The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 3, No 4
Articles in this issue
- Explains why the C.W.A. Board of Officers is being convened early: the Secretary could not raise enough advertising to fund the planned guide-book, and constitutional questions and the choice of the 1886 meet city (Stratford, Brantford, Belleville, Ottawa or Montreal) must be settled.
- An editorial judging the 1886 outlook for Canadian cycling hopeful, noting that 1885 brought steady growth among riders who took to the wheel for health and locomotion rather than novelty.
- Urges every Canadian wheelman to join a club and the Canadian Wheelmen's Association, citing the L.A.W. Hand-book's list of benefits and hoping for 1000 C.W.A. members in 1886.
- The editor rebuts a January 11 Toronto Mail sporting column that defended the flying start by imagining riders and machines strewn over the course at standing-start races, and argues the question of starting method must be weighed on its merits.
- A column of short editorial paragraphs on the Neilson-Eck championship-of-Canada dispute, Burley B. Ayers's planned Big Four European tour, the Woodstock A.A.A.'s May 24 tournament with the first professional bicycle race in Canada, and Harry Etherington's retirement from the editorship of Wheeling.
- Reports President Beckwith's plan to put L.A.W. touring under a tourmaster (Burley B. Ayers of Chicago) and a chairman of the bureau of information (H. S. Wood of Philadelphia), to be submitted to the Board of Officers in New York.
- Milton Bradley, in Good Housekeeping, argues the bicycle is the most selfish of conveyances, leaving wives and children behind, and will only become a family vehicle when Edison invents a motor for the sociable tricycle.
- A St. Louis Post-Dispatch item recounts a West End lady whose insomnia and head pains were cured after a friend left a tricycle in her backyard and she began riding the Seventeenth Street hill.
- The official C.W.A. notice from President Jas. S. Brierley and Secretary Hal. B. Donly calling the Regular Annual Spring Meeting of the Board of Officers at the Walker House, Toronto, on Friday, February 19th, followed by the full roster of officers, district representatives and local consuls.
- A Book of Health analysis calculating that riding a mile on a bicycle costs about one-sixth the muscular effort of walking it, so an 80-mile ride can be undertaken without danger of overdoing the daily 300 foot-tons of exertion.
- A Woodstock correspondent signed 'Bicycle' reports the Athletic Association's move to larger quarters with billiard and bowling rooms and previews its most attractive May 24 race meeting, drawing leading American amateurs and professionals.
- A Toronto correspondent welcomes the lengthening days, urges Canadian clubs to hold winter 'Smokery' and 'Cinderella' meetings like the English, and notes the Toronto Club's February meetings and Bennett's win over George H. Hill on a Rudge Safety at the Princess Rink.
- A Springfield News report on President Ducker's plan to take some fifty of America's greatest wheelmen on a tour through Britain, France, Germany and a descent of the Alps into Italy in the spring.
- Mr. W. P. Ure of the Scottish C.C. shares, via the C.T.C. Gazette, his method of mending spokes broken at the rim by hooking short headed pieces of spoke to the broken end with pliers.
- A comic poem from Bicycling World, signed E. D., in which a tandem-tricycle rider's attempt to steal a kiss from his lady passenger ends in a crash, proving that 'the gods protect their own.'
- The Cyclist sums up a long correspondence on the merits of bicycle, tricycle and safety, concluding that no single type suits every rider and that each machine is right in its proper place.
- A column of brief racing and trade notes covering Geo. Weber the 'Star Demon,' the relative memberships of the English C.T.C., L.A.W. and German Cyclist Union, the failure of the Otto Machine Company, the Rudge & Co. incorporation, and the settlement of the N.C.U.-A.A.A. quarrel in England.