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  • Good Roads Convention
    {{Special:Whatlinkshere/Good Roads Convention}} [[Category:Good Roads]]
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  • Good Roads magazine
    Good Roads was an American magazine founded by the League of American Wheelmen, promot ...e found for this serial. Good Roads ended in 1931, when it was absorbed by Roads and Streets.
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  • Good roads
    #REDIRECT [[:Category:Good Roads]]
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  • San Pablo avenue
    [[Category:roads]]
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  • G. C. Turner
    ...ble trip in [[Lake county]]. Starting from Petaluma they found fairly good roads to Cloverdale. The trip from Cloverdale was through picturesque country, th ...rt was made for Cloverdale, traveling through a fine country and over good roads. From Cloverdale to the Geysers was a climb up a steep grade and both wheel
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  • MANY MILES ON WHEEL. - An Acme Man Makes a Trip to San Diego. - Oakland Tribune, 02 May 1894
    ...pedia.org/wiki/Jolon,_California Jolon] at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The roads were very fine on this day's run, and the seven-mile [[coast]] into Jolon w ...a], a distance of thirty miles, arriving in time to get a cold supper. The roads were very heavy with sand and dust.
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  • THE WHEELMEN. - Oakland Tribune, 03 Oct 1888
    ...way of Alameda. A pleasant day was spent by the riders and they report the roads in good condition. ...will meet at Fourteenth street and San Pablo avenue at 10 o'clock. As the roads are in good condition a pleasant trip is anticipated.
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  • Walter C. Howe
    ...yal entertainers. The tourists have experienced much bad weather and muddy roads but are enjoying excellent health.
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  • San Jose Mercury-news, Volume XXXVII, Number 132, 12 May 1890
    ...sport is more healthful and refreshing than a tour of the valley over good roads on a speeding bicycle? San Jose is well represented with wheelmen, and on h ...eelmen will make the run. The managers of the affair have chosen excellent roads, which will add largely to the comfort of the cyclists. The orders are to l
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  • Otto Tum Suden
    ...can't see why they should be discriminated against in the use of the Park roads, and the doling out of little favors by the Park Commissioners no longer sa [[RIGHTS OF THE HORSE AND THE BICYCLE ON PARK ROADS. - The San Francisco Examiner, 10 Sep 1894]]
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  • Alfred Plaisted Swain
    ...e, arriving at the little town of Jolon at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The roads were very fine on this day's run, and the seven-mile coast into Jolon will ...ta, a distance of thirty miles, arriving in time to get a cold supper. The roads were very heavy with sand and dust.
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  • San Bruno road
    [[Category:roads]]
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  • BIKES, TRIKES, AND SAFETIES. - Oakland Tribune, 17 Oct 1888
    ...He is not pleased with the roads, as he says they do not compare with the roads at Denver. ...took a trip to Sunol last Sunday by way of Mission pass. They report good roads except for a couple of miles between Haywards and Niles, which is fearfully
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  • Fred Davis
    ...members will ride a century around the bay, leaving here at 4:30 A. M. The roads should be in excellent condition for the trip. ...this club has just returned from his Lake County trip, and pronounces the roads in very good condition and the trip a very enjoyable one. Captain Davis is
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  • J. W. Mullen
    ...r. Morris started back awheel. He had to do so much walking over the hilly roads, however, that his feet became badly blistered, and altogether it was a rat
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  • A Bicycle Feat. - T. Stevens wager - San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Apr 1884
    ...w York, but thinks it pure speculation, depending more on the weather, the roads and luck in general than a man's capacity for speed. He has an understandin
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  • Mission road
    [[Category:roads]]
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  • The Wheelmen. - The San Francisco Examiner, 22 Aug 1887
    ...ich was offset by the condition of the roads which were as near perfect as roads in this country ever become.
