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- ...ight, and followed it up by winning the half-mile handicap the next night. On Labor day at Alameda, in the Olympic Club Wheelmen's meet, he won the half- ...w, taking the 9:30 a.m. boat and train to Golden Gate, Berkeley, where the wheels will be resumed. William Beatty has been elected to membership in this club2 KB (273 words) - 05:12, 25 October 2021
- ...tarters, beating such good riders as [[Cushing]] and [[Sampson]], who were on the same [[scratch|mark]]. Next year will see him in all class A track even ...w, taking the 9:30 a.m. boat and train to Golden Gate, Berkeley, where the wheels will be resumed. William Beatty has been elected to membership in this club4 KB (639 words) - 15:16, 17 July 2023
- ...rom which the descent to Highland Springs was gradual. A few miles further on to Kelseyville completed the second-days' trip. ...ings and Blue lakes. After an hour's boating the start was made for Ukiah. On the road to Ukiah the dust averaged six inches in depth.2 KB (394 words) - 16:06, 7 March 2022
- The following extracts are taken from the article on "Racing," written by [[Robert Assheton Smyth|R. A. Smythe]] for the “Divi ...t, straight handles - far removed from the light, graceful, easy-running [[wheels]] of to-day. It was not considered necessary to have elaborate racing-rigs,3 KB (428 words) - 20:06, 21 December 2021
- ...cks over a railroad trestle. One cycler tried to ford the stream and stood on his head in the middle, much to the hilarity of the rest. The start was mad Big Wheels8 KB (1,252 words) - 15:34, 4 June 2022
- === FAST WHIRRING WHEELS. === ...icyclists made a great feature of the grand [[parade]] this morning, their wheels being gayly decorated.6 KB (915 words) - 23:40, 11 July 2023
- ...e was for one mile, and was won by E. D. Woodman in 4 minutes, 53 seconds. On the same day the five-mile championship was won by Fitzgerald. In November ...ort, straight handles, — far removed from the light, graceful easy-running wheels of today. There is a story told that, during this meet, Edwin Mohrig, who w8 KB (1,423 words) - 13:53, 19 October 2021
- ...is a fine sandy bottom. [[George Butler]], the club photographer, will be on hand to place upon paper the well muscled forms of the Herculeses and Adoni The [[B. C. W.]] wishes to acknowledge the receipt of a clipping on "training" from some unknown friend. If he can send the name of the book fr6 KB (988 words) - 05:22, 22 December 2021
- ...h black. The medals, which are said to be very handsome, will be presented on this occasion. It is understood that all league members will be invited. ...elch]] has assigned the election of a representative to the league members on this side of the bay. There is but one candidate so far, [[W. W. Haralson]]3 KB (486 words) - 16:37, 5 January 2023
- ...the Olympic Club Wheelmen. Behind them came others, old but on more modern wheels. Judge Frank H. Kerrigan, James W. Mullen, Wilbur Knapp, Tony Delmas, Walte2 KB (313 words) - 02:10, 11 January 2022
- ...de, with the expectation of carrying away some of the honors for decorated wheels. Others are entered in the races and seem confident of winning laurels. The2 KB (241 words) - 13:55, 4 October 2021
- ...and R. A. Smyth. Of the wheels ridden forty three were "ordinary," or tall wheels, and ten were safeties. ..., W. H. Chard, C. C. Frye and B. G. Frye will leave Sunday for Los Angeles on their bicycles. They will be gone four weeks.6 KB (1,051 words) - 04:54, 21 December 2021
- ...the ring, but badly scarred. His header resulted in several very bad cuts on his face and head. ...irer, who used to be with ex-Chief Consul [[Edwin Mohrig|Mohrig]], was out on the San Leandro road Sunday, as smiling as ever.5 KB (801 words) - 04:56, 22 December 2021
- ...after an absence from the roads of some weeks, again made their appearance on safeties last Sunday. They took a trip to San Leandro and thence to Lake Ch ...abate. Riders can be seen on the streets in large numbers every Sunday and on moonlight evenings.3 KB (448 words) - 01:21, 27 December 2022
- [[BAY CITY WHEELMEN, Well-Known Athletes Who Travel Around on Wheels. - The San Francisco Examiner, Oct 14, 1888]]1 KB (250 words) - 03:41, 27 October 2021
- == THE FIRST BIKE ON THE COAST. == ===== First Wheelmen on the Coast - Military Resections on the Government Reservation - Meets, Runs and Feeds. =====12 KB (2,042 words) - 21:28, 11 June 2023
- === ON TWO WHEELS. === [[Category:On Two Wheels]]4 KB (601 words) - 03:33, 22 December 2021
- ...ined the twenty-two minutes lost at the start so that Millbrae was reached on schedule time. The hotel man was quite unprepared for such a crowd at break All along the route the people were on the lookout for the riders, and they were given a big reception at each tow5 KB (863 words) - 01:21, 27 December 2022
