Vol 20, No 18
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The Cycle Age and Trade Review 20, no. 18 (1898). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/the-cycle-age-and-trade-review/vol20-18/
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Articles in this issue
- Chicago's general opening day for the 1898 bicycle season proceeds despite heavy rain, with dealers reporting satisfied customers seeking medium-priced $35-$50 machines and a growing trend toward luxury grades bought on the installment plan.
- Germany is rapidly outpacing American bicycle exports to South America by leveraging established banking relationships, credit terms, and direct commercial presence that American cash-trade methods cannot match.
- Report on the division of the Morgan & Wright tire and rubber company's assets and operations.
- League of American Wheelmen ventures into commercial territory through proposed purchasing schemes for members.
- Survey of motorized bicycle activity in New England, covering demonstrations and early commercial interest.
- Reports of strong bicycle demand among rural southern farmers, with dealers in smaller towns doing unexpectedly good business.
- Cut-price dealers strip standard tires, saddles and pedals from bicycles and sell them at cut rates, as with the $5.00 Morgan & Wright tire offered at about $2.65, replacing them with cheap fittings.
- Condemns the L. A. W. officers' scheme, run by Wallace Sherwood, to turn the League into a cut-price purchasing agency for cycle goods, and reports that the bottom of cheap-bicycle prices has been reached.
- Analysis of credit conditions in the bicycle trade and how dealers should structure installment terms to protect themselves.
- Compares the motocycle in France, where over sixty builders are full of orders, with America, and weighs the merits of gasoline, electric and steam power.
- Two Cycle Age men visit New York department stores such as Wanamaker's and find standard makes like Humber and Monarch treated unfairly in favour of advertised bargain wheels.
- Criticism of dealers' and repairmen's newspaper advertisements, with illustrated examples of good and poor copy and advice on catch-phrases and the life of an announcement.
- Describes English fork-crown practice, chiefly the Humber and double-plate crowns, with attempts to strengthen drop frames.
- Selected recent inventions, beginning with a cellular puncture-proof tire, with figures and inventors' names.
- Trade notices of new goods, opening with the Hunt Mfg. Co.'s anatomical Sovereign saddle of Westboro, Mass.
- Page of cartoons under The Pastime and Sport on Chicago wheelmen in politics, California amateurs and pros racing together, the Jenkins and Potter quarrel, Gardiner, Indianapolis's new track and Hally beaten by Fisher, plus a piece on the dangers of cyclometers.
- Chairman Mott of the Racing Board explains why the 1898 racing rules were made, including the entry-blank and wheel and tire advertising provisions.
- Report on the opening of a new bicycle racing track in Philadelphia and its facilities.
- New Orleans racing news, including Joe Sierer's 28,000-mile ride around the United States and the A.A.U. national meet on 14 May.
- New York racing news, with Eddie Bald signed to ride the Spalding wheel and Christy saddle, and Gardiner the reigning star at Belleair.
- Racing notes, chiefly the $20,000 company building a track at Fairview Park, Indianapolis, for the L. A. W. championships and the Millersville cycle path.