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• Harry Francis Terrill
  Is a brother of "Bob," and has been racing in California for several years past. When Harry first commenced riding he ...seldom loses out in securing a prize. His brother "Bob" does not engage in racing, at present, but as the season advances will in all...
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• Bay district race track
  [https://www.outsidelands.org/bay-district-track.php Bay District Racing Track]
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• THE BICYCLE SPEED TRACK - The Sacramento Bee, 07 Jan 1896
  ...speed [[:Category:Tracks|track]] made its report and submitted a plan of a racing track the estimated cost of which would be $8000. The intention is to form
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• Scorcher
  ...is is not meant to disparage his importance. Without him there would be no racing, and without contests of speed to stimulate the ambition of wheelmen even t
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• ANGRY COW AIDS LIVIO MAGGINI WIN BIKE RACE - San Jose Mercury-news, 19 August 1907
  A COW who evidently thought [[Livio Maggini]]'s gally colored racing suit had designs on the life of her newly born calf aided him in getting ac ...zing by the roadside with a calf spied Maggini's and Bryant's pink and red racing suits. She put down her horns, stuck her tail straight up in the air and ga
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• O. L. Pickard
  ...via San Jose. His record held for years. At about the height of 'ordinary' racing Bert Lund, unattached, entered the races held at the Oakland Trotting Park
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• Clint R. Coulter
  ...manufacturer who was backing him had him give up the long tour and follow racing the rest of the season. Coulter was quite successful, too, and at this mome ...1 1/2, inches, and weighs 185 pounds. He began riding a wheel in 1892, and racing on July 4th last.
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• L. W. Fox
  "Since then," Fox writes, "my racing experience has been the same as the average, winning probably a few more ra [[L. W. Fox|Louis Fox]] has had but two falls since he began racing, and in the first did not get a scratch. He has already won over $2,000 wor
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• James Searle
  [[THE CYCLING WORLD - OLD TIME RACING MEN. - San Francisco Chronicle, Sat, Jul 8, 1893]]
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• John Beckett
  ...est time in the club race last October]. He rides a [[Columbia]] and began racing when he [https://www.newspapers.com/article/san-francisco-chronicle-the-whe
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• ECHOES OF THE RELAY RACE. - The Victorious Garden Citys and Their Speedy Men. - MIDWINTER FAIR TRACK. - San Francisco Examiner, 14 Apr 1894
  ====== It Is In Poor shape and Thoroughly Unfit for Racing Purposes - Something About E. C. Bald, the Wheelman Who Has Broken Several ...s kept up throughout it. Mr. Smith has had considerable experience in road racing, otherwise the Garden City Cyclers might not have won.
  7 KB (1,302 words) - 18:35, 6 August 2023
• Bicycle Clubs and Organizations
  [https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/p/falcon-racing-team.html Falcon racing team]
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• Charles B. Wheaton
  ...ry bicycle, a most creditable performance. Fonda devoted himself to safety racing and was a good man in his day. Plummer was noted principally in the road ra [[THE CYCLING WORLD - OLD TIME RACING MEN. - San Francisco Chronicle, Sat, Jul 8, 1893]]
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• William A. Terrill
  ...rill of the Bay City Wheelmen is making a splendid showing on the National racing circuit. [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13047271/syracuse_mile_handicap_b ...y smaller man; always good-natured and smiling, a gentleman and a thorough racing man.
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• Frank Howlett
  [[WHIRLING WHEELS! - The Greatest Racing Meet Ever Held on the Coast. - Alameda Daily Argus - May 31, 1892]]
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• VOTARIES OF THE SILENT STEED. - Twelve San Francisco Lady Bikers Organize a Bloomer Club. - San Francisco Chronicle, 03 Aug 1895
  ...[[racing board]] has forbidden any of the class A men to go on the coming racing circuit, and as the matter now stands they are in a deplorable quandary.
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• William G. Davis
  [[THE CYCLING WORLD - OLD TIME RACING MEN. - San Francisco Chronicle, Sat, Jul 8, 1893]]
  1 KB (221 words) - 17:11, 8 April 2023
• Another Club for Boys Takes Up Wheeling - San Francisco Chronicle - December 17, 1905
  ...ad of the [[West City Wheelmen]], another club of boys will break into the racing game to-day. The new organization is known as the [[Golden City Wheelmen]], ...his place has been filled by [[John T. Kelly]]. The latter is an old-time racing man, and has long been a member of the club. He intends to hold numerous ra
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• Jack Dermody
  [[CYCLE RACING MEN ON OREGON PATHS. - Otto Ziegler and Other Flyers to Be Seen in Competit ...[[W. Chaboya]]. All these youngsters have had previous experience in road racing. Many are known as being among the fastest amateurs on this coast.
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• Wheeling. - The Columbia-square Wheelmen have organized - The San Francisco Examiner, 16 Apr 1888
  ...ized with twenty-four charter members. It is intent on placing some of its racing men on the track to compete in the [[Olympic Club]] races in May.
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