The Bicycling World, Vol 8, No 18
Articles in this issue
- Reviews the seventh annual Stanley Bicycle Club show, noting D. Rudge & Co.'s withdrawal after a dispute over an advertising banner, the trade's swing toward central-geared T-frame tricycles, and the Pickwick Club's vote to boycott the Hampton Court meet; also carries "Ixion's" rebuttal on loop-frame versus T-frame rigidity and a Cyclist quote from Henry Sturmey praising the Victor's ribbon steering gear.
- Recounts the disputed fancy-riding championship of the United States held at Springfield, where poor preliminary arrangements left contestants Canary and Tufts (who rode under protest) at odds and many wheelmen believing Tufts deserved the prize; defends the Springfield Bicycle Club and its president, Henry E. Ducker, from blame for the mismanagement.
- Trade notes on new accessories: a Lucas & Son handlebar lamp and a Star-pattern saddle bag, Hill & Tolman's alarm and Butcher's cyclometer for the Star (sold at Stall & Burt's), a rumored Coventry Rotary tandem import by Stoddard, Lovering & Co., and the Cunningham Company's stock of Rucker machines ahead of an upcoming clearance sale.
- A technical case for the loop frame over the T-frame/central-gear design, comparing how pedal thrust and road shocks strain the Columbia and Victor loop-frame machines versus the Sparkbrook National and central-geared Rucker tricycles.
- A mock-tragic tale of a club tandem bicycle whose frame ("backbone") snapped in a spill, was consigned to the scrap pile, then restored and put on show in the rink for novices to try, closing with a wish to see its next rider pitched into the river.
- Opens with the verse "The Bicycler in Winter," then notes English amateur W. Snook's move to San Francisco, F. A. Elwell's and "Karl Kron's" trip to Bermuda, and Stoddard, Lovering & Co.'s 60-inch Rudge racer built for George D. Gideon of Philadelphia's Germantown Club; continues onto p.219 with items on Viennese cycling bans, Will Pharr's handrail ride in Charlotte, N.C., the disputed New Haven racing records, and Wm. Lee Howard (London Times correspondent) joining the Boston Bicycle Club.
- Three letters: Chief Consul Edward K. Hill explains Massachusetts' twelve-representative apportionment by district for the pending L.A.W. election; Henry J. Hall, Jr. lists the signers of the "Atwood protest" (George R. Bidwell, F. V. Dougherty, Edward Pettus, and himself); and an anonymous Worcester non-League man objects to the Washington Club's resolution disparaging non-League riders.
- Backs Adams D. Claflin of Newton over Mr. Parsons for L.A.W. chief consul and names Henry E. Ducker, Henry W. Williams, and J. Fred Adams as possible candidates; reports Horace S. Tibbs of Montreal as the new C.T.C. chief consul for Canada and A. J. Burrows's road-building pamphlet, plus L.A.W. membership at 3,598, led by New York (718) and Massachusetts (582).
- Club news roundup covering officer elections at the newly formed Rutgers College Bicycle Club, the Cortlandt Wheelmen of Peekskill, the Albany Club, and the Cambridge Bicycle Club (which admitted Col. T. W. Higginson), plus the Passaic County Wheelmen, the Frankford and Columbia clubs, Brockton's City Bicycle Club, and the Cleveland Bicycle Club's plans for an August state meet.
- Official C.T.C. notices from U.S. chief consul Frank W. Weston naming Poughkeepsie, N.Y. as the site of the coming annual meeting and listing new membership applications from E. F. Tolman of Worcester, J. H. Collister of Cleveland, and F. H. Escott of Grand Rapids.
- Answers reader queries, including a cost estimate of $1,000 to $1,400 for a cinder or gravel bicycle track put to correspondent F. P. Scharck, and a brief note to a Brooklyn correspondent that "the matter has been adjusted."