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'Cyclistic. - Founding of Bay City Wheelmen - San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Sep 1884

==== 'Cyclistic ====
The Bay City Wheelmen's Club has been organised with the following officers: President, E. Mohrig; Vice President, George F. Day; Captain, R. F. Cook; Secretary, W. J. Munro; First Lieutenant, George Butler; Second Lieutenant, S. F. Booth; Bugler, Thomas Hill. The club has already taken a couple of runs. 
'Cycling is as popular in some parts of Ireland as in England and many clubs are established, with regular meets and some pretty good records.
Philadelphia has four schools for teaching the use of the tricycle and bicycle and it is a common sight to see in the course of an afternoon dozens of riders on hired machines taking a run through Fairmount.
Why is the word bicycle like a cat blind with one eye? Because it has one i (eye) and c's (sees).
They must bare some crooked roads in Australia. It is reported from that far-off land that a cyclist riding rapidly, upon turning a sharp curve became aware that there was a machine, or at least the hind wheel of one, in front of him. Upon dismounting he found it was his own hind wheel.
An electric tricycle is being imported from England.
The Century for September contains an interesting article on tricycling from Coventry to Chester. It is handsomely illustrated by Joseph Pennell, an enthusiastic wheelman, and vindicates the usefulness of the wheel as an adjunct lo entertaining literature.
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100-mile relay race from San Francisco to Oakland

This was a huge competition every year, around the bay, 100 miles, from San Francisco to Oakland through San Jose. Each team had ten men who raced ten mile legs, taking a relay from the previous rider of their team and handing off to the next. It was club against club but also man against man. 
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A. M. Boyden

=== Clubs ===
* Reliance Club Wheelmen
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It was only a few minutes before o'clock when the ten men who were to ride the first relay lined up on Market street, near Tenth, and awaited the word to go. The immense crowd pushed and jostled with each other to get a glimpse o the riders, while others who preferred to see them pass lined both sides of Ninth street for blocks. At exactly 9 o'clock to the second Starter McGlynn gave the word and the riders were off over the cobbles, each striving to reach Ninth street first, that he might have the advantage of leading down the cable slot as far as Potrero avenue. Kroetz of the Olympics secured the coveted position, and led the others a merry chase down Ninth street. The order was: Kroetz, Olympic; Bozio, Imperial; Robinson, San Francisco; Hardenbrook, Garden City; Languetin, Bay City; Schleuter, Acme; O'Brien, San Jose; Pratt, Alameda; Hanson, California, and Boyden, Reliance.
WELLS WON FOR THE BAY CITYS. - For the Second Time This Club Gets the Relay Cup. 100-mile relay race - The San Francisco Call, 13 Apr 1896
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A. McDonald

Arthur Louis McDonald 21 September 1881 – 18 June 1942
=== AKA ===
"Pat"
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Garden City Wheelmen
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WHEELMEN PREPARED FOR BIG ROAD RACE - The San Francisco Examiner, April 27, 1902
There are a number of San Jose people with the show, prominent among whom are Pat, better known as Arthur McDonald, and Maude Stewart, the former telephone girl, who is now the wife of Mr. McDonald. In conjunction with the four Avallons, Mr. and Mrs. McDonald and little Ida, the 12-year-old sister of Arthur McDonald, have a big bicycle number which they present upon the stage. Their work with the Avallons is entirely different from anything the McDonald troupe has ever performed in this city.
CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN; PARADE THIS MORNING - San Jose Mercury-news, 4 April 1907
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A. Theison

