The Cycle, Vol 2, No 4
Articles in this issue
- A first-person account by "Daisie" of the 1886 L.A.W. ladies' tour to the North Shore, describing the two-day ride from Copley Square to Magnolia (37½ miles), the evening dancing at Willow Cottage, and the spirited assistance of "Our Gideon" throughout the tour.
- A romantic fiction by J. Parke Street in which a Harvard bicyclist, faint after a long morning ride, crashes near a farmhouse and is tended by Miss Helen Moses, leading to archery afternoons on the knoll and a dramatic nocturnal race to the railway station to catch her departing train.
- A column of brief cycling news items covering the ladies' North Shore run, the Pope Cup's new home in Chicago with Van Sicklen, Jack Prince joining Gormully & Jeffery, Rowe and Hendee's retirement from the track, the Chelsea Cycle Club's road race, and other short notes from the racing world.
- A humorous poem signed F. F. S. (reprinted from the News) addressing the mysterious cycling handicapper — praising his brainwork in setting fair marks while satirising the riders who complain when fairly beaten.
- A practical maintenance note (reprinted from the C.T.C. Gazette) explaining the correct use of paraffin for cleaning clogged bearings and removing thickened oil, cautioning that it must be thoroughly flushed out afterwards with lubricating oil to prevent rust.
- Reports G. P. Mills of the Anfield Bicycle Club setting a new 24-hour world road record of 294½ miles on the North Road on his 'Ivel' safety bicycle, breaking the previous American record of 281 miles held by Hollingsworth.
- Racing results from Lynn (19 Oct.), Boston (16 Oct.), Wakefield, Attleboro, Indianapolis (15–16 Oct.), Springfield (13–14 Oct.), Lynn (16 Oct.), St. Hyacinth Canada, Jackson Miss., and Crawfordsville Ind., including Frazier's new Safety mile record of 2.38½ and Rowe's three-mile time of 7.48½.