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  • A GREAT RIDE. - Oakland Tribune, 27 Jan 1892
    ...t dismounting from their machines. The distance covered was 101 miles. The roads were in excellent condition, with the exception of the first ten miles, whi
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  • BICYCLE EXCURSION. - Sonoma Democrat, 14 July 1894
    ...inkled nearer to San Jose, but our road material is better and so will our roads be when they are properly taken care of. We found very few orchards on our ...through the fruit district, which is mostly all in one direction. All the roads are well kept and sprinkled and lined on both sides with splendid-looking o
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  • THE WHEELMEN. - The Rise and Fall of the Ariel Bicycle Club. - Oakland Tribune, 18 Apr 1888
    ...as hardly sufficient to accommodate the youths seeking honors on the dusty roads. So a suite of rooms on [https://goo.gl/maps/G4VvPYKpPLTfpC179 Eighth stree ...nt hills and Lake Merritt, riding in all about sixteen miles over mountain roads.
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  • SAN JOSE'S PIONEERS OF THE BICYCLE - San Jose Mercury-news, Volume LXXIV, Number 75, 15 March 1908
    ...oday never had more trouble with unsophisticated horses on narrow mountain roads than did Mr. Young on this trip.
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  • The Bicycle. - The San Francisco Examiner, 28 Mar 1887
    ...the year to ride in the country, before the warm weather comes on and the roads begin to get cut up and dusty by heavy teaming.
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  • Scorcher
    [[Unfrequented Bicycle Roads in the Vicinity of San Francisco - The San Francisco Call, 18 Apr 1897]]
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  • San Jose road
    [[Category:roads]]
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  • BICYCLING. - Run of the Bay City Wheelmen and Other Speedy Clubs. - 22 Feb 1886, Mon The San Francisco Examiner
    ...Cook]], started on the run to [[San Jose]]. The day was beautiful and the roads in excellent condition. No fast time was attempted, in order to allow even ...Haslett|Haslett]] of Alameda rode to San Jose last Sunday. He reports the roads below Haywards as being very rocky.
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  • Bicycle Notes. - The San Francisco Call - Jun 1, 1901
    ...ntries, prizes and officials will remain the same. It is expected that the roads will be in much better condition on this date than they were just prior to
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  • BICYCLE RUN. - A GOOD RECORD. - Oakland Tribune, 12 Oct 1885
    .... Magill, Jr.]], and [[W. W. Haralson]] yesterday, on a trip over mountain roads. "D" signifies departure and "ar" arrival:
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  • With the Wheelmen. - San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan 1891
    ...report that the roads are in fine condition, especially the Alameda county roads. The [[Bay City]] Race Committee is working hard trying to have a series of ...nd the others taking the road to Cupertino. The ride was enjoyable and the roads never better than at present.
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  • Coast
    ...e, arriving at the little town of Jolon at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The roads were very fine on this day's run, and the seven-mile [[coast]] into Jolon w ...four miles you wind slowly down the side of the mountain over hard, smooth roads.
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  • READY FOR THE BIG ROAD RACE - The San Francisco Call - Jun 8, 1901
    ...Evans]] of the [[Reliance Club]] also attended as guests of the club. The roads were in splendid condition.
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  • Frank M. Byrne
    ...han the present Coast record. With a systematic course of training and the roads in good condition, young Byrne will be able to lower this time materiality. ...f holding a try-out to select a suitable team for the relay as soon as the roads will permit of riding. At present it is expected that the team will be made
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  • Harry A. Greene
    ...cisco Club, headed by the indefatigable Harry Greene, the broker, the Park roads have been made available to wheelmen, while in Oakland a nonsensical street ...an experience, for he undertook to make a solitary run to Belmont when the roads were muddy, and took a header into a mud-puddle by the roadside, losing his
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  • THE BICYCLE IN 1993. - Akron Daily Democrat, Akron, Ohio 26 May 1893
    ...smooth, the outer edge of all curves being raised as on a race track. The roads will be kept clean, as by that time the horse will be found only in zoologi
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  • B. H. Patrick
    ...the year to ride in the country, before the warm weather comes on and the roads begin to get cut up and dusty by heavy teaming. ...teamer. Mr. Welch will continue to Los Angeles. The late rain will put the roads in fine condition for touring.
