The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 3, No 2
Articles in this issue
- The editor's column credits Harold Serrell for the new masthead design and reports the long-distance road records set by the Boston (102 miles) and Massachusetts (118 miles) bicycle clubs, while needling rumors of Pope Mfg. Co. club ties and lamenting New York's small clubs ahead of the October 26th Philadelphia Meet.
- Reports that American tricycle sales more than doubled in 1882 over all prior years combined, crediting improved construction and growing press attention, and invites tricyclists to send the paper their notes and opinions.
- Reprinted from The 'Cyclist, a detailed report of the fourth annual amateur 50-mile road tricycling championship started at Ganwick Corner, won by M. J. Lowndes of the Congleton B.C. in a record 3h 47m 40s on a Coventry Rotary, with T. R. Marriott of Nottingham second.
- An editorial answering correspondent Mr. Chang, arguing that Americans deserve credit for the modern bicycle and citing American-machine feats such as Clarence Jenkins's fourteen race wins at Louisville and the Massachusetts club's 118-mile ride.
- An editorial on how American clubs form around a local bicycle agent and then fracture through indiscriminate membership and too many officers, advising small clubs to limit themselves to a president, secretary-treasurer and captain.
- A laudatory review of the new monthly The Wheelman, praising its typography and singling out Chas. E. Pratt's 'The Wheel around the Hub,' C. E. Hawley's prize paper, President Bates on highway laws, and Pratt's 'The Tariff Question.'
- An editorial asking whether any cycling paper should hold a monopoly on League of American Wheelmen news, noting that The Wheel has freely furnished League matters and keeping its columns open to League officers.
- From the Boston Traveller, an account of four Massachusetts Bicycle Club members — Lieuts. Williams and Griffiths and Messrs. Philbrick and Wilmot — riding a record 118 miles from Boston to Newburyport and back on September 29th against a stiff northeast wind.
- A note that Chief Consul Weston holds all the missing Bicycle Touring Club badges, plus the news that bicycles will be carried free on the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads for the October 26th Philadelphia bi-centennial.
- Reprinted from The 'Cyclist, results of the Amateur Championships of Ireland at Lansdowne Road on September 23rd, where J. H. Craig took the one- and four-mile titles and W. M. Woodside of Coleraine the ten-mile, amid complaints that Irish form lags behind England's.
- Club notes from the Brooklyn B.C. (Andrews Preston's resignation; an Election-day run to Morristown), the renaming of Wheeling's Nail City club to the Wheeling Wheelmen, the Aeriel B.C. of Chicago's first meet, and a history of the Manhattan Club from its 1880 founding to its recent reorganization.
- A column of satirical rhetorical questions aimed at local wheelmen, asking why a club president takes twenty-two hops to mount, why Pitman wears amateur medals while shunning the League, and whether Capt. E. C. Hodges will stand for election.
- A short dispatch from Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory dated October 4, reporting that journalist and bicycle tourist Will Ross of Danville, Illinois has ridden some 1,400 miles toward San Francisco but will go no further for fear of being snowbound in the mountains.
- A calendar of fixtures: a three-mile race at Stenton, Pa. on October 14th at the Olympic Athletic Club games, entries closing for the Young America Cricket Club races at Stenton on the 21st, and the grand Philadelphia bicycle meet of October 26th.
- A standing notice giving membership terms for the Bicycle Touring Club (Chief Consul Frank Weston, Savin Hill, Boston) and the League of American Wheelmen (Secretary Kingman N. Putnam, 54 Wall Street).