The Cycle, Vol 2, No 4
Articles in this issue
- p. 3
The Cycle argues that after one season the A.C.U. has adopted the League's rules almost entirely and departed from them only to make mistakes, while its road-racing rules have been ignored in the guise of 'private trials' and its path-racing rules flouted by record-breakers at Springfield who certify records on their own authority.
- p. 3
The Cycle reports that manager Atkins takes exceptional care in timing his Springfield trials — using three watches valued at $1,075 total, one of which was won by Rowe in the world championship — and notes the Springfield Union's observation that neither the L.A.W. nor the A.C.U. will formally accept time-trial records.
- p. 2
Gormully and Jeffery continue advertising with Whittaker's double road record, now citing the machine as a 51-inch American Champion constructed solely for road riding, and emphasising Whittaker's own explanation that the bearings are responsible for the times.
- p. 1
The Coventry Machinists Co. advertise the Marlboro Club with its automatic steerer as the most successful tricycle of the 1886 season, available at their shop at 239 Columbus Avenue, Boston.
- p. 3
The Cycle notes an inconsistency in cycling advertising: when a maker's rider wins a race the credit goes to the machine, but when Pope Manufacturing's Columbia team defeats other brands' riders, those manufacturers do not publicly admit their machines are inferior.