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  • J. W. Coffroth
    ...are great, and through Salinas Valley the wind fairly blows one along. The roads are as fine as in the park; we can make fifteen-eighteen miles an hour easi ...are great, and through Salinas Valley the wind fairly blows one along. The roads are as fine as in the park; we can make fifteen-eighteen miles an hour easi
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  • Ernest C. Barley
    ...f holding a try-out to select a suitable team for the relay as soon as the roads will permit of riding. At present it is expected that the team will be made
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  • W. H. Stinson
    ...are great, and through Salinas Valley the wind fairly blows one along. The roads are as fine as in the park; we can make fifteen-eighteen miles an hour easi ...are great, and through Salinas Valley the wind fairly blows one along. The roads are as fine as in the park; we can make fifteen-eighteen miles an hour easi
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  • H. W. Spalding
    ...ave just returned from a week's trip through the Santa Cruz mountains. The roads they report a trifle dusty, but nevertheless a most enjoyable trip was had.
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  • Charles Dietle
    ...rty of unattached wheelmen, rode to Camp Taylor yesterday. They report the roads very fair. There were eighteen bicycles on the boat. ...ld a club run to Redwood City yesterday, leaving here at 8:30 o'clock. The roads all the way were at their best. Those on the run were: Captain Thomas H. Do
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  • ALL AROUND NOTES. - Oakland Tribune, 04 Apr 1887
    As the roads are now in a rather dusty condition, a slight shower of rain would make a v
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  • FOR GOOD WHEELING. - The San Francisco Call, 24 Oct 1895
    [[Category:Good Roads]]
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  • Gus Mayer
    ...a delightful picturesque ride to San Mateo by way of Crystal Springs. The roads were quite rough, but nevertheless the riders managed to pull through after
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  • Cyclists of San Jose
    ...o be plenty of room in San Jose for two clubs. Its perfectly level, smooth roads certainly offer every inducement for a man to become a "bicycle rider."
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  • Raisin City Cyclers
    Committee on [[good roads]] - [[James Porteous]], [[George C. Roeding]], Dr. [[T. M. Hayden]], [[Geor
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  • WHEELMEN'S INTERESTS - The San Francisco Call, 19 Jun 1895
    ...de railroad ties for miles. It being the rainy reason in the northwest the roads as a rule were very muddy, and altogether the trip through Washington to Po ...ne. Altogether they rode 1100 miles, in all sorts of weather and over poor roads. Howe has the touring fever, however, and says he will soon be off on anoth
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  • 'Cyclistic. - Founding of Bay City Wheelmen - San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Sep 1884
    They must bare some crooked roads in Australia. It is reported from that far-off land that a cyclist riding r
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  • The Bicycle. - The San Francisco Examiner, 11 Apr 1887
    ...ly favorable for the sport. Now that the lovely spring days have come, the roads will be alive with wheelmen. Many bicyclists contemplate making extended to ...teamer. Mr. Welch will continue to Los Angeles. The late rain will put the roads in fine condition for touring.
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  • A. J. Storey
    ...ld a club run to Redwood City yesterday, leaving here at 8:30 o'clock. The roads all the way were at their best. Those on the run were: Captain Thomas H. Do ...rty of unattached wheelmen, rode to Camp Taylor yesterday. They report the roads very fair. There were eighteen bicycles on the boat.
