The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 2, No 14
Articles in this issue
- The Wheelman returns to monthly publication, sketches the proposed 1886 Big Four Tour through northern Canada and Nova Scotia, corrects faulty press accounts of the Big Four Century Road Race, and notes the retirement of W. G. Ross of Montreal, ex-champion of Canada, from the cinder path.
- Four members of the Star Wheel Club of Cleveland (Henry E. Chubb, John J. McTigue, Walter Collins and Joseph Weitz) complete a 677-mile tour from Detroit through Ontario via London, Goderich, Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara and back through Buffalo and Erie to Cleveland.
- The Ottawa Bicycle Club holds a complimentary supper at the Queen Restaurant for members Captain T. B. Evans and Staff-Sergeant Maynard Rogers on their return from service against the North-West rebellion.
- Concluding installment of Harry M. Lee's Outing account of a prairie bicycle tour, riding through Pilot Mound, Milford and Brandon and visiting an English settler named Williams in the Rock Lake district.
- Reports the officers elected for 1885 at the Kingston Bicycle Club's annual meeting, including president D. F. Armstrong, secretary-treasurer T. T. Renton and captain George Smith.
- The Montreal Bicycle Club's handicap road race to Valois on August 1st is won by Geo. Darling, with G. S. Low fastest from scratch; F. D. Scott ran over a dog at Lachine and J. R. Scales took a header at the Dominion bridge.
- Official Canadian Wheelmen's Association notes list new membership applications from clubs including the Ramblers' Wheel Club of Belleville and the Ottawa Club, plus W. A. Karn's letter naming District No. 1 consuls and C.W.A. headquarters hotels.
- Cycling news items report L. D. Munger of Detroit riding 211 miles in 24 hours at Boston, Thomas Stevens reaching Constantinople on his round-the-world ride, and English riders Furnival, Howell and others entered for the Springfield tournament.
- A humorous poem, reprinted from Bicycle South, contrasting a cane-sucking dude with a wife who now rides her bike.
- A full account of the Big Four Tour under Manager Ayers, from the start at Buffalo through Cobourg and Canada's hundred-mile stretch to Round Island and down the Hudson valley to New York City, with the road-racers led by Cola Stone.
- Statistics and anecdotes from the Big Four Tour furnished by Secretary Fuller: youngest rider Harry Higinbotham of Chicago, the Expert Columbia the most-used machine, and Fred. Jenkins of the Wheel dislocating his knee in the only serious accident.
- H. R. Goodwin of the North Manchester Bicycle Club rides Land's End to John o' Groats and back, then on to London, covering about 2,050 miles in nineteen days on a 40-inch Facile safety bicycle.
- The Seaforth Bicycle Club's second annual tournament on its new asphalt track sees the Woodstock Club win the Robinson & Co. banner, with Clarke, Foster and others taking the races and Toronto's T. Fane falling twice.