The Cycle, Vol 1, No 22
Articles in this issue
- Rhode Island L.A.W. chief consul Chase issues a public card warning that wheelmen who dined at Coles Hotel in Warren behaved so badly that the landlord complained, reminding members that conduct unbecoming a gentleman is grounds for expulsion.
- The Cycle rebukes G. Lacy Hillier for refusing to credit American bicycle records while his own fifty-three and fifty-four-mile records remain disputed, and for having previously cast doubt on tricycle records of Lowndes that he later used to his own advantage.
- Members of the Pennsylvania Bicycle Club answered all road queries on their Philadelphia-to-Lake-George tour by distributing a printed card bearing the motto 'A fool can ask more questions than a wise man can answer'; The Cycle finds the device smart but not quite gentlemanly.
- The Cycle argues that the Connecticut Club's switch to A.C.U. rules over L.A.W. rules is simply a choice of championship affiliation, since the two rule-sets are virtually identical.
- The Springfield Bicycle Club's official programme for its Fifth Annual Tournament at Hampden Park, 14–16 September 1886, listing every event across four days — world championship heats, A.C.U. championships, professional, promateur, amateur, novice, handicap, and tandem races — with all first, second, and third prizes.
- A serialised fiction piece by Colin Gray: lawyer Herbert Nickerson, encountered by the Chelsea Club on a Sunday run to Nahant, begins recounting how his bicycle saved his life, opening with the story of a ruinously importunate client whose young female messenger briefly captivates him.
- Official prize-list for the Connecticut Bicycle Club's Third Annual International Tournament at Charter Oak Park, Hartford, 8–9 September 1886, covering amateur, promateur, and professional bicycle and tricycle events with prizes including diamond studs, gold watches, shot guns, and cash purses up to $175.
- Official prize-list for the Lynn Cycle Club Track Association's inaugural Fall Tournament at Glenmere Park, Lynn, 23–25 September 1886, offering $5,000 in prizes across amateur, promateur, and professional bicycle and tricycle events under A.C.U. rules.
- Reports that the Springfield tournament will use electric timing — a wire stretched across the finish line closes a circuit as each wheel crosses, with a parallel quarter-mile wire and electric bells at handicap marks so riders receive their starting signal before hearing the pistol.
- Harry Corey (Massachusetts Club) and W. H. Huntley (Nonantum Club) rode a Rudge Humber tandem tricycle 202½ miles in twenty-four hours from Newtonville, setting a road tandem record; cold overnight conditions stiffened Corey, and both men plan a renewed attempt aiming for close to 250 miles.
- A correspondent signing 'Bi.' reports that New Orleans cyclists accepted the lamp-and-bell ordinance without serious trouble and found the requirements a minor inconvenience at most, counselling wheelmen elsewhere to submit to similar laws rather than risk a court test.
- Robert Todd, Honorary Secretary of the N.C.U., writes from London confirming that English amateur riders cannot compete against the A.C.U.'s promateur class, and that he has published Abbot Bassett's letter to make the American position clear to English riders.
- Reports recent track performances at Coventry and Paignton: Englehart set new safety-bicycle records on a Kangaroo (three miles in 8.27, world safety record); Buckingham broke several best-English tricycle marks; and Fenlon broke English bicycle records from eleven to twenty-five miles at Paignton, while G. P. Mills raised the English twenty-four-hour bicycle record to 273 miles.
- Race results from Newcastle, Pa., Williamsport, Pa., and Weedsport, N.Y., covering novice, open, class, handicap, state championship, and team events, with winning times and names of first and second finishers.
- Calendar of forthcoming cycling race meetings and tours from late August through October 1886, including the Springfield Fifth Annual Tournament (14–17 September), Lynn Fall Tournament (23–25 September), the L.A.W. grand tour from Niagara Falls, and the St. Louis illuminated wheelmen's parade (1 October).