The Wheel Cycling Trade Review, Vol 3, No 3
Articles in this issue
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The paper engages with letters from New Orleans correspondent 'Bi' and cycling editor 'Perseus' of Sporting Life calling for popular election of League national officers, arguing the proxy system is unjust but concluding that while popular election is right in principle no feasible plan exists that would give better results than the current system.
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The paper outlines its settled view of what the League should focus on: a strong executive board, a Racing Board as national arbiter of path and road racing, extended transportation privileges in the tradition of Burley B. Ayres, rights and privileges legislation, and above all a national roads improvement bureau.
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The paper describes the type of cycling enthusiast who expects free machines in exchange for influence or advertising value, arguing that transcontinental journeys and sensation rides no longer have advertising value now that cycling has grown into the public mind, and predicting that more legitimate systems of trading will increasingly prevail.
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The paper notes that Wheeling contradicts Woodside's version of events in the racing swindle, with Wheeling saying all three men — Rowe, Morgan, and Temple — were equally to blame, a view The Wheel considers reasonable from a high-class honest American paper.
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The New Orleans correspondent describes how Louisiana's single proxy vote is going to a Luscomb man despite almost every member he has spoken to preferring Jessup, illustrating how chief consuls speak for states they do not represent and making a case for reform.
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Prominent club members suggest forming a cyclists' division for the Washington Centennial parade on 30 April in New York, and the paper recommends cycle trade manufacturers and importers also show wheels on floats in the industrial parade, contrasting modern machines with historical curiosities.