The front page of the January 7th issue

Page 7 of the January-7th issue with articles about the construction and quality of bicycle frames and component parts.

Page 11 of the Jan-7 issue with some of Frank Patterson's sketches

January 7, 1942 page-12, the left facing page of a 2-page article about the Facile Safety with a photo of the Facile Bicycle Club of 1884. The Facile was invented by John Beale; his 1878 patent application number 332 describes the design and safety features.

January 7, 1942 page-13, the right facing page of a 2-page article about the Facile Safety with an illustration of an 1883 Facile with a rider standing aside. The Facile was invented by John Beale; his 1878 patent application number 332 describes the design and safety features.

January 7, 1942 issue, the back cover with an advertisement for Lucas illustrating their 1870's lamp for Ordinaries, the King Of The Road Hub Lamp and their current advanced model of generator set with headlight and tailight.

The front page of the second issue of 1942; the January 14th, Vol-CIII No. 2059 issue. During these years the front pages are devoted to 'OUR POINT OF VIEW' which includes articles about current cycling information and advocacy. This is page number A1 of this current issue, but page number 19 of the current 6-months. The pages were numbered starting from page-1 in the first issue of the year and continued the numbering system until the last page of the June issue of the year (in case of the year 1942 the final issue of June is the June 24, 1942 Vol-CIII No. 2682 issue and the last page is numbered 493. In addition there is one more 'last' page that is referred to as a 'Supplement' page upon which I found the 'STRANGE BUT TRUE NUMBER 2' article by Wheeler. This article is similar to Ripley's 'BELIEVE IT OR NOT' but is devoted exclusively to facts and information about bicycles and bicycling. Wheeler is actually Frank Gayton of Leicester, England. Somewhere in this collection there is a stack of STRANGE BUT TRUE articles that have been cut out of some publications.

This is page-24 (A6) of the January-14th issue. This is the weekly featured article entitled 'CLUBROOM GOSSIP' and contains a paragraph regarding the 'shoddy imitations' of bicycles and accessories that Japan was exporting to England since about 1932. It should be remembered that England and America was at war with Japan at this time. I can confirm that the majority of Japanese bicycles and parts/accessories that were exported to America in the early 1950's were of inferior quality. I later learned that the American buyers would take or send items to a Japanese company and ask 'HOW CHEAP CAN YOU MAKE THIS'? The company would design a similar appearing product but in order to satisfy the buyer's requirements of low price, would use inferior materials. When I first went to Japan to try to find factories that could produce high quality bicycles and related products, I learned that the Japanese desired to sell high quality products if the buyer would pay enough for the product to enable the quality materials to be used. It was in 1963 and the ensuing years that Japan started producing high quality parts for American Eagle (later changed to Nishiki) bicycles. Companies like Shimano, SunTour, DiaCompe, Sugino, Taihei, Araya, Sakae-Ringyo, Kyokuto, Mikashima, IRC and others, all cooperated with me because we were willing to pay a fair price for good quality products.

Page-35 (A19) of the January 14, 1942 issue containing The 1941 winners of various Time Trial events.

Page-25 (A7) of the January 14, 1942 issue which is an advertisement for Raleigh. This is a typical type of ad that appears throughout the hundreds of issues of 'CYCLING'. The ad mentions that the supply of Raleigh Cycles is limited, which was due to the shortage of components and raw materials because of the efforts of WW-II.

Page-34 (A18) of the January 14, 1942 issue. It is an article about the Byways Route (safer for bicycle travel) from London to Aylesbury and beyond. The sketch is by Frank Patterson of one of the points of interest along the route.

Page-26 (A8) of the January 14, 1942 issue. This pager has five sketches done by Frank Patterson; his art is wonderful! There are several books of his art in this collection.

Page-33 of the January 14, 1942 issue. A page that is typical in most issues of CYCLING which contains an assortment of articles; (1) Save paper because of teh war effort, (2) A disclaimer, 'The fact that goods made of raw materials in short supply owing to war conditions are advertised in this journal should not be taken as an indication that they are necessarily available for export', (3) A court case regarding a dog running into the front wheel causing the rider to fall wherein the judge ruled in favor of the dog owner, saying she had the right to have the dog on the road without a leash, and (4) several road sport programs.

Page-28 (A10) of the January 14, 1942 issue containing articles about racing in various cities including 'ROLLER RACING' in a Munition Factory. You can see an example of RACING ROLLERS in this collection under item number Rollers-002 in the category titled 'Bicycle Rollers (trainers)-Antique'.

Page-29 (A11) of the January 14, 1942 issue reporting on a court case where in a 63 year old cyclist was forced into a moving motorcar because of strong winds. The motorcar suffered some damage and the cyclist was in the hospital of 65 weeks from injuries. The judge ruled in favor of the motorist stating, 'He was also negligent in riding a bicycle that day under the prevailing conditions'. There are 11 additional articles on this page including an article about an upcoming Roller Racing event.

The last page of the January 14, 1942 issue, which is marked page-4 Cycling Supplement-i. In addition to the articles about cycling, there are advertisements for Bluemel Pumps and Bayliss Wiley Hubs. West Coast Cycle distributed these products to dealers in the mid and late 1950's. There was a company in New York that kept wearhouse inventory and my father purchased from them (Perry Bayliss Wiley USA, managed by Jules Gesang).