The Cycle, Vol 2, No 12
Articles in this issue
- A Christmas fiction serial by Colin Gray follows Will, a cyclist, who rides fifty miles to Clover Hill for the holiday season and finds himself entangled in romantic rivalry with the stiff Mr. Wilsonby over Henrietta, amid sleigh rides, a fancy-dress ball, and a theatrical plot featuring bicycles and tricycles.
- The Cycle presents a cut of the Elliott tricycle and notes the makers have secured twenty-year-seasoned hickory and ten-year-old hubs for their wheels, with some thousand machines now in manufacture for the spring trade.
- Writing from a sickbed, the columnist "Daisie" reflects on missing her club ball, reports on the successful ladies' nights at the Massachusetts Club, and urges that cycling missionaries should draw winter dancers out onto the wheel in summer.
- Correspondent W. J. Morgan praises Henry E. Ducker's tournament management at Springfield and argues for Sanford Lawton as a worthy successor, then reports on W. M. Woodside's planned English racing campaign and his preparation schedule through Ireland and Wales.
- A column of brief news items covers Pierre Lallement now employed by the Sterling Cycle Co., J. K. Starley's new ball-bearing assigned to Pope Mfg. Co., the amateur question in the Bulletin, patent grants of 7 December, and various club and trade notes.
- Racing results include Valentine's wins at the Seventh Regiment games in New York, a twelve-hour rink race in Faribault won by Fred Straub, and John S. Prince winning the six-day United States championship race at Omaha with 767 miles.
- Club notes report on the Chelsea Cycle Club's first social attended by officers from across Massachusetts clubs, the Binghamton Club's fourth annual ball, and the annual meeting of the Manchester Bicycle Club with a full list of newly elected officers.