The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 2, No 1
Articles in this issue
- Editorial news notes opening Volume II: urging subscription renewals, previewing the L.A.W. championship races, thanking the Waverly fair officials, noting Bicycle Touring Club badges en route, the American Institute Fair's first Columbia bicycle exhibit, and Prince's win over Wilson and Rollinson at Hingham.
- A comic verse commemorating a club-run incident in which a party of Essex Bicycle Club men, caught wheeling on the side-path by a policeman, were left to face their accoster.
- Results from recent amateur meetings, including the New York and Manhattan Athletic Clubs' three-mile scratch at Mott Haven (won by Chas. A. Reed in 10:32), plus Hohokus, Waverly, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal and the N.A.A.A.A. two-mile in which Reed beat Lafon on the post.
- The lead editorial, signed J.W., prompted by a young Irish rider's fatal fall when his back-wheel brake cord snapped; it argues for sound front-wheel brakes and weighs the 'Cyclist's proposed brake-lever and spoon improvements, including a cam-driven spoon.
- A Boston city-letter signed "Handy Andy" on local racing form, doubting Woodside, praising Prince's plucky Hingham win, previewing the Boston club's 20-mile championship (Stall, Deane, Clark) and the possible split of the Boston and Massachusetts clubs.
- Brief editorial replies to correspondents V.W.W., C.W.F. of Boston, and others.
- A satirical essay reprinted from the New York Times, set against the debate over admitting bicyclists to Central Park, joking that horses bolt from riders because they mistake their long stockings and improbable calves for a lady in a bathing dress.
- A calendar of forthcoming race meetings headed by the League of American Wheelmen's first annual meeting on the Polo Grounds, October 6th, with further fixtures at Stenton, Elkton, Dayton, Charlotte, Willimantic and Lansing.
- An account of the Germantown Bicycle Club's third annual supper at "Travers," with Vice-President H. W. Gill and L.A.W. Treasurer Dilwyn Wistar present, and a fund raised toward a club house after Fairmount Park lifted its bicycle restrictions.
- A letter from Capt. C. W. F. of Farmdale, Ky. on solitary riding in the summer heat, a chaotic "string" race at the Lexington fair that wrecked a D.H.F. Premier and a Yale, and a tall local rider he jokes could break English mile records.
- A note that Frank H. Douglas of the Kings County Wheelmen has been elected Secretary of that club.
- Part VII of "Old Exodus's" 1,030-mile tour from Lima, Ohio to Boston, covering the final legs through the Berkshires, the Springfield Armory, Worcester and Framingham into Boston, completing the trip in 21 days without mechanical failure.