The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 8, No 14
Articles in this issue
- The standing colophon of the Cycling Publishing Company, listing subscription and combination-offer prices (Bicycling World, Outing) and the rules for subscribers and contributors submitting matter to The Wheel.
- Front-page paragraphs noting spectators at the N.C.U. championships, 216 new L.A.W. applications, St. Joseph's bicycle ban being fought in court, H. R. Cordon's Land's End to John O'Groats ride on a Facile, the new Missouri L.A.W. division and Camden Wheelmen, and a discussion of handicapping racers against roadsters.
- Five Fort Wayne B.C. members — C. W. Edgerton, S. D. Bond, T. F. Thieme, F. C. Lightfoot and H. A. Vogel — ride 226 miles from Lima through Sidney, Piqua, Springfield, Yellow Springs, Xenia and Dayton, hosted by the Sidney and Champion City clubs.
- A Singer & Co. (Coventry) letter challenging the understated weights claimed for racing bicycles in the cycling press and proposing that makers stamp and certify each machine's true weight, sans saddle and pedals, at 16 ounces to the pound.
- A reprint from Karl Kron's forthcoming "X. M. Miles on a Bi." of F. Jenkins's 268-mile Manhattan Bicycle Club tour from New York to the Catskills on Harvard roadsters, said to be the first bicycles pushed to the mountain summit.
- An editorial previewing the Buffalo L.A.W. meet's debates over the amateur rule, admitting professionals, league dues and the official organship, and the "Big Four" tour to follow.
- A Buffalo dispatch of July 2 reporting Beckwith, Terry, Kendall and Aaron elected L.A.W. officers, professionals barred from the League, and Rhodes's record-breaking Lynn 50-mile road race on a Victor.
- Short notes on Albany B.C.'s 175 members, the Boston Club's Downer's Landing clam-bake run, the New Jersey Wheelmen's annual road race won by J. G. Willever, and progress on Karl Kron's subscription book.
- A Boston letter signed C. S. H. giving a full account of the Lynn 50-mile road race won by W. A. Rhodes (Victor) after Rowe's fall, plus trade news of the Cunningham Co. failure and Frank Weston locating near the Overman Wheel Co.
- F. A. Elwell's notice asking entrants for the Down East / Moosehead tour to confirm by postal card that they will appear on the 17th.
- The N.C.U. amateur championships at Aston Lower Grounds, Birmingham — Sanders Sellers beating Illston by six inches in the one-mile and Cripps taking the five-mile tricycle — with record rides by Webber, Letchford, Gatehouse and Furnival.
- The Ohio–Pennsylvania Interstate meet at Youngstown on June 24, where C. M. Brown of Greenville took the one- and five-mile interstate championships before 5,000 spectators.
- Capt. Chas. W. Freeman's proposed 15-day tour up the Mississippi from Rock Island to St. Paul, Minneapolis, Lake Minnetonka and Chicago, inviting wheelmen to join for under $50.
- A humorous club-room sketch, prefaced by comic verse, in which the "Club Dude" and "Club Liar" trade tall tales about Jersey mosquitoes and a night infested with bed-bugs.
- An editorial reading-notice recommending Gormully & Jeffery's American Challenge, Ideal and Safety machines, offered at low prices.
- A fixtures calendar of forthcoming meets and tours — the Buffalo L.A.W. meet, Big Four and Down East tours and state-division meets — with entry-closing dates and addresses.