The Cycle, Vol 2, No 17
Articles in this issue
- p. 3
In the final issue, Abbot Bassett announces The Cycle is closing because he has been elected Secretary-Editor of the League of American Wheelmen and all his time must now go to those duties; he arranges to transfer the subscription list to another paper and promises to return all recent payments or extend subscriptions as readers prefer.
- p. 3
The Cycle reports the New York Board of Officers meeting was lengthy with much argument, particularly over rival factions contending for the Secretary-Editor's office, but that important precedents were established and the results were broadly good.
- p. 4
Daisie publishes a final lady cyclists' mileage roundup including a Traveller-tandem rider who was first to reach Magnolia on the North Shore tour, and various correspondents from Boston, Chicago, and Buffalo who rode between 200 and 613 miles in 1886, closing what has been The Cycle's beloved regular women's column.
- p. 2
Gormully and Jeffery close the final issue with the Prince Omaha record advertisement and an invitation to send machines in now for winter overhauls at their completed new factory before the spring rush.
- p. 1
The Coventry Machinists Co.'s Marlboro Tandem record advertisement appears in the last issue of The Cycle, ending its run alongside a paper that covered the full span of the 1886 American cycling season.