The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 1, No 16
Articles in this issue
- Editorial miscellany noting special Fall River Line rates to the Boston League Meet, Prof. F. S. Rollinson's proposed 100-mile professional championship race at the Polo Grounds about May 28, Henry Sturmey's newly published Tricyclists' Indispensible Annual (Iliffe & Son, Coventry), the Manhattan Athletic Club's opening handicap games, a Pope Columbia shown in London by Withers & Co., and Gale Sherman of Lima, Ohio and James Revell planning long rides to the Meet; continues on p.2 with R. H. Hodgson's son A. E. Hodgson, age 3 1/2, on the smallest bicycle in America.
- A comic verse dialogue by Julius Wilcox, originally written for the Boston Bicycle Club dinner of February 1880, in which a skeptical horse and a confident bicycle debate their merits, roles and futures on the road.
- Readers' letters including Capt. C. W. F. of Farmdale, Kentucky on bicycle bronzing and a comparison of English versus American machine prices; F. A. J. of New Haven on a device combining a hub-lamp and cyclometer; and W. Heel of Albany urging legal action against New York's Park Commissioners and the L.A.W. to demand wheelmen's rights, while advising Capt. C. W. F. on knee-breeches and handle length.
- A first-person account by "Special C." of a Saturday ride from New York City via Fifth Avenue, McComb's Dam Bridge, Jerome Park, Woodlawn Cemetery and Mount Vernon to New Rochelle, a 40-mile round trip over roads ranging from macadam to rough sandy stretches, with dinner at the New Rochelle House kept by Peter Yost.
- A detailed technical review, signed "Cyclist," of the Rudge bicycle, tracing its history from Dan Rudge's Wolverhampton workshop to new Coventry premises run by Harry Osborne, and describing its weldless steel tubes, single ball bearings, Stanley head on the Humber principle and Woolley's Duplex saddle.
- An editorial statement of purpose inviting correspondence on club meetings, races, tours and inventions, and reminding contributors that the paper goes to press the Saturday before publication, at 75 Fulton Street, New York.
- A signed editorial by Julius Wilcox arguing that holding the League of American Wheelmen annual Meet in Boston rather than New York was a strategic mistake, and warning that growing rivalry between New York and Boston wheelmen threatens to split the L.A.W.
- Boston correspondent "Juvenis" reports on clubs' weekly runs preparing for the May League Meet (expecting about 850 wheels), praises the Excelsior Cyclometer, describes an unusual triangular three-wheel machine ridden by three persons, notes the Marlboro Bicycle Club's planned "antique and horrible" Fourth of July parade, and argues that a cradle spring relieved his riding-induced vertigo.
- Subscription and advertising notice stating The Wheel publishes on alternate Wednesdays at $1.25 per year (European 7s.), with remittances to Fred. Jenkins at 75 Fulton Street, New York, and a London agency at the Bicycling Times Office, Fleet Street, care of C. J. Fox, Jr.