The Cycle Age and Trade Review, Vol 23, No 88
Articles in this issue
- Report from Minneapolis where the cycle dealers' association has decided that racing sponsorship costs more than it returns in sales and business will not support future race events.
- Report from Tacoma, Washington where dealers sold a record 2,350 bicycles in the season, the busiest in the city's history.
- Report from Middletown, Connecticut showing that reduced bicycle prices have converted former renters into buyers, boosting overall sales.
- Description of a circus-style advertising stunt in Washington involving Australian cyclist A. M. Schreyer riding a home trainer mounted on top of a two-hundred-foot chimney.
- Report from an eastern dealer on increasing demand for tandem bicycles, though rental prices have fallen significantly from two years earlier.
- Report from Syracuse, New York where the bicycle trade has been much better than last year, with employment up about 20 percent and dealers expecting the year to close as the second-best season on record.
- Statistical report showing German bicycle exports reached 327 tons in January-February 1899 (versus 176 tons a year earlier), sent chiefly to Austria, Sweden, and Denmark, while imports from Britain and the United States fell sharply.
- Coverage of the informal meetings of American Bicycle Company principals in Chicago, with makers gathering at the Fisher Building offices, guarding their secrets carefully, discussing possible acquisition of more plants, concerns about supplies, and no election of officers likely for several weeks.
- Racing results and club news from cycling associations across North America, including the action of the U.V.F. of France strengthening hopes for N.C.A. recognition at Montreal, Harry Elkes setting the fastest mile on a track at one minute thirty-one seconds in Washington, and results from evening races.