The Cycle, Vol 2, No 2
Articles in this issue
- p. 3
The Cycle reports that the promateur class has been unanimously judged a failure and that leading A.C.U. officers themselves now acknowledge the experiment did not work, while warning that the League may be forced into a counter-movement if promateurs continue to avoid League-rules meetings.
- p. 3
The multiplication of local cycling tracks around America has ended the era when wheelmen travelled hundreds of miles to Springfield, with Boston clubs going to Lynn and New York's Citizens' Club going to Roseville, meaning Springfield must now rely on local support.
- p. 3
The Sterling Cycle Company of 194 Washington Street, Boston, introduces the Elliott tricycle with second-growth hickory wooden wheels that are lighter and tougher than steel spider wheels, and argues that just as the Rover safety bicycle overturned assumptions about ordinary bicycle design, the Elliott may challenge assumptions about tricycle requirements.
- p. 3
The Cycle observes that the past year has seen Rover-type safety bicycles doing good work beside ordinary machines, correcting the vibration from small trailing wheels, and argues that while the safety will not supplant the ordinary it will find its own field of usefulness.
- p. 2
Gormully and Jeffery feature Whittaker's double record-breaking feat — 50 miles in 2h 55m 46.5s and 100 miles in 6h 43m 59s — prominently in their advertising, quoting Whittaker's own statement that he attributes the records to the American Champion's bearings.