The Cycle, Vol 1, No 9
Articles in this issue
- p. 5
Boston puts on its holiday garb for the League of American Wheelmen's annual meeting, with the Cycle urging every wheelman not to fail to attend the business meeting and cast his vote before indulging in the social pleasures of the event.
- p. 5
The editorial argues that readers of cycling papers gain substantial advantages — knowing new machines, upcoming events, riding hints, and machine care tips — for roughly the price of a theatre ticket or a first-class dinner.
- p. 17
A direct subscription appeal reminds readers that a year's subscription costs less than any club fee or restaurant dinner, arguing the cycling press delivers more practical value per dollar than almost any other purchase a wheelman makes.
- p. 5
The issue covers the League's Boston meeting, previewing the decisions expected on the promateur question and reporting that the Racing Board chairman will substantiate every statement he has made when he faces the general membership.
- p. 3
Wm. Read and Sons urge wheelmen not to purchase any mount before examining a Royal Mail, including newly arrived two-track tricycles and the convertible tandem in which the lady sits behind the gentleman.
- p. 4
Gormully and Jeffery assert Thomas B. Jeffery made the first hollow-forked ball-bearing bicycle in America in 1878, with the American Cycles today combining his long experience and many inventions, and the prettiest catalogue in the trade available free.
- p. 2
H. B. Smith Machine Co. promote the Star as the safest bicycle made, with best road records, world safety records from 1 to 20 miles, first American machine to exceed 20 miles in the hour, and all hill-climbing contests won since 1881.