Vol 46, No 10
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Articles in this issue
- With the Miami Cycle & Mfg. Co.'s catalogue the first of the season, the Racycle Pacemaker No. 80 coaster-brake model rises from $60 to $62.50 and a cushion-frame coaster model is added at $67.50, while the racer falls from $55 to $52.50 and the ladies' roadster from $47.50 to $45.
- The Rahway, N. J., tire-plug makers Cox & Tingley part company: Cox forms Cox & Spencer, and C. O. Tingley carries on on his own account.
- The Hanna Cycle Material Co. of Buffalo is succeeded by Kellner & Ihde, Mr. Kellner having bought out Roswell J. Hanna's interest and formed the partnership with E. A. Ihde.
- Walter Dean, formerly a Goodyear traveller, takes charge of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s bicycle department at Akron, succeeding S. G. Rigdon.
- The Post & Lester Co., well known Hartford, Conn., jobbers, plan to move to New York about the beginning of the new year.
- Fire on the morning of 26 November partly destroys the Wheeler Mfg. Co.'s saddle and leather-grip works at Detroit, with a loss of about $15,000.
- The New York State Association of Jobbers of Bicycle Supplies will be made a national organisation at a meeting at the Astor House, New York, on 15 December, the formal call being mailed this week.
- The 1903 Columbia and other American Cycle Mfg. Co. bicycles will have a spring-cushioned front fork, resembling a miniature of the cushion frame, in addition to the two-speed gear.
- The coaster-brake deal hinted at weeks ago is still hanging fire, awaiting the return of one of the interested parties later this week.
- Previews the tenth annual six-day race at Madison Square Garden, listing the sixteen teams (Stinson and Moran, McFarland and Maya, Elkes and Bald, Gougoltz and Kaser among them) and recounting winners from Plugger Bill Martin in 1891 to Walthour and McEachern last year.
- At a public hearing on the ordinance to license and tag automobilists in New York only one man spoke in its favour, and the aldermanic committee has decided to report adversely, while Alderman Oatman's road-rule amendment raising the speed limit for bicycles and autos to ten miles is to be reported favourably.
- The Century Road Club Association turns the tables on the Century Road Club of America by winning first place and first time prize, plus third to sixth and ninth, in the Americas' open 50-mile Thanksgiving record run, with the result table by handicap and actual time.
- An Australian house advertising a fresh lot of 100 Sterling bicycles, though the Sterling factory has been closed for years, suggests either that stock remains or that Australian riders are not fully posted.
- Exports of cycles and parts fall almost $30,000 in October, held up only by Japan's $35,619 of purchases, with a country-by-country table for October and the ten months showing the United Kingdom and Japan neck and neck.
- E. H. Corson abandons his motor bicycle journey from Boston to Milwaukee at Schenectady, beaten by snow and mud, and takes the train west; he plans to ride his Merkel back to Boston by a southern route.
- 'Ned' Lawrence is appointed superintendent of the Columbia factory at Hartford, succeeding W. J. Mead, who was brought from Chicago.
- The American Tube & Stamping Co. of Bridgeport, formerly Wilmot & Hobbs Co., will issue $1,500,000 of bonds for further development of its plant.
- Colonel Albert A. Pope has settled in New York with his family and taken apartments in the Cambridge.
- The 1903 Merkel motor bicycles of Milwaukee will carry the motor vertically at the crank hanger, use triple front forks and add a spring frame, which road trials near the factory have proved comfortable.
- Austrian cycle exports in the first half of 1902 reached 685,200 kr. against 671,800 kr. a year before, while imports fell from 141,750 to 126,000 kr., chiefly from Germany and America.
- L. H. Elmer, covering New England for John R. Keim, reports sales three times last season's and agents confident and full of faith.
- Judge Townsend in the United States Circuit Court for Connecticut extends the receivers of the American Bicycle Co. and the American Cycle Manufacturing Co. for three months.
- A. Schrader's Sons, the New York valve makers, suffer fire damage on Tuesday without material interruption of business.
- The leader answers why the paper gives so much space to motor bicycles, citing 'The Novice', and discusses last season's riding that outran sales, the dealers' handshaking season of renewed acquaintance, and the manufacturers' renewed confidence in the motocycle after an autumn revival.
