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Articles in this issue
- A poetic acrostic welcoming readers to the first annual supplement of The Wheel World.
- A comprehensive review of the main cycling events and developments of the year 1880.
- A detailed summary of the amateur and professional bicycle racing results and highlights of 1880.
- A listing and discussion of amateur cycling records achieved during 1880.
- A review of the Bicycle Union's activities, controversies, and achievements throughout 1880.
- A review of the Bicycle Touring Club's activities and meetings during 1880.
- A first-person narrative account of a cycling tour through the Wharfe Valley at Whitsuntide.
- A comic Irish-dialect ballad describing the bicycle meet at Hampton Court, with Singer and Humber riders, Eclipse machines, policemen on horseback and the London Bicycle Club among the entrants.
- A humorous personal account of a cyclist's one and only experience competing in a bicycle race.
- A general essay on the pleasures, benefits, and growing popularity of cycling as a sport and pastime.
- A short verse, headed 'A Lunatic's Ravings', imagining where the well-known riders, the malcontents and the Bicycle Union will be a decade on.
- An article examining the state and quality of cycling tracks and racing paths around Britain.
- A discussion of the hazards and techniques of cycling after dark, with practical safety advice.
- A humorous and instructive personal narrative about the trials of learning to ride a bicycle.
- A mock-biblical legend, said to have been unearthed at Nineveh, of a bicyclist on the footpath who is lifted from his saddle by a tree branch and arrested by a constable.
- A dramatic story or account of a long-distance bicycle race contested for a prize of one hundred pounds.
- A poem bidding farewell to the summer's riding as winter lays the bicycle up, with a tribute to a champion whose speed remains unequalled.
- W. A. Smith's advice on the diet of the racing cyclist, contrasting the old rigid training regime with the more generous modern fare.
- W. A. Smith on clothing for bicycling, recommending flannel or wool next the skin, flannel lining for jackets and knickerbockers, and matching it to club uniform.
- An article arguing that the prevailing emphasis on racing is detrimental to the broader cycling community.
- An acrostic on the name of this annual, chosen for the Christmas number, praising the Wheel World and signed Aout.
- A winter verse of greeting to wanderers of the wheel, gathered round the fire while the bicycles lie idle, welcoming the arrival of Icycles.
- A humorous essay in which the writer, after wading through ten miles of bicycling literature, tries to define who the model cycler might be.
- A song for the members of the Bicycle Touring Club, written and composed by Llewellyn-Winter, printed with piano music across pp.74-79.
- A first-person tale by Faed of a Canonbury-uniformed rider on the Brighton road, with excursions to Folkestone and Brighton, involving a mysterious ghostly encounter.
- A letter to the Wheel World dated San Francisco, October 1880, describing a spring tour by bicycle from Oakland south through San Lorenzo, Mount Eden and Alvarado.
- A mock-biblical satire on the New York city youth who learns to ride a bicycle at half a trade shekel the hour, falls repeatedly, and is tempted by vanity on a road ride past admiring maidens.
- A bicycling song by Jupiter of the Rovers' B.C., set to an original tune, praising the pleasures of an early spin.
- W. A. Smith's practical advice to riders, beginning with the choice of a machine and the false economy of buying a cheap one.
- A touring anecdote founded on fact, recalling a 1879 ride through Sutherland in the far north of Scotland, with advice to take a bicycle to Edinburgh by train.
- A Christmas story for bicyclists by Henry V. L. Stanton of the B.T.C., about two cyclists riding a Hampshire lane on a cold winter evening, subtitled 'One Good Turn Deserves Another'.
- A comic song, with chorus, about a cyclist who rides a steam-driven bicycle that runs away and plunges into a chalk pit.
- An essay on the general, summer and winter organisation of a bicycle club, from the choice of captain and officers to club runs and racing.
- R. P. Hampton Roberts of the Belsize B.C. on the importance of accurate timing at race meetings, with the problems facing a single timekeeper and a call for responsible officials.
- Details of the Western Amateur Bicycle Club's championship handicap of 1 January 1870 on the Ealing Road, with entrants, starters and officials, and notes on the club, formed in 1869.
- A comic verse describing a bicyclist's fall and death among the mud of Trafalgar Square after a morning in the Strand.
- A tale translated from a parchment scroll, of a warlock and the death of the goodwife Gresilda, narrated in mock-archaic style across pp.107-112.
- A comic song to the air 'Oh! Pink Dominoes' lamenting the bites of mosquitoes.
- A song by Algernon Sidney in verses on bicycles seen through spring, summer and the other seasons, with the refrain 'Bicycles flit, &c.'.
- A letter reprinted from the Gentleman's Magazine of May 1819, communicated by Clarion, promoting the velocipede as a means of travelling at six or eight miles an hour.
- A Pinafore parody in praise of Captain Howard of the Redditch and District B.C., Chief Consul of the B.T.C., signed R. and D. B. C.
- A comic verse parodying 'How doth the little busy bee', on the torments of the mosquito.
- A dated table of H. L. Cortis's races from 1877 to 1880, with clubs, distances, starts and placings, including Wanderers' B.C. and Caterham meetings.
- A comic fictional piece about a legendary cycling figure named Sir Hercules Smith.
- A reference listing of published books, pamphlets, and periodicals relating to bicycling.
- A short poem on the freedom of the cycler borne on his wheel along high roads and bye-lanes.
- A page of double and triple acrostics and charades set for readers of the annual.
- A visit to the Wheel World office and Mr. Hillier, then a dream of a future 'Utopian' bicycle club with concerts and a run to Brighton with lady members, by J. L. T. of the B.T.C.
- A brief anecdote of a rider near Newton Abbot and Teignmouth who startles a circus elephant by yelling, signed P. G. H.
- The editors' note thanking contributors to Icycles, regretting rejected matter and the omitted racing tables, and promising some items for the double Christmas number of the Wheel World.
- A narrative poem by J. C. Sawtell of the Sherborne B.C. in which wheelmen help a market-returning man whose donkey and load have stalled on a dreary road.
- An article on techniques and challenges of climbing hills on a bicycle, with notes on notable hill climbs.
- A comic song on the troubles of an unlucky novice who pawns his bicycle, parodying 'In the Gloaming'.
- An account by two members of the Chichester and D.B.C. of a 17 October round trip through Midhurst, Petersfield, Alton, Alresford and Tichborne.
- A set of acrostics and puzzles on cycling by Faed's Australian Cousin.
- An introduction to the annual's directory of clubs, explaining that nearly 3,000 applications for particulars were made and offering electro blocks of club badges.
- An alphabetical directory of London bicycle clubs, giving formation date, membership, captain, uniform, badge and honorary secretary, from Alwyne and Albion onward.
- An alphabetical directory of provincial bicycle clubs, with particulars of formation, membership, uniform and secretary, and a list of non-replying clubs.
- A list of the clubs belonging to the Bicycle Union as of 15 December 1880.
- A directory of American bicycle clubs such as Albany, Amherst, Elgin and Newhaven, with formation dates, captains and uniforms.
- The officers for 1880-81 of the League of American Wheelmen, headed by President Charles E. Pratt of Boston, and its directors by state.
- A directory of continental bicycle clubs, including Angers, Bordeaux and Paris, with formation dates, membership and race meetings.
- An essay on the part advertising plays in supporting the Wheel World and the annual, crediting advertising proprietor Harry Etherington and surveying its advertisers.
- A short account of a crossing of Lake Windermere, likely by ferry or boat, during a cycling tour.