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• Track
  ...an arena for track cycling. Modern velodromes feature steeply banked oval tracks, consisting of two 180-degree circular bends connected by two straights. Th See also [[:Category:tracks]]
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• Oakland Trotting Park
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• Goodwater Grove track at Stockton
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• Sacramento New Pavilion indoor track
  ...Oak Park]], a neighborhood in Sacramento. There were two different bicycle tracks built at the same time, in the same city. ...the track, and his well-known ability obviates all danger which exists on tracks of the kind not properly constructed.
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• SAN JOSE'S PIONEERS OF THE BICYCLE - San Jose Mercury-news, Volume LXXIV, Number 77, 17 March 1908
  ...was one of the most popular cycle riders on California [[:Category:tracks|tracks]] as well as one of the most successful in the heyday of cycling.
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• Olympic Club athletic grounds
  [[Category:tracks]]
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• Garden City Wheelmen World Famous. - San Jose Mercury-news, 6 September 1906
  === Every Year San Jose Sends Its Quota of Riders to Fastest Tracks in the World, Where Victories of Note Are Won - Observation Race Along Rout ...f the local riders join the "great majority" and leave home for the saucer tracks in Salt Lake and Ogden, graduating from there to the faster professional ra
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• Haight-street Baseball Grounds
  [[Category:tracks]]
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• Bay district race track
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• THE BICYCLE SPEED TRACK - The Sacramento Bee, 07 Jan 1896
  ...al City Wheelmen last night the committee appointed on a speed [[:Category:Tracks|track]] made its report and submitted a plan of a racing track the estimate
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• San Francisco Velodrome
  One of the features of the inclosure will be a six-lap [[:Category:tracks|bicycle track]], built on the latest and most approved plans. Then there wi [[Category:tracks]]
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• Dick Moody
  ...was one of the most popular cycle riders on California [[:Category:tracks|tracks]] as well as one of the most successful in the heyday of cycling.
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• Sacramento (Oak Park) outdoor track
  There were two tracks built in [[Sacramento]], in the same one year period, one indoor at the [ht ...ver three-fourths of a mile - a flat roadway, quite heavy, crossed by rail tracks, by roads and paths, and with four sharp turns that are not banked up at al
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• BICYCLE TOURNAMENT. - A Great One Soon to be Held at the New Pavilion. - The Record-Union, 28 Jun 1896
  ...the track, and his well-known ability obviates all danger which exists on tracks of the kind not properly constructed.
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• Merton Duxbury
  ...ill ride to Sacramento, and from there follow the Central Pacific Railroad tracks to Ogden. From this point his route is not positively mapped out. The recor you know Mr. Duxbury went over Donner Summit on the railroad tracks and
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• Garden City Cyclers three-lap cement track
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• OUR CYCLE CHAMPIONS. - The Fastest Riders in the State. - San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr 1893
  ...seconds slow in a mile in comparison with the specially prepared half-mile tracks of the East. There are many fast riders in California, and some embryo reco ...rke is a phenomenal [[spurter]], and how fast he could ride on the Eastern tracks is a matter of conjecture, but 2:12 for a mile should not stop him.
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• Three-lap track at the Midwinter Fair
  ...ll give to San Francisco a track that will be equaled by very few, if any, tracks in the world. It is the intention to offer such prizes as will induce the a [[Category:tracks]]
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• D. L. Burke
  .... Burke is a phenomenal spurter, and how fast he could ride on the Eastern tracks is a matter of conjecture, but 2:12 for a mile should not stop him.
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• STRIVING FOR GOOD STREETS. - The San Francisco Examiner - 22 May 1895
  ...action as will compel the improvement of Folsom street before the electric tracks are laid thereon. They will demand that the thoroughfare from Fourth to Nin ...d make a good boulevard and just the street for bicyclists if these unused tracks were taken up and the entire width of the street bituminized. The entire le
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• ON THE LINES OF THE VELODROME. - The San Francisco Examiner, 02 Aug 1896
  One of the features of the inclosure will be a six-lap [[:Category:tracks|bicycle track]], built on the latest and most approved plans. Then there wi
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• Bay City Wheelmen track at Central Park
  ...as to the track and what they think of it when compared with other racing tracks. All those who have ridden on it state that the Bay Citys have struck the n [[Category:tracks]]
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• Oak Leaf Wheelmen
  ...rnia Division will have a regular circuit and with new men and first-class tracks it is hoped that some of the world's records may journey across the contine [[Bicycle racing tracks in California, The Bearings, December 16, 1892]]
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• Alameda Cyclers
  Alameda has Two Excellent Tracks, but no Cycle Club - The Absence of Such a Club is the Wonderment of All Wh
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• Harry Francis Terrill
  ...y are not speedier, at any rate have the pacing teams and knowledge of the tracks down so fine as to be almost unbeatable."
