The Canadian Wheelman, Vol 3, No 5
Articles in this issue
- Editorial welcoming the C.W.A. Board's decision to hold the 1886 annual meet in Montreal, praising the Montreal Bicycle Club's loyalty and urging Ontario wheelmen to attend in force.
- Reminds clubs holding their annual meetings to keep up C.W.A. membership, aiming for 1,000 paid-up members by July 1st at one dollar per annum.
- Endorses the Board's recommendation of a C.W.A. uniform modelled on the L.A.W. suit but in dark gray instead of brown.
- Defends the decision to issue a new C.W.A. guide-book at once and appeals to every Canadian cyclist to send the Secretary road descriptions for their neighbourhood.
- Paragraphs of comment, including W. G. Ross's return to Montreal, the cost of the guide-book and The Wheelman, and a quoted L.A.W. Bulletin item on forming a League division in Canada.
- Practical advice (reprinted from Cyclist and Athlete) on oiling bearings, non-revolving pedal rubbers and the troubles of riding too large a machine.
- Satirical sketch (from The Wheel) mocking makers who advertise records ridden "without a change of machine," plus notes on the Pope v. Overman patent suit and E. H. Foote's anti-header attachment.
- Trade items on Wm. Payne's new stock, Dr. G. F. Brooks's "League Waltz," Gormully & Jeffery's catalogue, R. E. Phillips's book "The Construction of Modern Cycles," and Chas. Robinson & Co.'s Rudge agency.
- Lists the Canadian Wheelmen's Association officers (President Jas. S. Brierley, Sec.-Treas. Hal. B. Donly), the five districts, chief consuls, representatives, committees and local consuls.
- Report of the Board's February 19th meeting at the Walker House, Toronto, which revised the amateur rule, awarded the meet to Montreal, recommended an Association uniform and resolved to publish the guide-book.
- Correspondence from A. T. Webster denying that the spring English touring party organized by Ryrie, Chandler and himself is exclusively a Toronto Bicycle Club affair and inviting all Canadian cyclists to join.
- Club notes signed "Pete" reporting the Toronto Bicycle Club's annual election (President A. F. Webster, etc.) and the planned England, France and continental wheeling tour of Webster, Harry Ryrie and Chandler.
- Notes from "A Newmarket Rover" on the new Newmarket club joining the C.W.A. and a detailed cycling route from Toronto up Yonge Street through Aurora, Sharon and on to Roach's Point on Lake Simcoe.
- Correspondence signed "Bicycle" on the Woodstock club's new rooms, support for the guide-book and amateur definition, the Montreal meet, and prospects for the local May 24th race meeting.
- Essay by President Bates arguing that a bicycle racer can only overtake the trotting horse's coming two-minute mile through a radical, geared improvement in machine propulsion, not better riders.
- Twelve rules for safe riding compiled by President Henry W. Williams of the Massachusetts Bicycle Club, covering machine size, saddle position, hill descents and emergency handling.
- Verses headed "Cola E. Stone's last poem," addressed in praise of the rider's faithful wheel.
- Biographical sketch of Montreal-born professional fancy rider George H. Hill, who joined Chas. Robinson & Co. and has begun an Ontario tour, with notes on his balancing feats at the Toronto Princess Roller Rink.
- Anecdote (from the American Wheelman) of how Whittaker, on a borrowed Rudge Safety, beat Van Sicklen by sixty yards in the Chicago Safety race after Van urged him not to rush for the "beautiful" second prize.
- Column of cycling news: Fred Jenkins's resignation from the Wheel, the death of English racer H. L. Cortis in Australia, Hurst beating G. H. Hill at the Princess Roller Rink, L.A.W. state membership figures and Outing's move to New York under Poultney Bigelow.
- A Bulletin correspondent's table relating a 56-inch wheel's pedal revolutions per minute to speed in miles per hour for easy on-road calculation.
- Description (from the L.A.W. Bulletin) of a new safety bicycle combining Crank and Star designs, shown at the Philadelphia "Novelties" Exhibition, with ball bearings, a felt-packed clutch and cushion-mounted front wheel.