The Cycle, Vol 1, No 24
Articles in this issue
- p. 3
The Cycle responds to a rival paper's continued attack on the Racing Board by citing its successive unanimous votes of confidence — unanimous at the general meeting, eight to one in the mail vote — and argues the Board's achievement of substituting honesty for subterfuge on the race path was genuinely valuable.
- p. 4
The Cycle's female columnist Daisie begins a comic cycling story in which Guy Atherton and John Jones discuss a social scheme while riding a tandem through Eastern Massachusetts, involving Atherton's ward Miriam who wants to win a husband through merit rather than beauty, name, or fortune.
- p. 2
Gormully and Jeffery reprint the trio of dealer testimonials — from Dayton, Indianapolis, and New Haven — for the American Safety bicycle, and guarantee it absolutely to be the easiest running bicycle in the world.
- p. 2
W. B. Everett and Co. repeat the Apollo's world road record of 20 miles in 1 hour 12 minutes 35 seconds, set 20 July 1886, and promote the Singer's Straight Steerer as the most practical tricycle of the season.
- p. 3
The Cycle quotes and gently mocks a rival paper's observation that 'it takes a club to kill a crank,' agreeing that cranks appear to thrive in every cycle club no matter how exclusive, and that no scheme is too crazy to find a champion there.
- p. 1
The Coventry Machinists Co. of 239 Columbus Avenue, Boston, advertise the new Marlboro Tandem as the latest, fastest, and best tandem on the market, with a detailed illustration of the machine's novel design.