The Cycle, Vol 2, No 5
Articles in this issue
- p. 1
The Coventry Machinists Co. advertise the Marlboro Tandem's extraordinary performance of 250 miles 140 yards in 24 hours ridden by a lady and gentleman, beating all previous tandem records by over 30 miles, and noting the machine always carries its load without breaking down.
- p. 3
The Cycle attacks the Wheelman's Gazette for claiming the promateur is a grand success 'viewed from almost every light,' while everyone else acknowledges promateur races were uninteresting because there were so few promateurs, and now Rowe and Hendee have declared themselves professionals.
- p. 3
The Cycle argues that road records made on machines taken from regular stock mean a great deal because they prove the bicycle can withstand hard riding for three hundred miles, and notes the Columbia team's sweep of competition was enabled by manufacturers' riders who could ride at will.
- p. 3
The Cycle praises the L.A.W. Bulletin's campaign for better roads, quoting the editor's call on Boston-area cyclists who enjoy sand-papered roads to contribute articles explaining how those roads were built and maintained, while noting that good roads in Massachusetts depend more on nature than on civic enterprise.
- p. 2
Gormully and Jeffery repeat the American Champion's road record credentials with Whittaker's 50 and 100-mile records from Crawfordsville, Indiana, and note that a road bicycle constructed solely for road riding, not a racing machine, is the appropriate test of a maker's quality.