The Bicycling World, Vol 4, No 19
Articles in this issue
- Editorial on the proper standards of amateur bicycle racing, noting that the Stanley bicycle show in England drew over 80,000 visitors and that the Bicycle Union, Touring Association, and Bicycle Touring Club may amalgamate into an organisation with similar objects to the L.A.W. The editor also observes that a full review of the show is impossible as the paper depends entirely on English cycling press reports.
- Officers' election results and meeting reports from Albany, Capital, Essex, Somerville, Springfield, Montreal, Marlboro', Brockton, Buckeye, Crescent, Waltham, Troy, and Marblehead clubs. The Albany Capital Club reorganised with quarterly business meetings replacing monthly ones, electing E.H. Snyder president and adopting a new executive committee structure for day-to-day affairs.
- Letters defending the League of American Wheelmen against a critic who charged it has refused to protect wheelmen's rights and wasted resources on races and parades, with a respondent arguing that hundreds of cyclists know the League has done very much in all these directions. Other letters debate whether the League should be subdivided into regional branches and how to improve Chicago's roads in time for the proposed Meet.
- Humorous sketch in which Jones, having just acquired a lean second-hand 56-inch bicycle, proudly calls his wife out to admire it, then proposes to demonstrate his skills — with results that leave him a sadder and wiser man. The piece gently mocks the novice cyclist's overconfidence.
- Miscellaneous items noting that a well-known amateur racer will attend and participate in the Boston Bicycle Club's Fast Day race meeting if business permits, and that there is an earnestly expressed desire among wheelmen for a slow race to be held at the meeting as a championship event. The Solus Wheel Club announces it will wheel to Boston on Fast Day to attend.
- Listings of cycling periodicals available to American readers including The Cyclist (weekly, Coventry), Le Sport Velocipedique (bi-monthly, Paris), and Cycling (monthly, Newcastle-on-Tyne), with subscription rates and combined subscription offers with the Bicycling World. Contact addresses and the American annual subscription prices are given for each publication.