The Bicycling World, Vol 3, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Column of editorial squibs: a satirical definition of the 'fresh' rider, an argument that the two-mile race best balances speed and endurance, notice of a forthcoming League voting proposal from Pres. Bates, the three eras of bicycle club life, and word that the medals for the 28 May Beacon Park races are in manufacture.
- Editorial weighing Dr. T. W. Pavy's London Lancet theory that food holds 'locked-up force' against an American physician's experiments with the pedestrian Edward Payson Weston, concluding that muscular power lies in muscle built up by food and perfected by regular training.
- The countryman 'H.', kept off six inches of mud, forages from other papers: an electricity-driven tricycle demonstrated in Paris, Signor Scuri's and Mr. Sturk's one-wheel riding, a Burley's skeleton saddle awaiting trial, the straw-hatted Brighton Club at the Great Hampton Meet, the Wheel World's new editors Sturmey & Nairn, and a camphor-and-colza bicycle lamp-oil recipe.
- Humorous account by club president Bates of securing an enthusiastic leave of absence, finding Boston 'full of bicycle' at the L.A.W. League Meet, attending a mock-solemn 'spiritual gathering' led by Mr. Clark of Baltimore at the Providence Club rooms, and returning home to his Michigan club's suspicious delight.
- Touring narrative signed 'G.' of a wheel-and-wagon trip through the White Mountains: alternately good and bad roads from Colebrook through Lancaster and Jefferson Hill, an unridable stretch past Wood's Corner over a spur of Mt. Jefferson, and a camp at Glen Cottage ten miles from the summit of Mt. Washington, with oats fetched from Gorham.
- Club news: the Utica Bicycle Club organizes under president Otto A. Meyer and captain R. T. Peckham; Worcester's new Aeolus Wheel Club reports nineteen uniformed members, 5 a.m. runs to Millbury and hopes for a New England Fair meet; Waltham notes; and the Boston Bicycle Club's 'gander party' for first president George B. Woodward at Longwood, toasted by Charles E. Pratt.
- League of American Wheelmen notices: membership terms, application lists for the Worcester, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and New Haven bicycle clubs, and corresponding secretary Kingman N. Putnam's call for directors to report changes of consuls.
- Humorous narrative of a muddy run from Pittsburgh's Glenwood Station along the Monongahela by two Keystone Bi. Club members on Columbia bicycles, through Demmler and McKeesport (where a circus crowd mistakes them for the menagerie) to Buena Vista, twenty-one miles out before retreating by train.
- Race reports: a Philadelphia parade of ninety-five wheelmen and a Hestonville-to-Red Lion Hotel road race won by G. D. Gideon in 17:15 over F. W. Corse, and the Capital Bi. Club's second annual races at Iowa Circle, Washington, with fancy riding by Rex Smith and wins for Schooley, Coyle, Borden and Cook before 10,000 spectators.