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The Wheel World (1884). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/the-wheel-world/vol2s-3/
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Articles in this issue
- A humorous fictional story involving burglars who use bicycles in their criminal escapades.
- A narrative account of a three-week cycling tour through Germany and Austria.
- A humorous fictional story about an elderly American encountering a cyclist.
- A humorous sketch by A. R. Hind of Nottingham B.C. in which a club president's annual-dinner speech on the rise, growth and future of the sport leads into a vision of cycling in 1983.
- An account of a cycling journey from London to Paris, describing the channel crossing and French roads.
- A romantic or poetic sketch set around cycling.
- A story founded on fact, opening on a moonlit June night with the cyclists Ralph and Edward riding out to a country house that proves to be on fire.
- A touring narrative describing a tricycle journey through Switzerland's mountain roads.
- An account, taken from Ixion in the Bicycling World, of two American club riders trying a Rucker tandem with a 56in. and a 52in. wheel, its balance, mounting and braking.
- A competitor's humorous account, by a frequent rider, of the bustle and discomforts of travelling to and taking part in a race meeting in the Potteries with a bicycle and a tricycle.
- Report from the San Francisco Morning Call of Mr. Finkler of the San Francisco B.C.'s 787-mile fortnight tour north from Petaluma to Lakeport and Napa, and his 100-mile ride to Hollister.
- A comic poem, reprinted from Rugby Monthly, on the urchin who calls out to cyclists in the street and park.
- A story set in a hamlet near Cincinnati where a bicyclist named Will Maillew races down the hill to warn the village that the reservoir dam has broken; reprinted from the Springfield Wheelman's Gazette.
- A short sketch by Jan Elenge of a lady rider on horseback and a C.T.C. cyclist meeting at a stream at Shere, Surrey, on 1st August 1884.
- An essay by W. Beck in praise of the quality of backbone in the cyclist, opening with American verse on the word.
- A report on a camping tour organised by a cycling club.
- A story by Kaleidoscope of a midwinter ride from Exeter back via Axminster in which the rider, near Hunter's Lodge, falls in with a cart of rough-looking men.
- Notes on a three-week tricycle tour through Saxony, Bavaria and the Thuringian Forest, where the tricycle was almost unknown.
- Details of the racing and sporting programme of the Springfield cycling club.
- A short essay on touring as the backbone of cycling, treating its pleasures of anticipation, realization and retrospection and ending with practical points on companions and clothing.
- Notes and impressions from cycling activities around Harrogate.
- Club news and cycling affairs from across Britain and Ireland.
- A biographical profile and portrait of London cyclist H.J. Webb.
- The monthly racing column by Scorchalong, on the Northern amateur 25 miles championship at Newcastle, Sharp's wrong entry at Windsor and Webb's 100 miles at the Crystal Palace.
- Club news for the holiday month, noting London and Midland clubmen on tour, riders bound for the American Springfield Meet and the Glen Rovers' 50 miles road ride on the Great North Road.
- Irish cycling news, including a Dublin bicycle theft sentence, followed by results of Irish race meetings.
- Abridgments of patent specifications published to 15th June 1884 for bicycles and tricycles, compiled by Hart & Co., patent agents, Fleet Street.