The Cycle, Vol 2, No 9
Articles in this issue
- The editor reflects on Thanksgiving, winter riding, and the Corey case — arguing that the A.C.U. Racing Board's ruling that Corey broke no rule by riding for a record with a promateur is rank sophistry and urges the national officials to overturn it. The piece closes with a defence of the editor's own amateur standing and a call for the League to remove the stigma from professionalism.
- A serialised epistolary cycling romance by W. McIlwraith, reprinted from the Cyclists' Year Book, in which a Glasgow wheelman staying snowbound at a Highland farm intercedes with a crusty retired admiral on behalf of his estranged niece and secures a reconciliation. This instalment concludes the story.
- The paper's women's correspondent reflects on Thanksgiving as a home festival, defends the recent North Shore ladies' tour against press reports of scorching and undue fatigue (calling both claims groundless), and invites lady readers to contribute topics and anecdotes for the column.
- The editor describes a trial of the new rowing tricycle — a sliding-seat machine steered by the feet and propelled by oar-like handles — finding it surprisingly fast and well-suited to indoor track use as winter cross-training, though doubting its practicality on the road.
- A column of short notes, verses, and gossip, including the poem "Cycling Whist" (reprinted from Wheeling), brief items on the Thanksgiving holiday, club news, racing results, trade notes, and miscellaneous wheelman humour.
- Brief notice of a new club formation: the Star Wheel Club of Springfield, Mass., with its elected officers listed.