The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 3, No 7
Articles in this issue
- Editorial notes reporting the Æolus club still leading the long-distance mileage tallies, the season's advance of the dropped handle-bar and improved pedals (praising Bown's), the theft of Dr. H. M. Schooley's Royal Challenge bicycle in Washington, and the new Central Park commissioner replacing Chas. F. MacLean.
- Reprinted from the Bicycling Times, argues professional riders are not as far behind amateurs as supposed, analyzing the slow 20-mile championship at Leicester against Cortis's and Howell's times and the handicap of the professional standing start.
- Reports the consolidation of the Worcester Bicycle Club and the Æolus Wheel Club into the Worcester-Æolus Wheelmen, listing officers including President Fred S. Pratt and Captain Edw. F. Tolman and a planned twenty-mile club run.
- League Treasurer W. V. Gilman of Nashua, N.H. announces the old-pattern silver League badges are to be sold off, priced $2.00 solid silver or $1.50 plated.
- From the Tricycling Journal, recounts Messrs. W. Bourdon and J. Snow of the Bromley Bicycle Club completing a 719-mile double-tricycle tour to Land's End and back on a 40-inch Meteor Sociable.
- Letters including the Montreal Bicycle Club's protest against changing L.A.W. membership eligibility, a Springfield note on champion Hendee and the club's new uniform, and Ben G. Sanford's report of the Ixion Club's first New York road race, won by H. M. Howard.
- Light impressionistic observations from the Philadelphia meet, noting Kol Kron, R. V. S. Schuyler's handsome American Club machine, the Sanspareils, the Germantown and Capital club delegations, and Place winning his races handily.
- Editorial declining to name any 'best bicycle,' reviewing the writer's four mounts (Standard Columbia, Pacer, Special/American Club and Harvard) and the five leading machines—American Club, Expert Columbia, Harvard, Sanspareil and Yale.
- Reports a handicap mile race at the Polo Grounds won in both heats by F. W. Hunter of the Columbia Athletic Club, with F. E. Davidson second, closing the New York racing season.
- Describes Messrs. Midgley and Arnold of the Æolus Wheel Club of Worcester riding 179 miles in 23h 54m through the Framingham and Boston region to break the long-distance record.
- 'Sigma' in the Tricyclist recounts a tricyclist's awe and terror venturing behind the falling sheet of Niagara Falls in bathing costume amid the cold spray and deafening roar.
- Karl Kron's first-person account of riding the roughly twenty-five-mile Tarrytown-to-Central-Park route without a dismount, attributing his success to the improved condition of the roadway.
- The B.T.C. department giving membership particulars (apply to Chief Consul Frank Weston of Boston; fee $2.50) and listing new applicants such as E. C. Hodges, Frank Egan and Paul Butler.
- Standing L.A.W. department listing the Board of Officers (President W. H. Miller), the standing committees, and a notice that candidate lists and league matters now appear in The Wheel.