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• Great Hundred-Mile Relay Race to Be Run To-Morrow - The San Francisco Call, 11 Apr 1896
  ...Coronado,_California Coronado] waiting for favorable conditions to try for records. In a letter to the writer recently [https://centerlinerule.blogspot.com/20 ...w"] will be able to carry the men fast enough, and such being the case the records will truly be remarkable ones.
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• Alameda Cycle Park track
  ...ark track|the new track]] it would be possible to break all previous coast records, as its finishing surface, or skin, as the experts call it, is a new depart ...l surprises, and were also enabled to record the lowering of several coast records. The track was in excellent condition, but the weather was not up to the us
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• Alfred Griffiths
  [[THE SPEEDY CYCLERS. - Coast Records Sure to Be Lowered. - Eastern Cracks Now on the Road. - San Francisco Chron [[RECORDS IN DANGER. - The Big Wheelmen's Meet To-Day. - San Francisco Chronicle, 28
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• BICYCLING. - The San Francisco Call, 24 Jun 1890
  ...ampionships of the State. The meeting provided excellent sport, but no new records were made. The first year the championships, although representative, were
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• The Wheelmen. - The San Francisco Examiner, 21 Apr 1884
  ...laps. Total for the bicyclists, 1,073 miles. This score beats all previous records for both horses and bicyclists in a similar race by over 150 miles. During
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• CHAT ABOUT THE CYCLE. - The San Jose Road Club and Its Members. - General Interest in the Race Meets to Be Held To-Day - High Jinks in the Redwoods. - The San Francisco Call, Jul 4, 1892
  ...f the grand stand at the races. All feel confident that they will see many records broken and the finest race meet the coast has ever seen. ...[[Wilbur J. Edwards|Edwards]] or [[George H. Osen|Osen]] if several coast records are not lowered. The track is in better condition than ever before. The [[p
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• Bay City Wheelmen track at Central Park
  ...Citys have struck the nail on the head, and that at the July meeting coast records are bound to go under. ...fact that since the erection of the "new-fangled track" three of the Coast records have been lowered without apparent exertion.
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• CHAT ABOUT THE CYCLE. - The San Francisco Call - Jul 18, 1892
  ==== The Records of Spooner and Waller Compared. ==== ...for road racing in California, and to receive and pass upon all claims for records made on the road to competition or against time, at stated distances or bet
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• THE WHEEL. - Enthusiasts Who Are Keeping in Trim for Near Future Events. - The San Francisco Call, 06 May 1894
  ...ntages the Eastern rider's have over those of the Pacific Coast. All other records for the quarter, half and two miles were very materially reduced also. ...The first time a meet is held there and the wind does not blow some coast records will be shattered.
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• AMONG THE WHEELMEN - J. E. Edwards - San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr 1895
  ...not seem improbable that before the season of 1895 shall have passed more records will be smashed. ...tleman|Casey Castelman]] and [[W. A. Burke|Billy Burke]] will each try for records to-day at the [[Garden City Cyclers three-lap cement track|Garden City Cycl
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• Clint R. Coulter
  ...lter was quite successful, too, and at this moment is in Denver trying for records, His partner, Reynolds, returned to Toledo at once when the trip was abando Three world's records at Louisville; 14 firsts, 10 seconds, 9 thirds, and 1 fourth—C. R. Coulte
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• Mike Dirnberger
  ...better shape than when he visited us out here in the spring of 1894. These records will stand until the end of September now, as the league rules state: "No p
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• The Bicycle. - The San Francisco Examiner, 28 Mar 1887
  It is said that [[G. P. Mills]], who holds all the long-distance records, will compete in the 100-mile race that is to take place at St. Louis durin
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• The Wheelmen. - San Francisco Chronicle, 26 May 1890
  ...rack was so bad no fast time could be made. [[W. A. Shockley]] holds these records now, but Plummer's friends say they will come down on the Fourth, while it
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• The Wheelmen. - San Francisco Chronicle, 01 Jun 1891
  ...le Club]], held on the [[San Leandro triangle]] on [[Decoration day]], the records for California, and, in fact, for the United States, to use a common expres ...the pink of condition and any number of cushion and pneumatic tire wheels records will be - whist - "out of sight."
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• Casey Castleman
  ...ers three-lap cement track|San Jose track]]. Burke is after short distance records, while Castleman will go for the American record for twenty-five miles and ...later part of next month, when it is their intention to go for the class B records, from five miles to twenty-five.
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• THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call, 27 Apr 1895
  ...essed in California; the track was exceptionally fast, in that two world's records were considerably lowered; the management was excellent - in fact, there wa ...prevails that in the one and two mile scratch races, class B, wherein the records were lowered, whoever was first behind the tandem which did the pacemaking
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• George P. Wetmore
  [[THE SPEEDY CYCLERS. - Coast Records Sure to Be Lowered. - Eastern Cracks Now on the Road. - San Francisco Chron
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• HIS RACING CAREER - Walter Foster Gets Favorable Mention. - Alameda Daily Argus, 19 Oct 1895
  [[Walter F. Foster]], who has been making some new records at Napa, receives a column of very favorable mention in to-day's ''[[:Categ
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• Sacramento New Pavilion indoor track
  ...their position. Mr. Elwell, the engineer and builder, predicts all indoor records will be broken on this track at the tournament July 23d, 24th and 25th.
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