- Mrs. G. N. Rogers of Schenectady, N. Y., America's first lady motor bicyclist, is pictured on her Royal with her husband and stepson A. L. Botham; she has covered over 500 miles since 1 September.
- A meeting at the Century Road Club Association's house, 310 West Fifty-third Street, is called to protest to the Board of Aldermen and the Mayor against the Marks street-sprinkling ordinance favouring the present contractor.
- At Dourdan, France, Derny takes both the kilometre (33 1-5 s) and mile (53 2-5 s) motor bicycle records on a specially built four-cylinder machine.
- Describes the Raleigh or Sturmey-Archer three-speed hub gear, a collaboration of Sturmey, Archer, Riley, Mills, Pellant and Bowden, with a sectional drawing, lettered key, gear table and explanation of how the epicyclic gear and clutches work.
- The French 'Retro-Direct' has two chain gearings, one driven by backward pedalling through an intermediate toothed wheel to give a low gear; M. Feass is said to have ridden it up a steep pass.
- Short notes of retail changes: S. H. Brainard succeeds Denton & Co. at Portland, Ore., and James Felker sells out to H. L. Sawyer at Madison, Me.
- Argues that true interchangeability of cycle parts is rarer and costlier than claimed, illustrated by fitting an adjustable wrench to a nut and by cones and axles ordered a year apart.
- Merchants seeking the trade of self-respecting people should keep stores and salespeople neat, quoting Printer's Ink.
- Merchants waste free newspaper space on boastful generalities, whereas press agents like the Barnum show's Tody Hamilton get whole columns in the New York Sun.
- A dealer's tip to start a stuck nut by tapping the end of the wrench sharply with a hammer or bit of rock.
- Wilson & Co. of Ottawa, Canada, forward a customer's letter puzzled by a punctured tyre, along with a subscriber's renewal from George W. Stevens of Attleboro, Mass.
- A motor bicyclist who calls himself the Novice contrasts the labour of motorless riders against the wind with his own motor bicycle, and describes troubles with the gasolene lever, mixture, a spark plug and piston rings, signing off in the column on page 234.
- Short head with a low drop handlebar is now rare except among 'scorcher' riders, as riders strive for moderation.
- The Ideal Plating Co. of Boston has patented an automatic saddle post, illustrated, that can be tilted and adjusted without a wrench.
- Treasurer Slee of the G. W. Cole Co. reports its '3-in-One' oil sales this November were exceeded only once in the company's history.
- Defends the chain as a good average performer, despite its faults, that delivers a surprisingly large share of the power to the rear wheel.
- Describes an English chain cover of separate overlapping steel shields sprung onto each link, preventing mud and dust falling on the chain.
- Recommends rubber pedals over rat-traps for winter riding, protecting the feet from numbness.
- Dan Canary, the trick rider, returns to New York with a forty-foot tower, wooden bowl and 380-foot spiral on which he will do his 'cycle whirl' act at Madison Square Garden during the six-day race, with his own account of the apparatus.
- A parable of two men and the motor bicycle: one sold to department stores whose samples then could not be found, because a clerk said the machine was in the company's garage.
- The Alpha Motor Cycle Club and the Kings County Wheelmen of Brooklyn partly amalgamate, ten Alphas joining as full members and gaining use of the clubhouse for storing motor bicycles.
- A trade man tells a Bicycling World representative how a motor bicycle bought direct from the makers arrived uninspected, with a missing handlebar wire and fouled plug, and why he now wants an agency for another make.
- A method of tempering taps by heating, quenching in salted water and drawing the temper to a straw colour in a heated cast-iron tube.
- A tall rider complains that makers have settled on medium frames and wants a high frame, having to order one specially made.
- The Bicycling World man meets a rider of a late model whose well-lubricated bicycle still emitted an irritating squeak he could not locate.
- Lists the American track records set in 1902, professional and amateur, motor-paced and unpaced, with Joe Nelson, Albert Champion, Major Taylor, F. L. Kramer, Walter Smith and Samuel Sulkin among the holders, plus world hour and paced records and a note on paced records abroad.
- Summary of patents including a pneumatic tire (Wilbraham Edmund and Alister Macnab), bicycle saddle cloth (Felix J. Schurmann), combined hot-air and gas engines for the Chicago Motocycle Co., frame joint for the Regas Vehicle Co., carburetters and a bicycle frame (Hoover W. Freed).