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  • Capital City Wheelmen
    ...f Road Building,” which will deal with location, drainage and surfacing of roads. ...reau-o/ Capital City Wheelmen meet with Bureau of Highways to discuss good roads 13 Mar 1896, Fri The Record-Union (Sacramento, California) Newspapers.com]
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  • J. B. Carey
    ...ry to walk a good portion of the way, the mud being so deep and heavy. The roads from Niles to San Jose, although very soft, were not so bad as to prevent r
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  • ROAD RECORD TRIAL. - To Be Made by Charles M. Smith of the Garden City Cyclers. - San Jose Mercury-news, 16 October 1896
    Many teams were encountered and the roads were wet in several places from the sprinkling carts, so the time was neces
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  • Joseph G. Cox
    ...ld a club run to Redwood City yesterday, leaving here at 8:30 o'еlock. The roads all the way were at their best. Those on the run were: Captain Thomas H. Do
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  • The Wheelmen. - San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 1891
    ...nattached [[wheelmen]], rode to [[Camp Taylor]] yesterday. They report the roads very fair. There were eighteen bicycles on the boat. ...[Cliff House]] for breakfast the temptation to enjoy the excellence of the roads in the vicinity of San Jose was too much for [[Thomas S. Cobden|Cobden]], t
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  • With the Wheelmen. - San Francisco Chronicle, 02 Feb 1891
    ...ying out of many projected rides for yesterday, but will serve to keep the roads in splendid condition for the [[road race of the Bay City Wheelmen next Sun
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  • National Road Club
    ...cisco Examiner - 22 May 1895|the wheelmen's great parade in behalf of good roads and better streets]]. The club starts out with twenty names on the membersh
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  • THE NATIONAL CIRCUIT RACES. - The San Francisco Examiner, 09 Nov 1895
    Its maps show all the roads, their condition, character, and all matters relating to them which would b ...ble trip in [[Lake county]]. Starting from Petaluma they found fairly good roads to Cloverdale. The trip from Cloverdale was through picturesque country, th
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  • RIGHTS OF THE HORSE AND THE BICYCLE ON PARK ROADS. - The San Francisco Examiner, 10 Sep 1894
    === RIGHTS OF THE HORSE AND THE BICYCLE ON PARK ROADS. === The bicyclists, in addition to going into politics on behalf of [[good roads]], are taking up the local end of the already much-mooted question of wheth
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  • J. Catanich
    ...f holding a try-out to select a suitable team for the relay as soon as the roads will permit of riding. At present it is expected that the team will be made
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  • Wheel. - The San Francisco Examiner, 28 Nov 1887
    ...eason of the year there has been rain enough to put all the Alameda county roads in good order.
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  • WHEEL WHIRLS. - Oakland Tribune - August 13, 1890
    All the country roads are in poor condition at present, and the sooner a little rain falls the be
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  • Lewis Sears
    .... to visit his parents. He will take his wheel with him and enjoy the fine roads and scenery to be found about Victoria.
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  • The Wheel. - San Francisco Examiner, 21 Mar 1887
    ...f Oakland has returned from a tour through the Salinas valley. He says the roads are the best in the State, and as there is always a wind blowing south the
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  • LONG RIDE ON BIKES. - Women and Children Who Rode All the Way on Their Wheels to Santa Barbara. - The San Francisco Call, 03 Jul 1895
    "The roads were in many places pretty steep, and on account of the ladies we were forc
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  • Ariel Bicycle Club
    ...as hardly sufficient to accommodate the youths seeking honors on the dusty roads. So a suite of rooms on Eighth street and Broadway, in the Shattuck block,
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  • R. W. Turner
    ...ble trip in [[Lake county]]. Starting from Petaluma they found fairly good roads to Cloverdale. The trip from Cloverdale was through picturesque country, th ...rt was made for Cloverdale, traveling through a fine country and over good roads. From Cloverdale to the Geysers was a climb up a steep grade and both wheel
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  • Pacific Road Club
    ...requently seen grouped in club rooms or in single suits speeding along the roads around the bay. A beautiful badge, consisting of a front view of a bicycle ...requently seen grouped in club rooms or in single suits speeding along the roads around the bay. A beautiful badge, consisting of a front view of a bicycle
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  • THE BICYCLISTS ALL ACQUITTED. - Were Arrested by Patrolmen Who Misunderstood the Law. - EINTRACHT ELECTION. - The San Francisco Call, 07 Feb 1896
    General [[S. W. Backus]] was appointed a delegate to the [[good roads convention]], to be held in the rooms of the [[Bay City Wheelmen]] next Thu .... Information will be gladly furnished league members regarding routes and roads on application to the board.
