The Cycle, Vol 1, No 25
Articles in this issue
- A short story by Colin Gray in which two rival racing cyclists, Sterling and Digby, secretly bet $25,000 on which of them shall win the right to propose marriage to Madge Hamilton. Madge, once she learns of the scheme, exposes and humiliates both men by offering to settle the question with a card game.
- The editor's miscellaneous column covering the L.A.W. Buffalo meeting, the Hartford fall tournament (attendance, prize-winners, inter-club parade, notable incidents), Rowe's record attempt, makers' amateur disputes, and assorted racing gossip including the Pittsfield results and a San Francisco national championship dispatch.
- A poem by President Bates celebrating the cyclist's solitary rambles through summer and autumn landscapes, from riverbanks and pine forests to hilltops at sunset.
- A brief news item reporting that Mr. Ricalton, sent by Outing magazine on a three-wheeled journey from Archangel through Russia to Crimea, has not been heard from since leaving New York and is feared to have been arrested by Russian authorities, possibly because of his photographic apparatus.
- A short list of recent U.S. patents granted to cycling inventors, covering a velocipede, a tricycle brake, a cyclometer, a tricycle clutch, and two wheel-related devices.
- A column signed "Daisie" reflecting on September as the finest month for wheelwomen, describing autumn rides, club outings, a friend's midnight tricycle errand to fetch a doctor, and a near-collision on the road handled with gentlemanly grace.
- Race results from the Pittsfield (Berkshire County Wheelmen) and New York (Harlem Wheelmen) meetings, listing winners, times, and finishing positions across amateur, promateur, and professional events including team and handicap races.
- Tabulated summaries of recent British record performances: Furnivall's bicycle mile at Long Eaton (2.30), Gatehouse's tricycle records at Long Eaton and over twenty miles, Potter's fifty-mile Surrey championship, Engleheart's safety-bicycle times at Coventry, Sidney Lee's road tricycle fifty miles, and the North Road Club's mixed 100-mile road race.
- A calendar of forthcoming cycling meetings in September and early October 1886, listing race venues across the United States from Allegheny City and Lynn to Indianapolis, Roseville, and St. Louis.