The Cycle, Vol 2, No 5
Articles in this issue
- A woman cyclist known as "Daisie" recounts the second and third days of the ladies' North Shore tricycle run to Cape Ann, describing the party's circuit around the rocky Gloucester headlands and the hard roads that defeated several riders.
- A letter signed "Lord Dolphin" corrects the L.A.W. Bulletin's misreported time for Geo. D. Gideon's half-mile race at the University of Philadelphia, explaining that Gideon's actual mile time of 2.01½ set a track record despite a strong wind.
- Four survivors of the second annual Cape Ann tricycle tour — styling themselves "Mr. Veteran," "Mrs. Veteran," "Mr. Duke of Wellington," and "Mrs. Duke of Wellington" — correct a Globe article that implied the tour ended at the Cape, insisting the full four-day route to Newburyport was completed.
- A comic cycling tale by B. Hayward, reprinted from Wheel World, in which a boastful county tricycle champion is humbled when he rashly challenges a stranger who turns out to be the long-distance champion W. Peters — and is then swindled out of his tandem by a young mechanic who bolts with it.
- Reprinted from The Cyclist, Henry Sturmey predicts the bicycle and tricycle fashions of 1887: front-steering tricycles with large steering wheels will dominate, rear-driving safety bicycles will outsell front-drivers, and weights for full roadsters, light roadsters, and racers are expected to settle into defined ranges.
- The Cycle's regular column of short news items and comment, covering Rowe's new 2.29¾ mile record, Karl Kron's forthcoming book, the Marlboro tandem's history, Whittaker's 300-mile road record on the American Champion, club and trade notes, and various anecdotes from the cycling world.
- A table listing the League of American Wheelmen champions for 1886–7 across all bicycle distances from the half-mile to twenty miles and the one-mile tricycle, with winners' names, home clubs, race venues, and times compared to the previous year's champions.
- Full particulars of S. G. Whittaker's world-record 300-mile 24-hour road ride on an American Champion over the New Richmond and Potato Creek gravel roads in Montgomery County, Indiana, including lap-by-lap times and a full list of officials.
- The Cycle publishes the correct solution — in miles and yards only — to its speed-calculation puzzle, giving the rate of travel for mile times from 2 m. 30 s. to 2 m. 35 s., and credits competitors who worked the decimals accurately.
- Race results from Lynn (Morgan and Armaindo's 24-hour tandem record of 252 miles 140 yards; Eck's 25-mile tricycle run; Armaindo testimonial races), Roseville (Walcott and Johnson tandem tricycle American records), Springfield (Rowe's world-record mile in 2.29¾ and Crocker's tricycle record attempts), Chelsea road race, Camden club races, and the Minneapolis six-day entries.
- Officer elections for the Washington D.C. Cycle Club, Holyoke, Cleveland, and Thomaston clubs, and a notice of the Cambridge Club's fourth annual reception at Armory Hall.