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* California Cycling Club
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====== SEVENTH RELAY. ======
Positionatfinish. 	Rider. 	Club. 	Time. 	ActualRidingTime.
1 	Ed Chapman 	Olympic 	12:14:00 	29:30
2 	Oscar Smith 	Garden C 	12:16:50 	30:20
3 	J. R. Sampson 	Acme 	12:17:00 	29:45
4 	S. B. Vincent 	Bay City 	12:17:05 	30:05
5 	J. C. Willoughby 	San Jose 	12:20:25 	30:26
6 	Bert Elford 	Reliance 	12:22:00 	30:00
7 	W. Maack 	Imperial 	12:22:20 	30:05
8 	C. Ackerman 	San Fran 	12:23:00 	30:00
9 	A. Theison 	California 	12:25:26 	31:55
10 	C. S. Shafer 	Alameda 	12:34:30 	31:30
Fastest time - 1894, 32:51; 1895, 28:11.	Fastest time - 1894, 32:51; 1895, 28:11.	Fastest time - 1894, 32:51; 1895, 28:11.	Fastest time - 1894, 32:51; 1895, 28:11.	Fastest time - 1894, 32:51; 1895, 28:11.
WELLS WON FOR THE BAY CITYS. - For the Second Time This Club Gets the Relay Cup. 100-mile relay race - The San Francisco Call, 13 Apr 1896
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A. W. Morgenstern

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* Alameda Cyclers
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====== EIGHTH RELAY. ======
Positionatfinish. 	Rider. 	Club. 	Time. 	ActualRidingTime.
1 	E. W. Decker 	Acme 	12:44:23 	27:23
2 	Julius Smith 	Garden C 	12:44:23 	27:33
3 	George Tantau 	Olympic 	12:45:18 	31:18
4 	T. A. Griffiths 	Bay City 	12:47:13 	30:08
5 	H. Caloway 	San Jose 	12:50:40 	30:15
6 	Percy Deacon 	Reliance 	12:51:35 	29:35
7 	H. A. Friedlander 	San Fran 	12:53:13 	29:50
8 	L. P. Olson 	California 	12:55:40 	30:15
9 	B. D. Blakeslee 	Imperial 	12:55:53 	33:33
10 	A. W. Morgenstern 	Alameda 	1:10:28 	35:58
Fastest time - 1894, 36:46; 1895, 31:33.	Fastest time - 1894, 36:46; 1895, 31:33.	Fastest time - 1894, 36:46; 1895, 31:33.	Fastest time - 1894, 36:46; 1895, 31:33.	Fastest time - 1894, 36:46; 1895, 31:33.
 
WELLS WON FOR THE BAY CITYS. - For the Second Time This Club Gets the Relay Cup. 100-mile relay race - The San Francisco Call, 13 Apr 1896
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ACME WHEELMEN. - Oakland Tribune, 22 Jul 1891

=== ACME WHEELMEN. ===
==== A Bicycle Club Formed at the Acme Clubrooms. ====
A number of the athletes of the Acme Athletic Club held a meeting at the clubrooms last night and formed the Acme Bicycle Club. The following signed the roll: Charles Bowman, E. S. Dowdle, S. S. Fogarty, J. J. Hanifin, L. A. Lamory, B. C. Leslie, H. A. Maxwell, G. F. Mier, O. L. Pickard, Steven Rice, T. F. Scanlon, F. W. Sharpe, H. N. Sloper, D. C. Van Court, M. A. Whidden, B. Ferris.
T. F. Scanlon of the Acme Club is an expert wheelman and has been teaching many of the boys how to mount a wheel. A few evenings ago Ned Campbell of the Dirigo was initiated. Ned can now ride a safety wheel in fair style.
Myron Whidden and J. J. Hanifin Jr. can be seen riding through the streets almost every evening.
The Alameda County Wheelmen will hold a run next Sunday to Haywards.
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ALL AROUND NOTES. - Oakland Tribune, 04 Apr 1887

