Cycle history research online: Serial publications
Lists some of the best bets for researching cycle history in digital libraries, archives and more.
Selected early bicycle periodicals freely available online
- Bearings: the cycle authority of America
- Bicycling world and motorcycle review
- The Cycle
- Cycle age and trade review
- Cyclist and wheel world annual
- Good roads
- L.A.W. bulletin
- L.A.W. magazine
- Motorcycle Illustrated
- Official bulletin and scrap book of the League of American Wheelmen
- Outing
- Outing and the wheelman
- Pneumatic: a progressive monthly paper for cyclists
- Referee & cycling trade journal
- The Wheel
- Wheel and cycling trade review
- Wheel world: a bicycling and tricycling illustrated monthly magazine of sport
- Wheelman
More early cycling periodicals
- 19th century cycling periodicals, compiled by John L. Weiss'Mr. Weiss' bibliography includes links out to HathiTrust, Internet Archive, the Wisconsin Historical Society and other digital libraries.
- 20th century cycling periodicals, compiled by John L. WeissPublications newer than 95 years may still have an active copyright, but others are available online. If you do not find a publication open online for full view, check back. Works go into the public domain if the copyright holder did not file to renew. Also, libraries are continually digitizing new material and more titles turn up in the digital libraries all the time.
