
- Short items: Julius Renz of the Boston Bicycle Club completing his 1880 annual mileage log; G.P. Mills of England setting a new 24-hour road record; and notice of the planned Boston indoor riding tournament for February.
- 'Knick O'Bocker' on the New York Bicycle Club's January meeting, a challenge race between the Manhattan and Mercury clubs, Miss Von Blumen's return to the city, and miscellaneous mid-winter club gossip.
- Brief reports from the Providence Bi. C. on winter membership, the New Haven club's indoor practice sessions, and a note from the Yale Bi. C. on the election of their first formal officers.
- Letters on the best winter lubricant for bicycle chains, a query about mounting a lamp on a Columbia, and a reader's account of testing a new ball-bearing hub on Boston's winter roads.