The Wheelmen's Gazette, Vol 1, No 10
Articles in this issue
- Pope Manufacturing Co. promotes the durability of Columbia bicycles by noting nine years of road service without a single worn-out machine, citing their dominance in long-distance and road riding.
- The Springfield Bicycle Mfg. Co. describes the Roadster's clutch mechanism in detail, explaining how it grips smoothly at the slightest touch, eliminates dead centres, and prevents headers on hills.
- Sam L. T. Clark and Co. of Baltimore preview the full range of New Rapid and Quadrant machines for 1887, including new safety bicycle and ladies' tricycle models built for American roads.
- The Gazette offers free 4x4 photographs of eighty different cycling celebrities, race starts, and team groups to any wheelman who sends in two new subscribers at fifty cents each.
- The Gazette documents how W. A. Rowe of Lynn won the world amateur bicycle championship in 1886, with photographs of him and the Columbia team offered to Gazette subscribers.
- D. Rogers and Co. reprint a prospectus extract for the Cunard Convertible Tandem, arguing that only this machine achieves true wheel-load balance in both its single and double riding configurations.
- S. T. Clark and Co. again advertise bicycles, tricycles, and tandems on easy payment plans, targeting clergymen, doctors, lawyers, and merchants who prefer instalment purchasing.
- Rev. Homer A. King's Springfield-designed lever bicycle is promoted with testimonials from riders who found it easier on hills and safer against headers than conventional crank-wheel machines.