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  • J. E. Alexander
    ...eptember 9th at San Jose he won second place in both the one mile and five mile scratch races. At Stockton September 16th with a twelve pounds heavier whee ...at it would spread out like a sail. In this way I floated along mile after mile, scarcely pedaling ten miles out of the entire fifty.
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  • THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call, 21 Sep 1895
    ==== The Bay City Wheelmen's Five-Mile Road Race To-Morrow. ==== ...the cyclers of the [[Young Men's Christian Association]] will hold a five-mile event from San Mateo to San Carlos, for which there are ten entries, who, w
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  • Victor A. Hancock
    The Pacific Road Club's 10-mile handicap road race took place yesterday around the San Leandro triangle bef ...ing. It will be better in a month or so. Plenty of walks up three and four mile hills. We used drags with success down all the long grades. The roads for t
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  • GOLDEN GATE PARK JOTS. - The San Francisco Call, 08 Apr 1895
    ...from the north drive just before reaching the track. It is a little over a mile long and at the west end joins the main drive that runs to the [[Ocean Beac
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  • Great Hundred-Mile Relay Race to Be Run To-Morrow - The San Francisco Call, 11 Apr 1896
    ==== Great Hundred-Mile Relay Race to Be Run To-Morrow. ==== The [[:Category:1896 annual 100-mile relay race|third annual 100-mile relay race]] of the [[California Associated Cycling Clubs]], starting here,
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  • Albert A. Bouton
    ...|Whiskers Bouton]] of the Oakland wheelmen made quite a showing in the two-mile safety handicap. He was running behind when the crowd began to yell "Go it,
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  • CYCLERS ARE AROUSED - San Francisco Chronicle, 01 Sep 1894
    The [[San Jose Road Club]] will hold its next five-mile race on Sunday, September 5th, being the second race of the series. [[Walte ...RT L. LONG]], HOLDER OF THE COAST RECORD FOR ONE-THIRD AND TWO-THIRDS OF A MILE.]]
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  • THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call, 08 Jun 1895
    ==== C. S. Wells to Try for the World's Five-Mile Road Record. ==== [[California Cycling Club]] - Mile club race at [[Bay City Wheelmen track at Central Park|Central Park]], 9:30
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  • THE WHEELMEN. - All Ready for the Great San Jose Meet on Friday and Saturday. - The San Francisco Call, 13 Apr 1895
    [[:Category:1895 annual 100-mile relay race|The great relay race of last Sunday]] has been run over again ev ...calities have from time to time held 100-mile relay races, and even [[1000-mile interstate relay races from Chicago to New York]].
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  • THE WHEELMEN. - San Francisco Call - October 26, 1895
    ...ered. [[Guy Frost]], the winner of the first of the Royals' series of five-mile road races, has been presented with a trophy in the shape of a handsome gol ...id clever work. The fact that one got under twenty-four minutes, six under twenty-five, six under twenty-six, seven under twenty-seven, four under twenty- eight,
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  • THE WHEELMEN - The San Francisco Call, 01 Jun 1895
    ...f the [[Reliance Club Wheelmen]] will go against the tandem record for one mile, class A, of 2:09, made by [[B. E. Clark]] and [[O. B. Smith]] of the [[Gar The following are the handicaps for the two-mile class A and the two-mile class B, the other two events being scratch races:
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  • WITH THE WHEELMEN. - San Francisco Chronicle, 08 Jun 1895
    The [[California Cycling Club]] will hold a five-mile [[handicap]] road race on Sunday, June 16th, over the [[San Mateo course]], The [[Golden Gate Cycling Club]] will hold its initial five-mile handicap road race on Sunday, June 30th over the [[San Mateo course]]. Mess
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  • AMONG THE WHEELMEN. - A Cycling Trip to Santa Cruz - San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jun 1895
    ...to hold on the Fourth a mile novice, one mile handicap, class A, and a one mile handicap, class B. Valuable prizes are offered for each event. ...esen]] of the [[California Cycling Club|Californias]] will try for the ten-mile Coast record to-morrow over the [[Haywards course]], and will be paced by s
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  • Stephen Horton Knapp, Jr.
    ...k of Tamalpais, an achievement they may well be proud of, as the last half mile (where the others left their wheels) is covered with brush and loose rocks. ...25 Aug 1890, Mon, Page 7 - WHEELMEN’S WHIRLS - Entries for the Twenty-five-mile Race. Trip to Tamalpais.]]
