The Wheel World, Vol 4, No 24
Articles in this issue
- An editorial reflecting on the departure of several prominent Bicycle Union officers and arguing that the institution will find equally capable replacements, as willing unpaid workers for the common good are always to be found.
- An extract from Dr. Richardson's writings extolling the new pleasures of tricycling—particularly the satisfaction of covering twenty-five or thirty miles a day through one's own natural strength and skill.
- A gentle short story in which a bicyclist touring North Derbyshire follows a shady lane to a remote ivy-covered cottage, finding unexpected rural hospitality on a warm summer's day.
- A profile of Boverton Redwood, F.C.S., F.I.C., describing his scientific background and his prominent role in the cycling world rather than his private career.
- Extracts from the New York Sunday Courier reporting on American cycling club members touring England and the continent, including a Harvard man who covered 1,500 miles in 28 days.
- The concluding instalment of C. E. Oliver's bicycle tour through Normandy and Paris, covering the return journey through Dreux, Verneuil, and Bernay to the channel.
- A round-up of club news from across Britain, including the City Rovers' social at Merton, notes on various club balls and officer appointments.
- The regular editorial column noting that the many mists of March will—if the old proverb holds—bring many frosts in May, and reviewing the month's cycling events.
- A whimsical encounter on a Devonshire roadside with a cycling poet who can never get beyond his first verse, from whose notebook he reads a series of charming incomplete poems about bicycles, scientists, and market gardeners.
- The regular column of cycling news from western England, including notes on the Chard, Wells, Dorchester, Sherborne, and Shaftesbury clubs and their officer elections.
- The Irish correspondent's column noting the rapid growth of Dublin cycling clubs to eleven and criticising the Wheel World Annual for omitting key Irish events and club information.
- A satirical verse sequence by "Tiianambungo" of the Raleigh B.C. imagining prominent cycling personalities in mock-heroic comic portraits.
- A special report describing the February 1882 meeting of Melbourne bicycle club delegates at the Oriental Hotel to form an Australian Cyclists' Union modelled on the English Bicycle Union.
- A column of cycling news from the Midlands, noting the return of cycling activity after a quiet winter and surveying events from the region's clubs.
- A comic ballad about a uniformed cyclist who stops at a roadside inn to wet his whistle and becomes embroiled in a convivial evening with the locals.
- An article arguing that the widely held belief that bicycling is especially dangerous is mistaken, and that accidents which occur on public roads are simply more visible than those in other sports.
- A comic short story in which Jones, having just bought a second-hand 56-inch bicycle, demonstrates it to Mrs. Jones with predictably disastrous results.
- A story by "Handel Barre" recounting how the author, a humble member of the cycling press, was spectacularly April-fooled at a cycling club ball where he was mistaken for someone else and called upon to make a speech.
- A playful column of punning one-liners about cycling brand names, noting that the "Monarch" has a seat you cannot be "throned" from and the "Salvo" goes like a shot.
- A humorous piece in which the hapless Puffanblow is berated by a friend for taking up bicycling at his time of life, before the sport's virtues are grudgingly acknowledged.
- A compiled listing of recent applications for letters patent concerning tricycles, bicycle saddles, and velocipede components, compiled by Hart & Co., Patent Agents.