The Wheel: Journal of Bicycling, Vol 9, No 6
Articles in this issue
- Column of short cycling news items, including the Iowa Division's 1886 meet set for Des Moines, A.P. Engleheart's 26 wins from 30 races as premier safety-rider, N.H. Van Sicklen twice winning the Pope Cup, W.P. Cramer's 256-mile McCook-to-Denver ride on a 56-inch Columbia, the suspension of the Cyclist and Athlete, and Indiana Chief Consul Wainwright's new Touring Board.
- Reprinted London Standard essay arguing that once cyclists discover how superior the roads of France, Switzerland and Italy are to England's, demand will arise for a new "Cyclists' Bradshaw" listing continental routes with inns and prices, after the manner of Baedeker.
- Boston correspondent 'C.S.H.' reports Munger's failed 24-hour record attempt (abandoned near 214 miles after spraining his ankle on a slipped pedal) against McCurdy's standing record, and a complimentary chop supper at the Boston Club honouring Frank 'Papa' Weston on his recovery, with President Hodges and Mr. Tombs presiding.
- Report on the Ixion Bicycle Club's fourth annual Yonkers-to-New York road race on Election Day, won by Ed S. Robinson over favourite P.M. Harris by half a wheel in rain and mud, timed by Frank A. Egan and M.G. Peoli, followed by a feast at the Grand Union Hotel.
- Account from Bicycling News of the postponed Kangaroo 100-mile road race from Holbeach, England, won by E. Hale of Gainsborough in 6h 42m on a Kangaroo safety, pulverizing the record and earning a piano and gold medal, with D. Belding qualifying for the sub-seven-hour prize.
- Geo. M. Hendee set world tricycle records at Hampden Park, Springfield, on November 4, riding a quarter mile in 42 seconds and a half mile in 1:21 4-5, beating Cripps's marks of 43 3-5 and 1:25.
- John C. Wetmore and D.B. Bonnett of Elizabeth, N.J. established a 50-mile tandem tricycle road record on October 31 riding a Humber over a five-mile course off the Boulevard, taking the records from twenty miles upward; Geo. D. Gideon and A.G. Powell hold those from one to twenty miles.
- Round-up of meets: the Chester A.C. games at Philadelphia (R.A. Rice and G.A.E. Kohler winners), the North Adams fair races swept by R. Dewey of Pittsfield, the Brooklyn Bicycle Club road race won by L.W. Slocum in 46m 15s, Kansas City club races, Klipstein and Hildebrand's St. Louis-to-Washington ride, and college races at Yale and Harvard.
- Letter signed 'Jonah' correcting The Wheel's earlier figures on the Elizabeth Wheelmen, noting the club has 62 active members and that thirteen men rode over 1,000 miles each in the first nine months of 1885 (led by L.B. Bonnett, 2,255), totalling 28,965 reported miles.
- Letter from R.L. Scott, secretary of the Westfield Wheelmen, reporting that seven cyclometer-equipped members of the 25-man club rode a combined 13,853 miles for the season on Lakin's Cyclometer, inviting other clubs to publish their figures.
- Rowe of Lynn rode a quarter mile at Hampden Park, Springfield, on November 5 in 0:35 1-5, a second faster than his and G.M. Hendee's previous record of 0:36 1-5.
- Humorous poem signed 'Georgius' mocking boastful fast men who answer every challenge with the refrain that they 'were at Springfield and raced at Hartford too, by gosh.'
- Editorial deriding the late Cyclist and Athlete's scheme for a $2-share track at Waverly, N.J., and urging New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City to form an Amateur Track Association to build a Hampden Park-style racing track near Gotham.
- Review of the November Outing, noting John Joline Ross on English lawn-tennis champions, the second instalment of Thomas Stevens's round-the-world bicycle journey ('Germany, Austria, and Hungary') illustrated by W.A. Rogers, and contributions by Kate Field, Maurice Thompson and others.
- Ride account by 'L.G.B.' of the Mercury Bicycle Club's 75 3-4-mile run on October 25 from Minneapolis to Hastings and back via St. Paul and Fort Snelling, including a lampless night ride over bad roads, claimed as the longest straight-away run yet made in the State.
- Club column reporting formations and officer elections at the Alleghany Pa. Cyclers, a new 40-member Hartford club, the Independent Wheelmen of Brooklyn, the Los Angeles Wheelmen, the Vesper Wheelmen of Philadelphia, the Montclair N.J. Wheelmen and the Tioga Cycling Club of Philadelphia, with notes on the St. Louis and Gotham L.A.W. meet bids.