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  • THE SPEEDY CYCLERS. - Coast Records Sure to Be Lowered. - Eastern Cracks Now on the Road. - San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr 1894
    ...ovice, one-mile [[handicap]], two-mile handicap, one-fourth-mile dash, one mile juvenile (for boys under 16 years). These races are open to all amateurs un ...[spurt]], the speed of the local riders will increase anywhere from ten to twenty-five per cent.
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  • THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call, 22 Jun 1895
    ...ing in that vicinity awheel. Pescadero is sixty-three miles away, the last twenty-five miles being over the roughest kind of a hilly country, where walking was ge The Oakland Young Men's Christian Association Cycling Club held a five-mile road race last Saturday afternoon over the course from Fruitvale to San Lea
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  • AMONG THE WHEELMEN - San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Jun 1895
    ...ing. The pace will be set to accord with all in line. The distance is only twenty-five miles each way, and the roads are in excellent condition. A fine lunch has ...d Young Men's Christian Association Cycling Club]] held its postponed five-mile handicap road race last Saturday over the [[San Leandro triangle|San Leandr
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  • THE NATIONAL CIRCUIT RACES. - The San Francisco Examiner, 09 Nov 1895
    ..., while more will go down this morning to witness the contest for the five-mile championship, the first time on this Coast when [[class A]] and [[class B|B ...any entries for this race that the club will probably run trial heats at a mile and then the five miles for the final. The race will be tandem paced.
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  • Frank D. Elwell
    [[File:F. D. ELWELL, ONE MILE 2-48 1 2.jpg]] ...Club Compete. - Wed, Feb 24, 1886 - Page 3 - Oakland Tribune|1886/02/22 50-mile road race from Gilroy to Menlo Park]]
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  • The Wheel. - San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jun 1887
    ...ing Board of the [[League of American Wheelmen]] offered to locate the ten-mile National championship for 1887 in California, but it was declined, for the ...maller tents. This place is within easy reach of the bathhouses and is one mile nearer the race-track than league headquarters. A pennant bearing the club
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  • Theodore C. Dodge
    [[Frank Waller sets the 25-mile record, rides from Oakland to top of Mount Hamilton and back - June, 1891]]
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  • THE WHEELMEN. San Francisco Call, Volume 78, Number 15, 15 June 1895
    ...of a mile, scratch, class A; two-thirds of a mile, handicap, class A; one mile, handicap, class A. ...the same competitors, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13047382/ he won a mile handicap from sixty-five yards in 2:11 3-5]. As the season progresses he wi
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  • THE WHEELMEN. - J. E. Edwards Wants the World's Five-Mile Road Record. - The San Francisco Call, 18 May 1895
    === J. E. Edwards Wants the World's Five-Mile Road Record. === ===== San Jose Road Club - Five-mile roadrace. =====
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  • J. F. Hancock
    The Pacific Road Club's 10-mile handicap road race took place yesterday around the San Leandro triangle bef ...ing. It will be better in a month or so. Plenty of walks up three and four mile hills. We used drags with success down all the long grades. The roads for t
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  • Three-lap track at the Midwinter Fair
    ...engineers. The track for pedestrians will be three and a half laps to the mile. It will have a cinder surface and [[Three-lap track at the Midwinter Fair|
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  • Charles S. Wells
    ...race won by Wilbur Edwards. He also finished second to Edwards in the five-mile race. Great things are expected from Wells this year, as his improvement la ..." Osen|OSEN]] - [[Charles S. Wells|WELLS]]<br/>[[CYCLING - The Twenty-five Mile Road Race Will Be Run Next Sunday. - Elwell track Mechanics' Pavilion tourn
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  • BAY CITY WHEELMEN, Well-Known Athletes Who Travel Around on Wheels. - The San Francisco Examiner, Oct 14, 1888
    One-quarter of a mile, 37 2-5 seconds, [[F. R. Cook]]. <br/> One mile, 2:48 1/2, [[F. D. Elwell]]. <br/>
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  • BUZZING WHEELS. - The Alameda Bicycle and Athletic Club Meet. - The San Francisco Call, 31 May 1893
    ...ar the extra weight will wear the gold medal given to him as winner of the mile novice race, Otto is young yet, but evidently he is a coming man. ...crippled, so he could scarcely stand, he lowered the coast record for one mile. He is the pluckiest rider who ever mounted a safety, and had he not disreg
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  • Liberty Cycling Club Ladies' Annex
    ...eo, on the 18th to the park with the ladies' annex, and on the 25th a five-mile roadrace over the San Mateo course, the entries for which close Tuesday eve [[THE WHEELMEN. - San Jose Road Club's Five-Mile Road Race To-Morrow. - HE IS AN ENTHUSIAST. - Henry Martin Now Rides a Bike
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  • THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call, 28 Sep 1895
    ...ults of so many of them should materially aid the handicapper of [[the ten-mile event of the California Associated Cycling Clubs which will be held October ...ney derived from this source will be expended on prizes for the annual ten-mile road race to be held October 13, and therefore the theater party should be
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  • The Wheelmen - The San Francisco Call, 25 May 1895
    The [[California Cycling Club]] will hold the third of a series of one mile handicap Club races at [[Bay City Wheelmen track at Central Park|Central Pa ...San Mateo to witness [[J. E. Edwards']] attempt to lower the world's five-mile road record.