- ==== A Sport Which is Fast Becoming Popular on This Coast. ==== ...bicycles, an [[San Francisco Examiner|EXAMINER]] reporter recently called on several firms which make a specialty of this line and learned many things w12 KB (1,952 words) - 22:16, 19 August 2023
- ...https://goo.gl/maps/cYs8TYGbxrEJ2Df56 Sierra Point], carrying their wheels on their shoulders. ...ary. Beyond to [[Uncle Tom's Cabin]] the road was passable, but from there on to San Mateo much walking was necessary. Then the road was fine to Redwood3 KB (449 words) - 17:20, 4 October 2021
- ...xt summer, when so many excursions and trips into the country will be made on these machines. ...so fastened. The crank should never be keyed on to the shaft but fastened on to a square head.4 KB (639 words) - 15:52, 21 December 2021
- ...ion to the [https://downtownalameda.com/about/history/ Tucker block facing on Santa Clara avenue], and occupy three rooms - club room, parlor and kitchen ...a person can make a mile in much faster time on a home trainer than he can on terra firma. The machine for the Diamonds is being constructed by Messrs. C5 KB (826 words) - 23:52, 11 July 2023
- The members of the San Francisco Bicycle Club on Sunday started for a club picnic at Crystal Springs. The start was made fro ...k precisely the bicyclists to the number of 150 formed in line and started on their trip in the following order, riding two and two: Chief Consul R. M. W3 KB (473 words) - 14:50, 9 October 2021
- ...the crowds. Those who were present at the Venetian celebration were there on pleaseure bent, but the mass of men and women who blocked Folsom street, fr ...e clubs, prime movers in the matter of South Side improvements, with their wheels gayly decorated, spun in and around the great crowd and won its cheers.2 KB (386 words) - 15:15, 11 November 2021
- ...annual one for men in the trade, that for next year being already planned on a larger scale. The party included [[J. S. Conwell]], [[Edwin Mohrig]], [[R ...clubs to Lake Chabot, near San Leandro, next Sunday. Dinner will be served on a barge anchored out in the lake.3 KB (460 words) - 23:55, 6 July 2023
- ...Bicycle and Athletic Club|the home club]] were nile green and pink and the wheels were covered with them, while some carried flowers as well. [[WHIRLING WHEELS! - The Greatest Racing Meet Ever Held on the Coast. - Alameda Daily Argus - May 31, 1892]]11 KB (1,787 words) - 16:15, 16 July 2023
- ...d riders did not start. This is the first successful century run ever held on this coast. The riders wish to thank the San Jose club, [[Bailey]], [[Cole] ...on-prince John S. Prince] has traveled 767 9-10 miles in forty-eight hours on an indoor track, riding an "[https://copakeauction.hibid.com/lot/23646963/c3 KB (549 words) - 01:26, 27 December 2022
- ...in with some San Jose cyclists, and with these they visited the stone dam. On the return trip the San Jose boys went via the mountain road, [Calaveras? - Those on the run were: President A. T. Janzen, J. F. Hancock, E. S. Battles, J. C. L3 KB (478 words) - 05:54, 3 January 2022
- Recently the club has gained many new members, and seems to have entered on a new era of prosperity. Its officers are as follows: Thomas R. Knox, presi [[San Francisco Call, Volume 73, Number 85, 23 February 1893 - RACING ON WHEELS - A Pacific Coast Record Broken.]]2 KB (384 words) - 20:52, 24 September 2021
- ...days Mullen and Montealegre had to pay a man $8 50 to carry them and their wheels to the nearest railway station, while Dr. Morris started back awheel. He ha ...tion of holding a race meet was discussed. The association will meet again on August 9, at the Young Men's Christian Association.2 KB (356 words) - 17:10, 2 July 2023
- The [[Santa Rosa wheelmen]] met on Tuesday night and organized a bicycle club. Fifteen or twenty persons were ...heelmen, Organized April 27, 1882, Santa Rosa, Cal.” There is also printed on the badge a picture of a bicycle running at full speed propelled by the clu5 KB (821 words) - 06:42, 15 January 2023
- ...the showing they made against same of the older racers in the [[brushes]] on the way to Hollister, are going to see what they can do at [[San Jose]], an ...rs.com/clip/71333039/the-san-francisco-bicycle-clubinformal/ its new house on O'Farrell street], between Scott and Steiner. The new home is a two-story f4 KB (651 words) - 01:22, 27 December 2022
- ...wiki/Half_Moon_Bay,_California#History Spanishtown] road as far as Wylie's on the summit, from where they rode along the ridge of the mountains to [https ...p-jr-trip/ W. M. Meeker & S. H. Knapp Jr. trip Spanishtown road to Wylie's on the summit 27 May 1889, Mon San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, Califor4 KB (600 words) - 17:18, 21 February 2022
- ...5 o'clock. After passing Belmont Lee was compelled to return. Schuler kept on, however, with Vidy, who joined at Belmont, and reached the starting point ...lub|San Francisco club]], will be sorry for the affliction that befell him on Friday in the loss of his father, who was killed at his home in Sonoma Coun3 KB (550 words) - 01:19, 27 December 2022
