The Cycle, Vol 1, No 11
Articles in this issue
- p. 5
Henry Ducker, president of the newly formed American Cyclists' Union, publishes a formal circular announcing the A.C.U.'s purpose to defend racing men's rights and promote true amateur racing, with the motto 'Jamais Arrière,' while the Cycle's editorial rebuttal argues the Union simply wants professionals to race as amateurs.
- p. 5
The Cycle details how League officials had to intervene at Yale Club and other meets where A.C.U. rules were used, because both amateurs and professionals were admitted to amateur events, making the new Union's claims of protecting amateurs a hollow pretence.
- p. 3
Wm. Read and Sons announce newly arrived Royal Mail tricycles with their new patent hatchet brake requiring no hand strain in coasting, plus the Safety Kangaroo still in great demand with headers impossible at 100 miles in 6 hours 39 minutes.
- p. 3
W. B. Everett and Co., sole U.S. agents for the Apollo, repeat John S. Prince's world records for 35 to 50 miles and 100 to 1,042 miles, all set at Minneapolis in 1885 on an Apollo semi-racer weighing 32.5 pounds.
- p. 5
The Cycle criticises the Massachusetts chief consul for organising a body antagonistic to the League while Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Jersey consuls are praised for producing road books freely distributed to members.
- p. 5
A reader recounts the alarming experience of a friend who set off on his Springfield tandem with his wife and, while coasting a hill after five miles, heard an ominous click that foretold a mechanical disaster.