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  • Charles W. Conger
    ...ed here to-day. They have followed the railroad track most of the way, the roads being very muddy, They have been on the way seven days, and will stop a wee
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  • Flume House
    SKID ROADS ...skid roads running from the mill site to the virgin forest and over these roads were hauled the logs to the mill pond. The road was like the rocky road to
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  • J. E. Alexander
    ...fornia Kings City], a straightaway stretch of fifty miles, over hard adobe roads, the winds blow a regular hurricane at your back. Sandclouds laden with peb ...you would never have thought we had been traveling all day over hot, dusty roads. It was late in the morning when we left San Luis Obispo. We took a longer,
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  • THE WHEELMEN. San Francisco Call, Volume 78, Number 15, 15 June 1895
    ...salia is eighty-one miles, making their round trip 162 miles over ordinary roads. ...are great, and through Salinas Valley the wind fairly blows one along. The roads are as fine as in the park; we can make fifteen-eighteen miles an hour easi
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  • The Wheelmen. - San Francisco Chronicle, 01 Jun 1891
    ...rained early in the morning, but notwithstanding the bad condition of the roads some 200 wheelmen met, and at about 10:45 o'clock the first start was made. ...rancisco, because with it one can ride down the iron slot bar of the cable roads without bob-bobbing around as the wheelmen are now compelled to.
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  • FROM FRISCO TO SAN DIEGO - Oscar Osen of San Jose Does It Inside of Four Days - The San Francisco Examiner, 26 May 1894
    ...and nearly fifteen stops for meals, and most of the 641 miles over strange roads, the record is indeed wonderful. ...ood condition otherwise and made the trip much better than I expected. The roads from San Luis Obispo south I found in horrible condition, with much sand to
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  • WHEELING SOUTH. - Oakland Tribune. 07 May 1887
    ...ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arroyo_Grande,_California Arroyo Grande]. The roads in this vicinity were fairly good, but the climb over the San Luis Obispo m
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  • Oscar Osen
    ...and nearly fifteen stops for meals, and most of the 641 miles over strange roads, the record is indeed wonderful. ...ood condition otherwise and made the trip much better than I expected. The roads from San Luis Obispo south I found in horrible condition, with much sand to
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  • ANGRY COW AIDS LIVIO MAGGINI WIN BIKE RACE - San Jose Mercury-news, 19 August 1907
    ...ive miles was 13:30 - very fast considering the very poor condition of the roads.
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  • The Wheelmen. - San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Sep 1891
    ...ld a club run to Redwood City yesterday, leaving here at 8:30 o'clock. The roads all the way were at their best. Those on the run were: Captain [[Thomas H.
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  • C. A. Howard
    ...rty of unattached wheelmen, rode to Camp Taylor yesterday. They report the roads very fair. There were eighteen bicycles on the boat.
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  • Unfrequented Bicycle Roads in the Vicinity of San Francisco - The San Francisco Call, 18 Apr 1897
    === Unfrequented Bicycle Roads in the Vicinity of San Francisco === ...d having made several fruitless efforts to strike out in search of ridable roads they have abandoned the quest. Travel over the beaten paths becomes monoton
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  • Victor A. Hancock
    ...Wheelmen is preparing to add the maps of Humboldt, Lake and Eureka county roads to the league road book]. [[Victor A. Hancock]] departed last Wednesday to ...four mile hills. We used drags with success down all the long grades. The roads for the last twenty-eight miles are pretty good.
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  • Percy Edward Haslett
    ...Haslett|Haslett]] of Alameda rode to San Jose last Sunday. He reports the roads below Haywards as being very rocky.
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  • John F. Burke
    ...arge attendance on this run. The boys have been cooped up so long by muddy roads that they will be glad of a chance to once more resume their favorite sport
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  • THE PLEA OF THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Examiner, 12 Sep 1894
    ...he preceding days' articles, [[RIGHTS OF THE HORSE AND THE BICYCLE ON PARK ROADS. - The San Francisco Examiner, 10 Sep 1894]] and [[WHAT THE BICYCLISTS WOUL ...auties of the spot? Moreover, by shutting out cyclists from the use of the roads surrounding the lake it compels them to make a long circuit around the base
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  • City's Businessmen as Wheelmen - San Jose Mercury-news, Volume LXXIV, Number 73, 13 March 1908
    ...ake were covered in twenty-one minutes and a quick trip was made over good roads into Truckee, where a crowd of trainmen had assembled, having been notified ...e State line, rode through Verdi and then dashed over eleven miles of good roads into Reno, stretching their legs at the hotel at 3:30 o'clock. Cheers were
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  • A Few Hints - San Jose weekly Mercury, Volume XVI, Number 46, 8 April 1869
    ...ntirely in cities, and but very few have given them a trial on our country roads, though there is no longer any doubt of their utility ''[https://translate.
