The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 10, No 11
Articles in this issue
- The editors explain their combination-subscription plan by which readers can obtain a year's subscription to The Wheel at no extra cost by subscribing to any of eighteen popular magazines—including Outing, Harper's, and the Century—at the normal single-publication price, with The Cycle and Bicycling World also available at modest premiums.
- Announcement of a planned 12-day cycling tour in July 1886 through New Brunswick, Canada, following the St. John River from Grand Falls to the Bay of Fundy, limited to 30 American riders at a total cost of $38 from Boston including Pullman berth and a freight car for wheels, with Capt. W.A. Maclauchlan of the St. John Bicycle Club commanding the Canadian contingent.
- Race report on the Ixion Bicycle Club's fifty-mile road race in Orange, N.J., on May 31st, won by P.M. Harris in 4 hours 16 minutes 26 seconds over a three-lap triangular course, with Frank Thayer second and Irving Shaw third despite taking two headers; five of nine starters finished inside the previous club record.
- Rev. Sylvanus Stall's narrative account of the first Clerical Wheelmen's Tour, a 17-day bicycle journey through Ontario with twenty clergymen and laymen from across the U.S. including Rev. Evans, Rev. Cowan, Rev. MacDuff, and photographer Holcombe, describing stormy starts near Niagara Falls, hospitable church receptions in St. Catharines, Woodstock, Stratford, and Goderich, and a century ride with six members completing the 100-mile run from Port Hope to Kingston.
- A primer on cycling history from the 1816 velocipede and Pierre Lallement's 1863 wooden bicycle through Col. Pope's 1876 Columbia to current machines, covering safety bicycles, tricycles, and speed records including L.D. Munger's 259½-mile 24-hour record and Mrs. Allen of Birmingham's 200-mile day, with capsule descriptions of leading makers—Pope, Gormully & Jeffery, Overman, H.B. Smith, Stoddard Lovering, Wm. Read & Sons, Spalding, and Coventry Machinists Co.
- Preview and complete entry list for the N.Y. and N.J. inter-club 35-mile road race at Clinton Avenue the following Saturday, with seven clubs each fielding four riders: Bellerophon Wheelmen, Kings County Wheelmen, Ilderan B.C., Elizabeth Wheelmen, New York B.C., Harlem Wheelmen, and Rutherford Wheelmen.
- Concluding coverage of the Boston Cycle Club show, detailing veteran machines including the original Lallement bone-shaker, an 1861 Hartford wooden tricycle loaned by Overman, and a Columbia ridden 3,409 miles by Hugh J. High from Pottstown to Seward, Neb.; trade stands from Stoddard Lovering (Rudge machines), Wm. Read & Sons (Royal Mail), W.B. Everett (Singer), S.T. Clark (New Rapid), Spalding (Humber tandem), and W.W. Stall (Star and a special Cripper built for Mrs. Stall) are described.
- Supplementary announcement of the 1886 Clerical Wheelmen's Tour—"Ten Days of Recreation and Christian Fellowship"—listing twenty-two newly enrolled clergymen and printing the full ten-day itinerary from New York City through the Hudson Valley, Albany, Saratoga, and Cooperstown, covering 334 total miles on the wheel at a contingent-fund cost of $2 per rider.
- Regular news department noting: the Yale Club annual meet at New Haven; E.P. Baird of the Orange Wanderers rode 126 miles on Decoration Day to earn the century medal; the Ixions plan a Yonkers-and-back road race open to any machine; the Bicycling World has cut its subscription to $1 per year; and the Illinois Division annual meet will be held at Cheltenham Beach, Chicago, on July 3rd.
- Results of the East Hartford B.C. meet: Bidwell won the club championship mile in 3:14, De Blois took the Hartford Wheel Club championship in 3:15 and the three-miles open in 11:19 3-5 over J.S. Kulp of Wilkesbarre, and Horton won the open mile in 3:16.
- Racing notes from multiple venues: W.A. Illston won the half-mile handicap at the Anfield B.C. meet in Liverpool in 1m. 23 2-5s.; F.L. Ray of Ixion B.C. won the two-mile handicap at the Brooklyn Athletic Club games; C.B. Keen of Penn won the two-mile final at the Inter-Collegiate games at Manhattan A.C. in 6:39; and the Lynn Cycle Track Association announced a June 17th card featuring Prince vs. Neilson for the ten-mile championship.
- Calendar of upcoming cycling events for June–July 1886, including the Kings County Wheelmen annual spring meeting June 19th at Brooklyn, the Trojan Wheelmen race meet at Troy N.Y. June 22nd, the Canadian Wheelmen's Association annual meet in Montreal, the L.A.W. tour from Rochester to Harper's Ferry July 5–16, and the Illinois Division meet at Chicago July 3rd.
- Account of the formation of the American Cyclists' Union as a rival racing body to the L.A.W., led by President H.E. Ducker of Springfield and adopting N.C.U. of England rules recognizing only amateurs and professionals; founding clubs include Springfield, Hartford, Meriden, Lynn, and Nonanium, with club membership at $5 annually, the constitution and by-laws drafted at a committee meeting in Springfield.
- Detailed results of the three-day international tournament held May 21–23: W.A. Illston of Speedwell B.C. broke the English half-mile record twice, reaching 1m. 16 1-5s. in the final; P. Furnival of England won the five-miles International Championship Shield in 16m. 1 2-5s.; A.E. Langley set a tricycle record in the one-mile heat; and J. Lee won the two-miles tricycle scratch final in 6m. 54 3-5s. over E. Kiderlen of Holland.