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• Charles W. Hammer
  ...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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• George A. Faulkner
  ...elmen, George A. Faulkner holds the Pacific Coast record for a twenty-five-mile road race.
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• Highland Park Wheelmen
  ...nd [[J. Blinn]], of the Highland Club, were in this section making a fifty-mile road [[run]]. The course is from [[San Leandro]], up the [[Hayward road]], ...sting bicycle race occurred on Washington's Birthday, the event being a 50-mile road race from Gilroy to Menlo Park. Teams from the Bay City Club, of San F
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• Edward Chapman
  A Napa Wheelman Goes a Half Mile. ...e in the Admission Day race at San Jose, made a try against Ziegler's half-mile record. He pedaled behind a sulky for a wind brake and made the half in one
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• Santa Rosa Wheelmen
  ...ent in Sonoma County, with two exceptions - a one-mile handicap and a half-mile handicap, class A, to be participated in only by members of the Bay City, R One mile, first prize, suit of clothes; second, silver wine goblet; third, gold slee
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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
  ...e the champions of the Coast at all distances. [[:Category:1894 annual 100-mile relay race|The winning team]] was made up of men who proved to be equally a The quarter-mile track on the grounds of the late [[Alameda Athletic and Bicycle Club]] has
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• WITH THE WHEELMEN. - San Francisco Chronicle - 05 Jan 1895, Sat - Page 12
  Next month [[the annual twenty-five mile road race of the California Associated Cycling Clubs]] is to be held, and a ...ident that his club will make a good showing in the coming [[:Category:100-mile relay race from San Francisco to Oakland|relay]] race.
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• NEW BICYCLE RECORD. - San Francisco Chronicle, 06 Aug 1894
  ====== Incidents of the Exciting Ten-Mile Race From Alameda to Haywards. ====== The [[Olympic Club Wheelmen]]'s [[race::ten-mile handicap road race]] took place yesterday morning over the straightaway cou
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• NEARING A MILE A MINUTE. - The San Francisco Examiner - February 11, 1895
  === NEARING A MILE A MINUTE. === Everybody is asking how a bicycle can be ridden a mile on an ordinary road in close to a minute and half or 1:34 1-5. It is indeed
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• WHEELMEN'S ROAD RACES - San Francisco Call - August 19, 1895
  ==== Olympic and Imperial Clubs' Five-Mile Events at San Mateo. ==== ...past three months, but none have proved such drawing cards as the two five-mile events run off yesterday after-noon by the [[Olympic Club Wheelmen]] and th
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• OAKLAND'S BIKES BUZZ. - Oakland Tribune - March 14, 1904
  ...able club runs taken by the [[Oakland Wheelmen]] came off yesterday. Fully twenty-five members of this popular organization visited [[Haywards]], [[San Leandro]] ...l be held on the following Sunday, March 27, at Haywards. It will be a ten mile race around the [[Haywards triangle]].
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• THE WHEELMEN. - San Jose Road Club's Five-Mile Road Race To-Morrow. - HE IS AN ENTHUSIAST. - Henry Martin Now Rides a Bike for Pleasure. - San Francisco Call, 3 August 1895
  ==== San Jose Road Club's Five-Mile Road Race To-Morrow. ==== [[San Jose Road Club]] — Five-mile road race.
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• William M. Meeker
  ...he affair. He raced a little in 1885, his best performance being in a five-mile race at Benicia, when he beat [[W. G. Davis]] from scratch, allowing the la
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• The Wheel. - San Francisco Chronicle, 23 May 1887
  ...e State championships have yet to be approved by the racing board. The two-mile national has not yet been assigned to this division, but it has been asked One-mile maiden - [[Fred Hood]], [[J. Henderson]], [[B. H. Patrick]], [[Charles B. W
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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
  ...to reel off many a mile this day. Weather fine, cool, calm. I paced him a mile or so and put him onto a wrinkle in the road to Santa Maria." When it is taken into consideration that the three days, twenty-two hours and twenty-five minutes includes three good nights' sleep and nearly fifteen stops for meal
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• Charles B. Wheaton
  ...of Alameda surprised his many friends by making a great record in the one mile handicap at Stockton. ...d undoubtedly have the advantage of Plummer, but for any distance over one mile Plummer would have as great, if not a greater advantage over him. Both men
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• THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call, 06 Jul 1895
  ...t the game again, and showed he had not lost his speed, by winning the one-mile handicap class A quite handily. The accident in which [[Frank M. Byrne|Byrn The [[Acme Club Wheelmen]] will hold [[a ten-mile road race over the Fruitvale-Haywards course on July 28]]. This will be a b
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• AMONG THE WHEELMEN - J. B. Carey Rides the First Century. - The Question of Race Meet Dates. - San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Jan 1895
  The [[Acme Wheelmen]] announce a [[five-mile handicap club race to be held on February 5th]], providing the roads dry up The Garden City Cyclers intend bolding [[a twenty-five-mile race on May day between San Jose and Gilroy]]. The course is a straight one
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• To the Summit of Mount Diablo by Wheel. - Wheel. - San Francisco Chronicle, 08 Apr 1889
  [[Frank E. Richardson|Richardson]] will enter the five-mile race. [[Wheelmen]] have for some time been anxious to see what he can do. What's the matter with [[Clarence Howard]] for the mile novice?
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• A LOS ANGELES WHEELMAN. - Fox Will Represent Southern California at the Fair Races. - The San Francisco Examiner, 28 Apr 1894
  ...nfortunate and won nothing, not even getting credit for breaking the three-mile record, which I lowered 37-1/2 seconds, for the judges lost count of the la ...f by defeating the Coast champion, [[Walter Foster]], and lowering the two mile record. At this meet Mr. [[Otto Ziegler, Jr.|Zeigler]] treated me to the pr
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