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  • The Wheelmen. - The San Francisco Call, 20 Jul 1895
    ...htaway stretch of road from San Mateo to San Carlos when competing in five-mile races]], and there will be four run off there to-morrow, by the [[Eintracht ...e road races on August 2, 16 and 30. Also a half-mile handicap and quarter-mile dash at [[Oakland Trotting Park]] Friday evening, July 26. A racing team of
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  • Oriental Cycling Club
    ...though only two in number, were very interesting. In the first run of one mile for safeties only there were nine entries. G. Alcayaga and P. Brown of the The second race was a half-mile dash for an ordinary and two safeties. J. Liebert, D. Marshall and T. C. Do
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  • Oakland Bicycle Club
    ...s, the wheelmen headed toward Alameda, where, on arriving, they halted for twenty-five minutes, and thence proceeded to the [[Neptune Gardens]], where lunch had b ...d at the corner of Fourteenth and Center streets, and has five laps to the mile]]. The [[Oakland wheelmen]] intend cutting down the record considerably, an
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  • Robert R. Russ
    ...bia League Wheelmen]] a few days ago, was full of incidents. The four "100 mile per day runners of the wheel" were [[W. B. Wegener]], [[M. D. Garratt]], [[ The quarter-mile on high wheels, though naturally not much a matter of speed, was highly int
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  • CHAT ABOUT THE CYCLE. - A Brief Sketch of the Garden City Cyclers. - Frank Waller Makes a New World's Record. - The Coming Century Run - Straight Spokes. - The San Francisco Call, Jun 13, 1892
    ...], who returned from Monterey just in time to accompany Waller on his last mile. ...e the united forces will move on to [[Hollister]], the terminus of the 100-mile run. The return will be made by train. The roads from this city to San Jose
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  • Oak Leaf Wheelmen
    ...some promising wheelmen in the club. C. C. Moore once made a quarter of a mile on a heavy track in less than forty seconds. The same wheelman once rode fr ...e the fastest in the state and here D. L. Burke broke the quarter and half mile records with apparent ease. Riverside and Los Angeles came along a little l
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  • THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call, 09 Nov 1895
    ...in another column. Among the events to be decided to-day will be the five-mile National championship. This may be competed in by both [[class A]] and [[cl The record of 1:02:20 for twenty-five miles on the road in competition, made by Calvin T. Paxson of the Parkside
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  • Frank Henry Kerrigan
    ...In December 1909, Kerrigan and his friends in the Olympic Club ran a four mile course capped by a mid-winter swim in the Pacific Ocean. He also belonged t
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  • Robert Assheton Smyth
    Next month the annual twenty-five mile road race of the California Associated Cycling Clubs is to be held, and alr
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  • WELLS WON FOR THE BAY CITYS. - For the Second Time This Club Gets the Relay Cup. 100-mile relay race - The San Francisco Call, 13 Apr 1896
    ...heelmen|BAY CITY WHEELMEN]], THE CLUB THAT WON [[:Category:1896 annual 100-mile relay race|THE GREAT RELAY OF '96]].<div style='text-align: center;'>[[C. S ...and won the trophy of [[:Category:1896 annual 100-mile relay race|the 100-mile relay bicycle race]] for the [[Bay City Club]] yesterday. The final struggl
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  • San Francisco Bicycle Club
    ...'clock, the bicycle cavalcade set out to return home, stopping at the half-mile track with the intention of trying a brush, but owing to its heavy conditio
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  • Chronological index of historical cycling articles in San Francisco Bay Area Bicycle Culture, Historical
    ...le-sports-thomas-stevens-25.html The Bicycle Sports. - Thomas Stevens - 25-mile road race - 22 Nov 1886, Mon The San Francisco Examiner] 1886/11/26 draft: STEEL STEEDS - A Twenty-five Mile Bicycle Race at San Leandro - Oakland Ramblers - San Francisco Chronicle, 2
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  • The Wheel. - San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Jul 1888
    ...earty recognition on the road, even though strangers. But in a thirty-five mile ride on a country road leading out of Washington I met a large number of wh
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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
    ..., the policeman who made the arrest ran after him, and at a seven or eight mile rate the bicycle would not have been easily overtaken.
