The Bicycling World, Vol 8, No 12
Articles in this issue
- The editor previews manufacturers' plans for the 1884 season, including the Cunningham Company's Harvard, Yale and new $100 Cornell Roadster, the Coventry Machinists' Facile in Special and Extra Special patterns, the H. B. Smith Company's Star, Pope Manufacturing's Columbia Expert, and Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s British Challenge and Rudge machines, plus news that the Overman Wheel Company has bought the American rights to the Warwick rim.
- C. A. Hazlett of Portsmouth, N.H. tabulates over thirty rides of 100 miles or more made during 1883, including Karl Kron's 104.5-mile New York run, Thomas Midgley's sub-eight-hour Worcester times, and the Lawrence Club's 200-plus-mile 24-hour run by T. S. Webb, John Tacy and John F. Finn.
- A miscellany of pen-notes and squibs, opening with a parody poem on never doing anything since, followed by items on a proposed Harvard-Yale race, the Boston Ramblers' drill squad, Elliott Mason's move to New York's Citizens' Bicycle Club, and a Toronto correspondent's correction of R. J. McKee's Toronto-to-Belleville ride.
- Reprinted from the C.T.C. Gazette, editor Ernest R. Shipton reports on trials of Stanton's Log, the M. D. R. made by M. D. Rucker's firm, McDonnell's odometer and Underwood's odometer, finding most inaccurate or unreliable -- one instrument even dropping off the wheel mid-ride.
- Massachusetts L.A.W. Chief Consul Hill reports the division's membership (592) and finances, and the League's national cash statement for the year to 1 January 1884 is tabulated, including a $1,666 subscription to the official organ.
- Notes on the Capital Club of Washington's new officers, the Yale College Bicycle Club's meeting on May-race arrangements and a Harvard-Yale challenge, and the Lawrence Club's dinner honoring T. S. Webb, John Tacy and John F. Finn for their 24-hour record run.
- A review of the second number of Outing and the Wheelman, praising its century-run record table and the continuation of J. S. Phillips's "A Wheeling in Norambega," with a suggestion that its artist dress cyclists more becomingly.
- U.S. Chief Consul Frank W. Weston of Boston reminds members to send in renewal blanks and dues, announces a spring meet at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and lists new membership applicants C. H. Home of Chattanooga and G. A. Paillard of New York.
- The editor answers reader queries signed L. D., Paul H., Harry, H. E. D., F. H. B. and C. A. H. on topics including bicyclers' legal rights and disputed riding records.