The Cycle, Vol 1, No 20
Articles in this issue
- p. 3
The Cycle objects that holding the fall Board of Officers meeting in Buffalo on the same day as the New York Division meeting and the big tournament will distract attendees from League business, recalling that similarly inconvenient meeting locations in Philadelphia and Springfield at tournament times produced the least satisfactory results.
- p. 5
The Cycle extracts practical points for Massachusetts cyclists from B. W. Potter's new pamphlet 'The Road and the Roadside,' covering road-width principles, carriages passing on the right, the liability of drivers who endanger pedestrians, and a sleigh-bell law that the paper argues has clear implications for bicycle lighting rules.
- p. 4
The Cycle gives a detailed account, supplied by Mrs. Stickney through a family member, of how a tandem tricycle coasting downhill at dusk without a headlight caught a cobblestone gutter, throwing Mr. Stickney over his wife's head with fatal results while Mrs. Stickney was briefly trapped beneath the machine.
- p. 3
The Cycle warns amateur riders who plan to race against professionals on the road believing League's disclaimer of jurisdiction protects them, that the A.C.U. now governs road racing and will treat any rider so competing as a promateur or professional.
- p. 3
W. B. Everett and Co. advertise the Apollo for achieving 20 miles on the road in 1 hour 12 minutes 35 seconds, a world record, alongside the Singer's Straight Steerer tricycle described as the great hit of the season.
- p. 2
Gormully and Jeffery invite wheelmen to send for their 50-page July catalogue covering the American Champion, Challenge, Safety, Ideal Bicycle, and Ideal Tricycle, all described as high-grade and without superiors on American roads.