Vol 4, No 21
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Citation
The Wheel World 4, no. 21 (1882). cyclearchive.com, https://cyclearchive.com/magazines/the-wheel-world/vol4-21/
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Articles in this issue
- An editorial reviewing the role of the cycling press in promoting and consolidating the sport, arguing that specialist cycling journalism serves functions no general-interest paper could perform.
- An article prompted by the editor's investment in a double tricycle, arguing that sociable tricycling is setting a new fashion among bicyclists who find it suits winter riding.
- An essay by Harry J. Swindley surveying the rise of a distinct cycling literature, praising the poets, travel writers, and humourists who have made the bicycle their subject.
- A verse meditation on the relationship between cycling and poetic inspiration, celebrating the many talented poets whom the sport has drawn to its cause.
- The second instalment of this serialised story, in which Jack Medlicott, stiff from a sea rescue the day before, calls on the old gentleman Mellish and is warmly received by the family he saved.
- A response to the December editorial on club decay, arguing that superannuated office-seekers who cling to club positions are the deadliest plague upon a club's vitality.
- The regular editorial column lamenting the apparent defection of keen cyclists to theatres and other diversions, and warning that cycling seems to be going to the dogs.
- A round-up of news and events from cycling clubs across Britain and abroad, including the growth of the B.T.C. and notes on various club activities.
- An account by Blackwell and Harman of their epic end-to-end ride from Cornwall to the north of Scotland, starting at Finsbury Park and taking a night train to Plymouth before setting off.
- A regular column of cycling news and correspondence from western England, concluding with New Year greetings from "Spanks, Junr."
- A profile of Charles R. Maddox, Hon. Sec. of the private Wanderers club, described as well known and invariably respected in the inner circles of cycledom.
- A compiled listing of recent applications for letters patent concerning velocipedes, bicycle backbones, and related mechanisms, compiled by Hart & Co., Patent Agents.