The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 2, No 22
Articles in this issue
- A miscellany of short cycling notes for the week of July 19, 1882, including Gideon's five-mile record splits, Hon. I. Keith Falconer's 994-mile Land's End to John O'Groat's ride in under thirteen days, the birth of the Alpha Tricycle Club at West Newton, Mass., and news that Chief Consul Weston sails for Europe on July 22nd.
- A satirical set of cycling-themed arithmetic puzzles, credited to 'Mem. O'Randum' of the Bicycling Tomes, poking fun at exaggerating tourists, spendthrift junior clerks on nickel-plated Rudges, and club secretaries who write race reports on both sides of the paper.
- News from the Peoria Bicycle Club of Peoria, Illinois, re-organised on June 12th with ten members under president C. F. Vail; the correspondent notes a craze for the largest possible wheel sizes and the likelihood of two local ministers joining.
- A first-person account, reprinted from The Bicycle, of a 360-mile bush ride through New South Wales from Sydney via Mittagong, Marulan, Goulburn and Temora goldfield — camping through a bushfire amid stampeding wildlife — billed as the longest bicycle ride on record in the Australian colonies.
- Editorial reporting Judge Lawrence's Supreme Court ruling sustaining the Central Park Commissioners' ban on bicycles, after William M. Wright and others were jailed for non-payment of fines; it notes Pope Manufacturing Co. bore all trial expenses while the L. A. W. gave no support.
- Brief notice of the new weekly journal The Tricyclist, edited by Lacy Heillier and published at 12 Smithford Street, Coventry, at 10s. 6d., which aims to rival the Tricycling Journal.
- Results from the Kentucky Bicycle Club's July 4th races at Louisville — five events from quarter-mile heats to a five-mile championship — with wins by C. H. Jenkins, W. Francke, N. G. Crawford and Sam Holloway.
- Account, from the Spirit of the Times, of the fifty-mile road championship on the Druid Hill Lake Course at Baltimore on July 8, won by C. H. Jenkins in 3h. 35m. 34s. after R. F. Foster set early distance records and retired at 35 miles with a mangled arm, with E. E. Williams second and Frank Fisher third.
- Account, reprinted from the Bicycling Times, of the third and deciding race for the 25-mile professional world championship between F. Wood of Leicester and R. James of Birmingham on the Aylestone-road Ground, won by James in a record 1h. 20m. 15s. before nearly 4,000 spectators despite Wood having fallen in practice the day before.
- The Springfield Republican's report of bicycle races run through heavy rain, covering one-, two-, five-mile, half-mile and slow-race events; L. B. Hamilton, a 17-year-old Yale student, won the five-mile in 22m. 30s. and $150 in prizes, while George M. Hendee won the half-mile in 1.49.
- Notice from Chief Consul Frank W. Weston describing the B. T. C. as the international organisation of amateur wheelmen with over 4,000 members worldwide, inviting American wheelmen to join for an annual fee of $2.50 including silver badge and membership ticket.
- Schedule of regular weekly club runs — Lenox Bicycle Club on Wednesdays, Manhattan Bicycle Club on Saturdays at 4 p.m. — plus notice of a fifty-mile bicycle race planned for September.
- Frank W. Weston's notice inviting wheelmen to join a tour party sailing July 22nd to England, riding from Bradford to Coventry via Harrogate (where they will attend the Sixth Annual North of England Meet of the Bicycle Touring Club), at a cost not exceeding $160.