A Social History of the Bicycle, Its Early Life and Times in America |
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... hundred miles all in the same day . The club awarded a gold bar each time it was done . The whole idea was the object of a contemptuous indictment by the New York Herald in 1893 . The fellow who is ambitious to ride a century every ...
... hundred miles all in the same day . The club awarded a gold bar each time it was done . The whole idea was the object of a contemptuous indictment by the New York Herald in 1893 . The fellow who is ambitious to ride a century every ...
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... hundred miles in a little over three days ! Gus rolled out on June 11 , fortified by the determination to break the Ameri- can record of six hundred miles in one ride . Egloff completed the first five hundred miles in a little less than ...
... hundred miles in a little over three days ! Gus rolled out on June 11 , fortified by the determination to break the Ameri- can record of six hundred miles in one ride . Egloff completed the first five hundred miles in a little less than ...
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... hundred miles of bikeways , and in May , 1970 , over one thousand cyclists made the 210 - mile trip through the Scioto River Valley between Columbus and Portsmouth . Wisconsin is especially proud of its 320- mile bikeway - the modern ...
... hundred miles of bikeways , and in May , 1970 , over one thousand cyclists made the 210 - mile trip through the Scioto River Valley between Columbus and Portsmouth . Wisconsin is especially proud of its 320- mile bikeway - the modern ...
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Albert Pope amateur American Bicycler American Wheelmen automobile became bell bicycle craze BICYCLE INSTITUTE bicycle racing bicycle trust bloomer costume bloomer girl Boston brakes Brooklyn called cent Chicago Tribune Company contest craze crowd CULVER PICTURES cycle paths cycle racing cyclers cycling clubs cyclists dollars draisine dress front wheel handlebars Harper's Weekly highways horse hundred miles Ibid improved INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Jersey June lady later League of American Lillian Russell machine magazine makers manufacturers Merrick Road Minneapolis Tribune mounted nation newspaper organization pacers Park passed pedaled pedestrians pneumatic police prizes Prowler racers result ride riders Riverside Daily Enterprise Road Race rode saddle safety bicycle Scientific American scorcher speed sport streets summer of 1895 Sunday Taylor thing thousand tires took track turned United vehicles velocipede wagons warned wear woman women York City York Herald York Journal young