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  • The Wheel. - San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Jul 1888
    ...eelmen, at least the sort of fraternity that one finds out West, where the roads and streets are comparatively new. Each wheelman seemed to go along the str "In other cities I have found considerable nodding to each other on the roads, not so much on the streets, perhaps, but good, hearty recognition on the r
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  • THE WHEEL. - Bay City Wheelmen's picnic run to Lake Honda - The San Francisco Call, Apr 20, 1890
    ...ccess. There were about seventy riders, an unusually large attendance. The roads were in good shape, and as the pace was not too hot for the newer men, ever
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  • CYCLERS IN TRAINING - San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 1895
    ...] at its last meeting discussed the matter of "[[:Category:Good_Roads|good roads]]." It is ready to join in any proposed plan for improvement. This club wil ...heelmen]] is preparing to add the maps of Humboldt, Lake and Eureka county roads to the league [[:Category:road book]]. [[Victor A. Hancock]] departed last
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  • THE WHEEL. - San Francisco Call, 01 Jun 1890
    ...on-popularity of wheeling is probably the extremely dusty condition of the roads in summer, which allows the rider no place excepting the streets in the cen
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  • Great Hundred-Mile Relay Race to Be Run To-Morrow - The San Francisco Call, 11 Apr 1896
    ...first twenty miles out of this City; but the race would be run off if the roads were knee-deep in mud just the same, and at this time of the year they are ...ssible, together with information as to distances and the character of the roads to be traversed.
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  • Thomas H. B. Varney
    ...the wheel is thus rendered the easiest riding one in existence over rough roads. Instead of the force of a jolt falling on the whole machine and the rider,
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  • The Wheel. - San Francisco Chronicle, 30 May 1887
    [[Category:Good Roads]]
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  • TOUR ON THE WHEEL. - Pleasurable and Tiresome Experiences Wading Through Sand and Tide. - Graphic Narrative of a Cycling Trip to Southern California. - San Francisco Chronicle, 08 Sep 1894
    ...ucket of water. From there we went on to Carpenteria. [sic] over excellent roads, principally down grade. Shortly after leaving Carpenteria we struck the be ...fornia Kings City], a straightaway stretch of fifty miles, over hard adobe roads, the winds blow a regular hurricane at your back. Sandclouds laden with peb
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  • AMONG THE WHEELMEN - San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Jun 1895
    ...with all in line. The distance is only twenty-five miles each way, and the roads are in excellent condition. A fine lunch has been prepared at the grove, an ...now numbers thirty. Secretary [[F. D. Gordon]] states that at present the roads in that section of the country are in fair condition, but the hauling of gr
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  • The Wheelmen. - San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Mar 1890
    ...is within easy wheeling distance from San Francisco and Oakland, with good roads from both places. A number of the State championship races for this year wi
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  • MANY EVENTS FOR WHEELMEN - San Francisco Chronicle - July 31, 1904
    ...ers of the [[California Cycling Club]] will make the run this morning. The roads in this vicinity are said to be in the best of condition. Other members of
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  • FIRST BIKE ON THE COAST. - The San Francisco Examiner, 04 Aug 1895
    The roads in those days were in a most execrable condition. The very best pavement in ...d been granted permission to ride on their wheels, on certain days, hours, roads, designating distances with exact limits and limiting the rate of speed, wi
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  • L. H. Cox
    ...a delightful picturesque ride to San Mateo by way of Crystal Springs. The roads were quite rough, but nevertheless the riders managed to pull through after
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  • WHAT THE BICYCLISTS WOULD LIKE TO DO IN THE PARK. - The San Francisco Examiner, 11 Sep 1894
    ...the preceding day's article, [[RIGHTS OF THE HORSE AND THE BICYCLE ON PARK ROADS. - The San Francisco Examiner, 10 Sep 1894]], which this article references ...he merits of the controversy between the bicycles and horsemen who use the roads of [[Golden Gate Park]]. It was a holiday and the sun was shining pleasantl
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