- [[FLYING WHEELS AROUND CURVES. - OPENING NIGHT OF THE TOURNAMENT AT THE MECHANICS PAVILION .... San Francisco Call, Volume 78, Number 15, 15 June 1895|FULLER AND LEMMON ON A TANDEM.]]]]2 KB (404 words) - 15:48, 9 December 2021
- ...embers of the [[Bay City Wheelmen]] and five of the [[Highland Club]] boys on February 22d, the course being from Gilroy to Menlo Park. The prize is a cl ...[[Highland Park Wheelmen|Highland Park Club]], which had made the run down on the other side of the bay. The night was passed at San Jose.8 KB (1,305 words) - 15:29, 8 January 2023
- ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edenvale,_San_Jose Edenvale] youth mounted on a machine similar to no other ever seen in [[San Jose]] before that time ro ...e. Yes, it is called a safety. Yes, I can go just as fast with it as I can on the [[high bicycle]]," etc.4 KB (595 words) - 00:51, 27 December 2022
- ...out brothers belong the honor of being the first to make the Yosemite trip on bicycles. [[ON THE WHEEL. - Daily Alta California, 29 November 1885]]8 KB (1,343 words) - 15:59, 7 March 2022
- ...he 8 A. M. boat to [[Sausalito]], taking train to San Anselmo and resuming wheels to destination. ...will hold a [[race::five-mile handicap road race over the San Mateo course on Sunday, August 25th]].3 KB (541 words) - 17:35, 11 December 2022
- ...gentleman named [[G. L. Cunningham]], rode from this city to [[San Jose]] on an English bicycle. The time made was twelve hours and forty-five minutes. ...San Francisco]], left that place Saturday morning at 6:30 o'clock, mounted on an English bicycle, and arrived at the [https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/bui15 KB (2,313 words) - 02:25, 12 June 2023
- [[BAY CITY WHEELMEN, Well-Known Athletes Who Travel Around on Wheels. - The San Francisco Examiner, Oct 14, 1888]] ...y week. Leaving San Mateo they took the Spanishtown road as far as Wylie's on the summit, from where they rode along the ridge of the mountains to Pelarc3 KB (523 words) - 05:29, 19 January 2022
- ...y will make it the fastest four-lap track in the State. Work will commence on it May 1. ...those who have ridden on it state that the Bay Citys have struck the nail on the head, and that at the July meeting coast records are bound to go under.9 KB (1,508 words) - 20:16, 27 June 2023
- ...cher|Dieffenbacher]] on the ninth relay. In crossing the bridges which lay on his course he punctured his tires in ten places with the slivers. He had to ...st considerable time. He gave [[Waibel]] a goood lead and the clever rider on the final relay sprinted down the course at a 26:18 clip, which is the reco8 KB (1,192 words) - 19:22, 18 January 2023
- ...mic]. Some of the same agitations between classes and castes, between four wheels and two are evident in these two 1894 articles as are evident now.'' ...eelmen Will Consider What Steps Should Be Taken to Remove the Restrictions on Bicycles - Result of The Agitation in New York - A Wheelman's suggestions.8 KB (1,319 words) - 15:19, 17 March 2022
- ...brothers belong the honor of being the first to make the [[Yosemite]] trip on bicycles. [[ON THE WHEEL. - Daily Alta California, 29 November 1885]]3 KB (485 words) - 19:07, 23 April 2023
- ...A. W. members. Only men over eighteen years of age who own and ride their wheels are wanted. Yesterday being an unusually pleasant day, the number of wheelmen out on the road was very large. Among the number were a host of new riders who wer3 KB (564 words) - 01:27, 27 December 2022
- ...o the Board of Supervisors complaining of the action of wheelmen in riding on the sidewalks instead of in the streets. ...ot be induced to abandon it, and the actions of these few bring opprobrium on wheelmen as a class.4 KB (626 words) - 17:21, 13 August 2023
- ...k:/61903/1:1:H981-XKW2 Toney Jule Delmas married Harriet Lindabell Boucher on 30 Oct 1904] ...the Olympic Club Wheelmen. Behind them came others, old but on more modern wheels. Judge Frank H. Kerrigan, James W. Mullen, Wilbur Knapp, [[Antonio J. Delma3 KB (447 words) - 14:16, 11 November 2021
- .../# Charles Crocker], who capitulated to this bold proceeding and signed it on the spot. During the first four years of the San Francisco Club's existence ...-put-today-s-bike-hipsters-to-shame-36864ee5e02 San Francisco Bicycle Club on San Leandro Road between San Leandro and Milpitas; H.A. Greene, Captain. Un4 KB (568 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2021
- ...umb left, and he was confined to a milk diet. Some good scorching was done on the return trip. Scovern and Twitchell made the best time. These boys promi [[San Francisco Call, Volume 73, Number 85, 23 February 1893 - RACING ON WHEELS - A Pacific Coast Record Broken.]]6 KB (960 words) - 05:21, 21 July 2023
