The Cycle, Vol 2, No 11

Articles in this issue

• The Bulletin Cries Down the Cycling Press — The League Should Foster It Instead

  The Cycle argues that one of the League's purposes is to promote wheeling, and the cycling press is the most powerful instrument for doing that, so the Bulletin's policy of boasting its own large gratuitous circulation while undermining other cycling papers is counterproductive and should be reversed.

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• The Corey Case — A.C.U. Decides Against its Own Rule on Pace from Professionals

  The Cycle challenges the A.C.U. official Mr. Dean's claim that no rule was broken when Corey accepted pace from a professional, quoting A.C.U. Article V Sec. 8(c) verbatim — which clearly makes accepting pace from a professional a disqualifying offence — and accusing Dean of very queer ideas regarding the meaning of words.

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• From a Feminine Point of View — English Lady Cyclists Log Over 2,000 Miles in 1886

  The paper's female columnist quotes 'Rose Meadows' in Wheeling, sharing the cycling diary of Marion Arkwright who rode 100 miles in March, 210 in April, 600 in May-June, rested while travelling Switzerland in summer, then rode 1,000 miles in September-October, demonstrating that English women are cycling with the same commitment as men.

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• American Champion — Whittaker's Records on a Standard Roadster

  Gormully and Jeffery continue their winter advertising campaign highlighting Whittaker's 20-mile, 50-mile, and 100-mile records and the argument that road record performance on a stock machine is the truest test of cycle quality.

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• Marlboro Tandem — 24-Hour Record by Lady and Gentleman

  The Coventry Machinists Co. keep the Marlboro Tandem's 250-mile 140-yard 24-hour record before readers in the December issues as the cycling year draws to a close.

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