The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 3, No 3
Articles in this issue
- An editorial arguing that the over-cautious, timid rider comes to grief oftenest, and urging the first-season wheelman to trust his machine and be "less studiously careful and more confidently careless."
- A column of editorial paragraphs: Chas. Richard Dodge taking the editorship of Outing, Thos. W. Eck's disputed "Champion of Canada" claim, the proposed C.W.A. Association uniform for 1886, the Montreal Bicycle Club's prior claim to the first Chinese lantern parade, and members' duty to The Wheelman.
- Karl Kron's forthcoming-book account of his autumn wheeling tour through Ontario, riding from Windsor to Prescott along the lake shores and praising "Talbot Street" over any 500-mile route in the United States.
- A table reprinted from the Mail of the best Canadian cycling records, with marks by Low, Williams, Clarke, Foster and Davies, plus tricycle and Safety records by A. T. Lane.
- Reprinted from the Star Advocate, four members of the Star Bicycle Club of Cleveland (Chubb, McTigue, Weitz and another) describe their tour from Windsor through St. Thomas and London, hosted by C.W.A. president Brierley and members of the Ariel Touring Club.
- The Canadian Wheelmen's Association's officers, district chief consuls and representatives, committees and local consuls, headed by President Jas. S. Brierley of St. Thomas.
- Reprinted from the Bicycling World, a survey of 1885 tricycle types arguing the small-wheeled handle-bar steerer has come to stay and forecasting the 1886 machine will have small drivers, a large steerer and automatic steering.
- From the London Standard, an argument that cyclists touring France, Switzerland and Italy will need a new "Cyclists' Bradshaw" listing routes, inns and prices from London to the principal cities of Europe.
- Reprinted from the Clipper, a plea for a "let-up" in record-breaking, holding that the against-time feats of amateur Rowe and professional Woodside fall short in merit of slower marks made in races between men.
- A Brantford correspondent congratulates The Canadian Wheelman on its new form, reports winter drill at Manager Secord's Roller Rink and W. C. Blust's exhibition, and argues Brantford rather than Belleville should host the 1886 C.W.A. meet.
- A member of "The Echoes" of Berlin and Waterloo, writing from Nebraska City, gives the history of the club (formerly the "Lansdowne B.C.") and its 1885 season of runs, tours and entertainments.
- "Pete" reports the first snow turning Toronto and Wanderers wheelmen into snowshoers, the all-weather riding of Robt. Tyson of Osgoode Hall, and Hurst leaving on a professional fancy-riding tour.
- Montreal correspondents insist the club is neither dead nor sleeping, restate the club's 1884 priority in the Chinese lantern parade, and report S. McCaw's marriage gift and a large club picture taken at Notman & Son's for the Colonial Exhibition.
- An Ottawa correspondent reflects on the season's road-riding without a track, welcomes the arrival of "Safeties," and describes the club's new rooms in the Scottish Ontario Chambers and winter drill in the Drill Hall and Roller Rink.
- A St. John correspondent reports the club doubling to over forty members under captain W. A. Maclachlan, H. C. Page's Thanksgiving road-race win, and the proposed "Blue-nose" tour led by F. A. Elwell from Grand Falls to St. John.
- Reprinted from the Pall Mall Gazette, a reflection on Thomas Stevens's bicycle ride across Europe and Asia Minor to Persia, musing on the cycle's power to revolutionize the world.
- A comic verse by "T. W. E." (reprinted from The C.T.C. Gazette) in which a cyclist woos and weds his sweetheart, punning throughout on bicycle makes such as Safety, Star, Royal Mail, Challenge, Victor, Columbia, Extraordinary, Rudge and Ideal.
- A column of brief cycling news items: a talked-of 24-hour race, Rowe's prizes and predicted 2.30 mile, English championship results for Howell and Wood, the negotiated sale of Outing to Poultney Bigelow, and Grant Bell's sleepwalking accident at Minneapolis.
- Reprinted from the Mirror of American Sports, an argument that salaried record-making "makers' amateurs" should not be classed as amateurs as the L.A.W. faces the amateur-professional distinction.
- A Bicycling World correspondent compares the spiral and cradle tricycle springs after riding on both, finding the cradle steadier, more adjustable and less liable to breakage.
- An account of the 24-hour road record being broken twice in one day, by W. H. Huntley of Newton, Mass. (257 1-16 miles) and then by L. D. Munger of Detroit (259 27-32 miles), riding with his leg in bandages.