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  • Acme Wheelmen
    ...Grant Bell, another speedy wheelman, holds the State championship for five-mile safeties. ...up to the time of the advent of Dana Thompson, was the Coast champion half-mile swimmer, doing his record in 15 minutes and 29 seconds. Thompson, who bids
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  • OLYMPIC CYCLISTS. Young Men Who Will Boom Wheeling. Some Reminiscences of the Sport. - Sat, Oct 14, 1893 - Page 10 - San Francisco Chronicle
    On the 29th of this month the Olympic Club wheelmen will contest a ten-mile handicap road race on the [[San Leandro triangle|San Leandro triangular cou ...together. However, we must be satisfied with the fact that he has ridden a mile and two miles faster, in actual races, than anyone else."
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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
    ...uncture which we could not locate and which necessitated a walk of about a mile to the next house where we could obtain a bucket of water. From there we we .... We trundled our machines some distance before before we could remount. A mile beyond this the road forked, and taking the one to the left we followed it
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  • THE WHEELMEN - The Camera Club Cyclists Will Tour Through Lake County - The San Francisco Call, 29 Jun 1895
    ...Upper Lake, 8 miles; to Saratoga, 3 miles; to Blue Lakes or Laurel Dell, 1 mile; lunch; to Ukiah and out to Vichy Springs, 23 miles, for the night; day's m ...Db5ETFpwk1D5D6 228 Thirteenth street]. To-morrow the club will hold a five-mile handicap road race over [[the San Mateo course]], starting early in the mor
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  • ON THE WHEEL. - Daily Alta California, 29 November 1885
    ...entleman has had a wheel in constant use for five years, and has spent but twenty-five cents for repairs during that time. If its joints are occasionally lubricat ...is machine and fracturing both wrists, but he bravely made the one hundred-mile trip with sprained wrists and a piece of wood tied on for a handle. The wor
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  • Howard Alexander
    ...uncture which we could not locate and which necessitated a walk of about a mile to the next house where we could obtain a bucket of water. From there we we .... We trundled our machines some distance before before we could remount. A mile beyond this the road forked, and taking the one to the left we followed it
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  • Frank Lee Hunter
    ...uncture which we could not locate and which necessitated a walk of about a mile to the next house where we could obtain a bucket of water. From there we we .... We trundled our machines some distance before before we could remount. A mile beyond this the road forked, and taking the one to the left we followed it
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  • WHAT THE BICYCLISTS WOULD LIKE TO DO IN THE PARK. - The San Francisco Examiner, 11 Sep 1894
    ...a little fast, but then you can show me very few horsemen who obey the ten-mile-an-hour law. Generally they go at a three-minute clip. Bicyclists should be
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  • AMONG THE WHEELMEN - Track to Be Used in the Tournament. - A Matter of Interest to Racers. - San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Jan 1895
    ...stay on the Coast, and may possibly ride as one of their team in the [[100-mile relay race from San Francisco to Oakland|Relay race]]. At the smoker last S ...feet. The straights will be 200 feet long, making in all nine laps to the mile.
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  • FIRST BIKE ON THE COAST. - The San Francisco Examiner, 04 Aug 1895
    To make a mile in three minutes was considered excellent time, and when [[Herman C. Eggers
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