Vol 2, No 9
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The Bicycling World 2, no. 9 (1881). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/the-bicycling-world/vol2-9/
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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.
- The editors extend New Year greetings to bicyclers and non-bicyclers alike, noting that next to riding is reading 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.
- Rules of the shared Boston Bicycle Club and Massachusetts Bicycle Club rooms: equal privileges, bicycle storage in the basement, lockers, guest rates and House Committee control, with a ban on liquor.
- 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.
- Notes the Pacific Coast Association's adoption of Creedmoor target values of 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 in place of 9, 7, 5, 3, 1, and the confusion this may cause in comparing published scores.
- Archery notes on Frank H. Walworth of Saratoga Springs and his 888 double York average for the Chieftain's Badge prize, with Will H. Thompson's best scores and Frank E. Roff's illness.
- The Toledo Archery Club of Ohio elects Dean V. R. Manley president, with W. T. Carrington, A. F. Goodyear and F. H. Bidwell among the officers.
- Secretary Will H. Thompson's delayed report with York round scores, chiefly Frank H. Walworth's 888 average and 941 double round, plus Mr. Hyatt's 811.
- '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.
- Yearly mileage returns from Director C. A. Hazlitt of Portsmouth, N. H., with 4,200 miles in nineteen months, and Captain W. F. Gullen's 1,996 miles over 184 runs in 1880.
- W. F. Gullen reports Brooklyn riding at a standstill under deep snow, with Brooklyn Club members meeting in their club rooms and a monthly meeting due.
- A correspondent replies to J. E. B. on crank lengths, proposing fixed 5-inch cranks with slotted extension plates giving 5 to 7 inches, and a tangent-spoke fixing idea.
- 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.
- Describes the Yale roadster, the Surrey Machinists Co.'s Invincible sold by Cunningham & Co., with hollow rims, tangent spokes, curved handle bars, cradle spring and a 38-pound 54-inch weight.
- League of American Wheelmen membership notice and report of the January board meeting, with President Pratt, Secretary Parsons and Directors Lamson, Beach and Hodges present.
- A comic reprint from the Pawtucket Gazette of Mr. Gallagher falling downstairs and across the dining-room floor in boots his son had left with roller skates attached.
- Subscription at $3.00 a year and advertising at $2.00 an inch, with remittance instructions to E. C. Hodges & Co., Boston.