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• Santa Rosa Wheelmen
  The [[Santa Rosa wheelmen]] met on Tuesday night and organized a bicycle club. Fifteen or twenty persons were ...heelmen, Organized April 27, 1882, Santa Rosa, Cal.” There is also printed on the badge a picture of a bicycle running at full speed propelled by the clu
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• THE WHEEL. - A New Club-House for the San Franciscos. - The San Francisco Call, Jun 8, 1890
  ...the showing they made against same of the older racers in the [[brushes]] on the way to Hollister, are going to see what they can do at [[San Jose]], an ...rs.com/clip/71333039/the-san-francisco-bicycle-clubinformal/ its new house on O'Farrell street], between Scott and Steiner. The new home is a two-story f
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• Ralph M. Thompson
  ...wiki/Half_Moon_Bay,_California#History Spanishtown] road as far as Wylie's on the summit, from where they rode along the ridge of the mountains to [https ...p-jr-trip/ W. M. Meeker & S. H. Knapp Jr. trip Spanishtown road to Wylie's on the summit 27 May 1889, Mon San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, Califor
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• THE WHEEL. - Bay City Wheelmen's picnic run to Lake Honda - The San Francisco Call, Apr 20, 1890
  ...5 o'clock. After passing Belmont Lee was compelled to return. Schuler kept on, however, with Vidy, who joined at Belmont, and reached the starting point ...lub|San Francisco club]], will be sorry for the affliction that befell him on Friday in the loss of his father, who was killed at his home in Sonoma Coun
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• George Fuller
  [[FLYING WHEELS AROUND CURVES. - OPENING NIGHT OF THE TOURNAMENT AT THE MECHANICS PAVILION .... San Francisco Call, Volume 78, Number 15, 15 June 1895|FULLER AND LEMMON ON A TANDEM.]]]]
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• Highland Park Wheelmen
  ...embers of the [[Bay City Wheelmen]] and five of the [[Highland Club]] boys on February 22d, the course being from Gilroy to Menlo Park. The prize is a cl ...[[Highland Park Wheelmen|Highland Park Club]], which had made the run down on the other side of the bay. The night was passed at San Jose.
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• San Jose Merchants as Cyclists - San Jose Mercury-news, Volume LXXIV, Number 70, 10 March 1908
  ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edenvale,_San_Jose Edenvale] youth mounted on a machine similar to no other ever seen in [[San Jose]] before that time ro ...e. Yes, it is called a safety. Yes, I can go just as fast with it as I can on the [[high bicycle]]," etc.
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• R. W. Turner
  ...out brothers belong the honor of being the first to make the Yosemite trip on bicycles. [[ON THE WHEEL. - Daily Alta California, 29 November 1885]]
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• VOTARIES OF THE SILENT STEED. - Twelve San Francisco Lady Bikers Organize a Bloomer Club. - San Francisco Chronicle, 03 Aug 1895
  ...he 8 A. M. boat to [[Sausalito]], taking train to San Anselmo and resuming wheels to destination. ...will hold a [[race::five-mile handicap road race over the San Mateo course on Sunday, August 25th]].
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• George Loring Cunningham
  ...gentleman named [[G. L. Cunningham]], rode from this city to [[San Jose]] on an English bicycle. The time made was twelve hours and forty-five minutes. ...San Francisco]], left that place Saturday morning at 6:30 o'clock, mounted on an English bicycle, and arrived at the [https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/bui
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• C. A. Howard
  [[BAY CITY WHEELMEN, Well-Known Athletes Who Travel Around on Wheels. - The San Francisco Examiner, Oct 14, 1888]] ...y week. Leaving San Mateo they took the Spanishtown road as far as Wylie's on the summit, from where they rode along the ridge of the mountains to Pelarc
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• Bay City Wheelmen track at Central Park
  ...y will make it the fastest four-lap track in the State. Work will commence on it May 1. ...those who have ridden on it state that the Bay Citys have struck the nail on the head, and that at the July meeting coast records are bound to go under.
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• Robert Diefenbacher
  ...cher|Dieffenbacher]] on the ninth relay. In crossing the bridges which lay on his course he punctured his tires in ten places with the slivers. He had to ...st considerable time. He gave [[Waibel]] a goood lead and the clever rider on the final relay sprinted down the course at a 26:18 clip, which is the reco
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• THE PLEA OF THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Examiner, 12 Sep 1894
  ...mic]. Some of the same agitations between classes and castes, between four wheels and two are evident in these two 1894 articles as are evident now.'' ...eelmen Will Consider What Steps Should Be Taken to Remove the Restrictions on Bicycles - Result of The Agitation in New York - A Wheelman's suggestions.
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• George F. Day
  ...brothers belong the honor of being the first to make the [[Yosemite]] trip on bicycles. [[ON THE WHEEL. - Daily Alta California, 29 November 1885]]
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• THE WHEELMEN. - Oakland Tribune, 08 Nov 1886
  ...A. W. members. Only men over eighteen years of age who own and ride their wheels are wanted. Yesterday being an unusually pleasant day, the number of wheelmen out on the road was very large. Among the number were a host of new riders who wer
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• THE WHEEL. - San Francisco Call, 01 Jun 1890
  ...o the Board of Supervisors complaining of the action of wheelmen in riding on the sidewalks instead of in the streets. ...ot be induced to abandon it, and the actions of these few bring opprobrium on wheelmen as a class.
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• Antonio J. Delmas
  ...k:/61903/1:1:H981-XKW2 Toney Jule Delmas married Harriet Lindabell Boucher on 30 Oct 1904] ...the Olympic Club Wheelmen. Behind them came others, old but on more modern wheels. Judge Frank H. Kerrigan, James W. Mullen, Wilbur Knapp, [[Antonio J. Delma
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• Harry A. Greene
  .../# Charles Crocker], who capitulated to this bold proceeding and signed it on the spot. During the first four years of the San Francisco Club's existence ...-put-today-s-bike-hipsters-to-shame-36864ee5e02 San Francisco Bicycle Club on San Leandro Road between San Leandro and Milpitas; H.A. Greene, Captain. Un
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• Stanley G. Scovern
  ...umb left, and he was confined to a milk diet. Some good scorching was done on the return trip. Scovern and Twitchell made the best time. These boys promi [[San Francisco Call, Volume 73, Number 85, 23 February 1893 - RACING ON WHEELS - A Pacific Coast Record Broken.]]
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