The Cycle, Vol 2, No 8
Articles in this issue
- p. 3
The Cycle reports that the N.C.U. council voted almost entirely to retain the amateur law, with only twelve votes against out of one hundred — six of those twelve being Wheeling staff members — while polo and the promateur class, which were both predicted to kill the law, have come and gone.
- p. 3
The Cycle notes that touring wheelmen in Eastern Massachusetts are increasingly inconvenienced because hotels in the best cycling regions have been forced to close when it no longer pays to operate without a bar licence, even though cyclists themselves are not typically bar patrons.
- p. 3
Boston dealers have agreed in writing not to accept road records against time unless pacers rode the entire distance with checked times, while English dealers form a trade association after reporting five out of six depots unable to show any profit on the year's trading.
- p. 2
Gormully and Jeffery continue advertising Whittaker's October records, listing times for 50, 100, 150, 200, and 300 miles on a 50-mile surveyed road under A.C.U. rules, arguing these stock-machine results mean far more than track records on lightweight racing wheels.
- p. 1
The Coventry Machinists Co. lead this issue with the Marlboro Tandem's 24-hour record by a mixed pair, beating all previous records by over 30 miles as the season moves toward its close.