The Bicycling World, Vol 9, No 1
Articles in this issue
- News item about the Devon Inn fourteen miles from Philadelphia on the Lancaster pike, whose proprietors have sent wheelmen an invitation letter extolling the recently rebuilt stone premises in Queen Anne style as a convenient stopping point for road rides out of the city.
- Review of the Royal Mail bicycle, a well-known English first-class machine now offered by William Read & Sons, with a description of its principal features and a note on the firm's arrival in the American cycle trade.
- Short items reporting that Thos. B. Jeffery has joined R. P. Gormully in a new Chicago firm at 222-224 North Franklin Street, that the Ideal bicycle's manufacturers cannot keep up with orders, and that pioneer American cyclist Richard Garvey of St. Louis has sold his brokerage to deal in wheels exclusively.
- Editorial noting that one-sided bulletins from the rival Wheel paper are rapidly becoming a laughing-stock in the cycling world, illustrating the point with a passage declaring that applicants can no longer receive their tickets in time to vote, information any boy old enough to read the constitution would already know.
- Technical description of the Centrecycle, a five-wheeled machine whose key feature is the rider's ability to raise or lower any individual wheel at will; when ridden skilfully it rarely has more than one wheel on the ground, leaning into corners like a bicycle rather than remaining rigidly upright like a tricycle.
- Humorous first-person account of losing control of a bicycle on a steep downhill pitch toward a river, with the brake accelerating rather than checking the machine, ending when the rider was thrown over the handlebars by a sewer crossing and slid down the levee into the water.
- Notes praising unattached riders for respecting the Harvard Bicycle Club's cinder track, contrasting them with a club caught practising without permission at five in the morning, and reporting that the Manhattan Club's quarter-mile track for the intercollegiate championships has corners too tight for fast time.
- Schedule of upcoming cycling events from June to August, including the third day of the Philadelphia meet on June 19, the Niagara to Boston tour departing July 13 with arrangements for Chicago and Detroit members, and the annual Ohio division L.A.W. meet in Cleveland on August 18-19.