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• THE CYCLING MEN. - A SUPERB TRACK IS TO BE CONSTRUCTED. - San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Nov 1893
  ...ll give to San Francisco a track that will be equaled by very few, if any, tracks in the world. It is the intention to offer such prizes as will induce the a
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• First street track
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• A Short But Picturesque Ride Through Jack Hayes Canyon - The San Francisco Examiner - Saturday, June 01, 1895
  ...street in Oakland, ride out that thoroughfare, following the electric car tracks] to the crossroads beyond [https://oaklandwiki.org/Saint_Mary%27s_College t
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• Wheel. - The San Francisco Examiner, 28 Nov 1887
  ...s afraid that when the English riders come over next year there will be no tracks for them to race on, as Springfield has received no attention in two years;
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• William A. Terrill
  ...y are not speedier, at any rate have the pacing teams and knowledge of the tracks down so fine as to be almost unbeatable."
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• H. W. Squires
  ...ound, past San Leandro and along the county road, beside the electric road tracks. They aided each other by exchanging pace continually, a great advantage ov
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• THE CYCLING WORLD. - San Francisco Bicycle Club annexed by Olympic Cycling Annex - San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Jul 1893
  ...I believe, naturally not so fast as the Riverside or even the Los Angeles tracks. Workmen are engaged in putting it into shape all the time, and they expect
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• Alameda Cycle Park track
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• Charles S. Wells
  ...[[Charles S. Wells]], the California Giant, a rider well known on Eastern tracks last year. Wells did little in '95 until after the circuit started West fro ...ifornia giant, as he is known, and the crackajacks from the Eastern indoor tracks in their first meeting will be worthy the attendance of every lover of cycl
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• Herman C. Eggers
  ...ed for horse racing. The track was in consequence softly rolled. No cinder tracks such as modern cyclists use could be found then.
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• BICYCLISTS IN BAD LUCK. - Dirnberger Was Thrown and Bliss Pocketed in Their First Race. - The San Francisco Examiner, 20 May 1894
  The few guards to keep people off the tracks got in the way of the officials and the floral procession crossed and recro
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• BY POPULAR ACCLAIM - San Francisco Examiner - May 23, 1895
  ...portion required by law to be kept in order by the railroad company having tracks thereon. The maximum cost of said pavement will be 20 cents per square foot ...portion required by law to be kept in order by the railroad company having tracks thereon.
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• THE WHEELMEN - The Camera Club Cyclists Will Tour Through Lake County - The San Francisco Call, 29 Jun 1895
  ...es as a variety to the small boy who was wont to place cartridges upon car tracks heretofore. A few sharp reprimands would have a desirable effect, but the t
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• Frank D. Elwell
  ...den track, which has been the scene of many great races. He also built the tracks at Salt Lake and Ogden. [[OLD TIME RACER TO BUILD TRACKS - Frank D. Elwell Will Assist in Re-establishing Bike Game. - Sun, Oct 27,
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• THE WHEEL. - Enthusiasts Who Are Keeping in Trim for Near Future Events. - The San Francisco Call, 06 May 1894
  ...Newspaper/San-20Francisco-20Call|THE CALL]] that, with the improvements in tracks and the more popular use of racing [[wheels]], the coast records would be b
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• J. E. Alexander
  ...The fence ends, and you seem lost in a great desert. Walking in the wagon tracks you think the other bank will bring relief. You struggle up the other side
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• San Leandro triangle
  ...eandro Blvd that might pose a problem too, because it goes under the train tracks and has no shoulder."</i>
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• THE WHEELMEN. - San Francisco Call, 27 July 1895
  ...//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Pacific_Railroad Central Pacific Railroad] tracks to Ogden. From this point his route is not positively mapped out. The recor
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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
  ...The fence ends, and you seem lost in a great desert. Walking in the wagon tracks you think the other bank will bring relief. You struggle up the other side
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• Howard Alexander
  ...The fence ends, and you seem lost in a great desert. Walking in the wagon tracks you think the other bank will bring relief. You struggle up the other side
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• Frank Lee Hunter
  ...The fence ends, and you seem lost in a great desert. Walking in the wagon tracks you think the other bank will bring relief. You struggle up the other side
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• Liberty
  ...but the animal had taken to the woods, leaving a trail filled with immense tracks. On Monday Jack Briones, one of the old-time Mexican settlers, caught sight
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• Chronological index of historical cycling articles in San Francisco Bay Area Bicycle Culture, Historical
  ...ogspot.com/2021/01/bicycle-racing-tracks-in-california.html Bicycle racing tracks in California, The Bearings, December 16, 1892] ...021/02/old-time-racer-to-build-tracks-frank-d.html OLD TIME RACER TO BUILD TRACKS - Frank D. Elwell Will Assist in Re-establishing Bike Game. - Sun, Oct 27,
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• THE WHEELMEN. - San Francisco Call - October 26, 1895
  ...otwithstanding the fact that over two dozen railroad and several streetcar tracks had to be crossed on the out and home trip. The first thirteen men rode the
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• The Wheel. - San Francisco Chronicle, 09 Jul 1888
  [[A. W. Allen]] of Los Angeles: "I have seen a good deal of racing on Eastern tracks and I have done some myself. Elwell's muscles were in very poor condition f
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