The Bicycling World, Vol 7, No 14
Articles in this issue
- The editor discusses medical endorsements of cycling as exercise, sharing opinions from the medical fraternity.
- Review of H. B. Hart's patented (10 April 1883) bicycle bell of Philadelphia, praising its one-piece cast bowl-and-base construction that stops the bell rattling loose, priced at 75 cents (small) and $1.00 (medium).
- H. D. Corey of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club rode an Extraordinary Challenge bicycle down the eight-mile Mt. Washington carriage road in one hour five minutes, seventeen minutes faster than Corson's earlier descent on a Star.
- The Boston Ramblers, led by Capt. Howard, take a run to South Natick via Chestnut Hill Reservoir with visiting guests from the Lowell, Marblehead, Lynn, and Salem clubs.
- Reports F. Sutton winning the Union's five-mile championship at Aston, recounts the London Tricycle Club's 24-hour race (Marriott beating Vesey with 2184 miles), and criticizes the Pope Manufacturing Company's influence over League and Springfield race affairs.
- Correspondent "Krank" reports fast sociable-tricycle rides on the Syndicate route and the program for the Montreal Bicycle Club's third annual race meeting, 1 September at the Montreal Lacrosse Grounds.
- Billed as the first long-distance tricycle road ride on record in America: C. E. Heath rode a Victor Rotary from the Cattle Fair Hotel, Brighton, to Springfield, one hundred ten miles in 13h. 40m. running time, accompanied partway by W. W. Stall and C. W. Clapp.
- Chicago riders returning from the Canada tour complain the new Star bicycle caused repeated pile-ups on the road; the Chicago Club plans tours to Waukegan and, via Milwaukee, through Waukesha County.
- Continuing (part II) the account of the Canadian wheelmen's tour: the party is caught in a violent storm between St. Thomas and London, fords flooded roads and bridges, then rides on through Brucefield to Bayfield and Goderich on Lake Huron.
- Miscellany column: corrections on the Corey/Corson Mt. Washington descents, a Louisville rider raffling off old bicycles, Capt. C. W. Howard and Lieut. J. H. Vivian's Charlestown Club tour toward New York, and the Boston Ramblers' torchlight parade and drill at the Cottage City tournament.
- Covers the Buckeye Club tournament at Columbus, Ohio (Neil, Chandler, Hull, McCune, Tress), a Cottage City three-mile race, a dispute over John S. Prince's official quarter- and half-mile times, and the Albany Bicycle Club's planned September races between Prince and the English champion Higham.
- The Staten Island Bicycle Club reorganizes as the Staten Island Wheelmen; new clubs reported include the Wakefield (Mass.) Bicycle Club, the Eagle Bicycle Club of Boston's West End, and a run by the New London, Ohio, Bicycle Club.
- Reports the League of American Wheelmen's constitutional amendments (membership fees, chief consuls and State Divisions, amateur and racing rules) adopted by a 500-ballot mail vote.
- Notes the C.T.C., founded 1878 and about 10,000 strong, gives contact details for U.S. membership applications while the chief consul attends the seventh annual Harrogate meet in England, and advertises the new club uniform photographs and 1883 handbook.
- Answers to correspondents on bell attachment, chain tension, pedal-slipping, the best cycling route from Chelsea to Salem, tricycle brakes and hill-climbing, oiling ball bearings, and gearing mechanisms for tricycles.
- Calendar of club runs and race meetings through early October 1883, including the Maryland Bicycle Club's Sunday runs, the Marshall (Mich.) and Medina (Ohio) tournaments, the Lexington (Ky.) and Kings County Wheelmen (Brooklyn) race meetings, and the three-day Springfield Bicycle Club tournament, 18-20 September.