The Bicycling World, Vol 6, No 2
Articles in this issue
- Editorial argues that cheaper bicycles will bring in a wider class of riders, personified as 'Harry Hornyfist,' noting a good machine can be bought for $50 in England versus a kept-up price in America, and citing English racers Howell, Moore, Palmer and Lowndes as proof that non-elite riders can still excel.
- Club column reports the Pennsylvania Bi. Club (20 members, officers Aaron/MacOwen/Howell/Roberts) planning a Thanksgiving Day meet, the Worcester Bicycle and Æolus Wheel Clubs merging into the 38-member Worcester-Æolus Wheelmen under President Fred S. Pratt, the Massachusetts Bicycle Club honoring its 'hundred miles in a day' riders Wilmot, Williams, Philbrick and Griffiths, and a joint election-day run of the Brooklyn, Kings County, Essex, Citizens' and Jersey City clubs (about seventy riders) to Orange, N.J.
- The Ixion Bicycle Club's first road race, a 15-mile course from Manhattan to Yonkers by way of Valentine's Lane, run on election day, 7 November; Howard won the gold medal in 1h.18m. ahead of Pitman (silver) and Sanford (leather), reported by secretary Ben. G. Sanford.
- A New York correspondent signed 'Chic.' mixes verse with club gossip on the Ixion Club's Yonkers race, the Citizens' Club run to the Oranges, Fontaine's Expert bicycle snapping its backbone on Riverdale Hill, the New York Club's plans for a juvenile branch and a ladies' tricycle, and Frank Fullerton training with Rowell's trainer Langford for an upcoming six-day race.
- Correspondent 'Steno.' describes the Chicago Bicycle Club's new winter quarters shared with the Chicago Yacht Club at 189 Michigan Boulevard, and a bicycle excursion to Niagara Falls by Capt. E. F. Brown, C. C. Philbrick and B. B. Ayers of the club.
- San Francisco correspondent 'Scratch Man' reports local clubmen planning a clubhouse with a ladies' tricycle branch, a fifty-mile run to San Jose in poor road conditions, and expects the Pacific Coast record to fall on Thanksgiving Day.
- Albert S. Parsons defends his arrangements for hiring a stenographer at the League officers' meeting at Boston's Hotel Vendome, describing the delays (the reporter's child died suddenly) that held up the World's copy, with the editor's bracketed rebuttals interspersed throughout.
- A correspondent signed 'Felloe' disputes the Pope Manufacturing Company's claim of victory over McKee & Harrington, arguing the patent suit was ended by a consent decree rather than won on the merits and should not be read as vindicating the company's claims.
- Signed 'A Friend to "Cyclos,"' the piece argues for flying starts and time handicaps over standing starts and distance handicaps to produce truer bicycle-race records, citing horse racing as a working model.
- F. M. Gilley's technical instalment gives formulas for gearing a tricycle's driving wheel up or down (e.g. a 40-inch wheel geared to 46-inch), warning that advertised gear sizes often misstate the true resultant wheel, with a note on the Otto tricycle's steel belting.
- Signed 'Trochos,' the article argues against the common advice to buy an undersized machine, citing Keith-Falconer's ride from Land's End to John O'Groats on a 58-inch Humber as proof that large wheels are not necessarily harder to ride.
- 'London W.' corrects The Wheelman's claim that Snook rode 214½ miles on a tricycle (it was a 42-inch Facile bicycle), answers Charles Pratt's remarks about the Pope Manufacturing Company's role in the Central Park arrests case, and notes Washington postmaster Ring's advocacy of tricycles for mail collection.
- Treasurer W. V. Gilman of Nashua announces that the League's fall officers' meeting in Boston on 20 October instructed him to sell off the old-pattern silver League badges at $2.00 (silver) or $1.00 (plated), postpaid.
- Julius Wilcox's technical comparison of the Facile and 'Xtraordinary Challenge safety bicycles' steering and power delivery, citing Sturmey's account in the Cyclist of Snook's 214½-mile Facile road-race ride on a 42-inch wheel.
- Miscellany column: Wilmot's 20-mile Royal Salvo tricycle ride to South Framingham, the Chicago Olympic Club's new bicycle department under cashier W. D. Wilmot, the Pope Manufacturing Company's donation of a bicycle to the Garfield Monument Fund exposition, the Stanley Bicycle Club's coming exhibition at Royal Albert Hall, and a planned six-day tournament at the New England Manufacturers and Mechanics' Institute featuring Prince, Mellen, the Harrisons, Mlle. Armaindo, Morgan and Smith.
- Reader Q&A column: advice to 'Pioneer' on bicycle-suit colors and club uniforms (citing the Boston, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Chelsea, Worcester, Boston Ramblers and Æolus clubs), a note disputing the Tremont Club's 154-mile day-ride claim, and a query about who first imported a bicycle into the United States or Canada.
- Reviews of Our Little Ones, The Century's twenty-fifth-volume opening (a Cole portrait of Florence Nightingale, pieces by Henry James and Edward Eggleston), St. Nicholas's tenth volume, and The Wheelman's November number featuring S. Conant Foster's poem illustrated by Howard.
- Programme notice for the Capital Bicycle Club's Washington, D.C. meet of Wednesday, 29 November 1882 — a parade reviewed by the President, League-sanctioned track races, drills and fancy riding — held for the benefit of the Garfield Monument Fund under secretary S. Preston Moses, Jr.