=== ALL AROUND NOTES. ===
Hill and several amateur athletes are practicing at the Oakland grounds daily.
The Oakland Ramblers have moved from their old quarters in the Wilcox block, and have rented a store on Webster street. It will be fitted up in fine style presently.
A number of Oakland wheelmen will join the League of American Wheelmen annual race, to meet on the 2d, 3d, and 4th of July at Santa Cruz.
There is a movement on foot among some of the old riders to reorganize the old Oakland Wheelmen.
A paper devoted to wheeling will be published about the middle of June by R. H. Magill, Jr., C. J. Kryster, and B. Tisdale.
As the roads are now in a rather dusty condition, a slight shower of rain would make a vast improvement for wheeling pleasures.
Several riders on this and the other side of the bay are practicing daily for the Century run.
Tisdale has purchased Kryster's "star." He thinks that an "ordinary" is good enough for him.
The managers of the Fourteenth and Center street grounds in Oakland have recently improved the track, and it is now in splendid form for bicycling.
The members of the Columbia Rowing Club are doing very little at present, as they have nobody to contest with.
Mike Brennan and Jack McCauley had a prizefight in San Francisco yesterday. The fight was declared a draw.
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AMONG THE WHEELMEN. - San Francisco Call - January 15, 1896

=== AMONG THE WHEELMEN. ===
==== Shaefer and Wells Have Gone South - Olympic Wheelmen's Election. ====
Charles S. Wells and his trainer, Dave Shaefer, returned to San Diego last night after a three days' stay here. They will continue their efforts against the world's records on the mile horse track there. Shaefer's principal object in coming here was to secure Otto Ziegler Jr. for his team. Ziegler was willing to sign a contract, but does not want to go into training immediately. All other details were satisactory. He feels the need of a rest now, after his long season on the Eastern circuit. He will probably ride on Shaefer's team, however, in 1896, and may have Tom Cooper, Charles S. Wells and W. A. Terrill as his team mates.
The Bay City Wheelmen do not care to join the Interclub Baseball League now being proposed. President Kerrigan says that it would dissipate the energies of the members toward racing, and as they are desirous of winning the annual relay he does not feel that the members should have anything to detract their attention from it. The club is strictly a bicycle club and will leave baseball to others.
The San Jose Road Club will hold a smoker next Saturday night and a ten-mile straightaway road race the following day on the Monterey road. The members are being trained for the relay.
The Bay City Wheelmen will hold a progressive euchre party at the clubrooms next Saturday evening, together with an impromptu musical entertainment and smoker.
The Olympic Club Wheelmen last evening elected the following officers: Charles A. Adams, president; Charles J. Leighton, vice-president; Horace V. Scott, secretary; George H. Stratton, treasurer; W. B. Fawcett, capain; F. W. Fuller, J. F. McGlynn, Thomas Spillane, executive committee. The wheelmen will attend the Olympic Club's benefit next Monday night in a body.
It will come as a great surprise to the cyclists and dealers of this City to learn that Will Knippenberg has resigned his position with the Syracuse people. No cause is assigned and his future intentions are unknown.
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ANGRY COW AIDS LIVIO MAGGINI WIN BIKE RACE - San Jose Mercury-news, 19 August 1907

== ANGRY COW AIDS LIVIO MAGGINI WIN BIKE RACE ==
=== Gives Chase to Handicapped Riders and They Beat the Scratch Men Out. ===
==== Charlie Chaboya Again Takes Gold Bar Offered for Best Time Made. ====
A COW who evidently thought Livio Maggini's gally colored racing suit had designs on the life of her newly born calf aided him in getting across the tape first in the handicap bicycle race held yesterday by the Garden City Wheelmen over the East San Jose 5-mile course.
Maggini and "Fat" Bryant started in the contest with a handicap of 1 minute and 15 seconds over Willie Chaboya and Charlie Chaboya, the "Evergreen Human Motors," who were in excellent shape for the contest, while the handicapped men were badly off color.
The Chaboya brothers rode themselves "all in" and half way around the course had almost overtaken the leaders. Then coming up King road a cow grazing by the roadside with a calf spied Maggini's and Bryant's pink and red racing suits. She put down her horns, stuck her tail straight up in the air and gave chase. Hearing the thudding of hoofs and an angry bellow behind them, Maggini and Bryant looked around - then they forgot that they were tired.
They also put down their heads and scorched. For a time it was nip and tuck, but after awhile when they dared to look around again the cow was nowhere to be seen - neither were the Chaboya brothers.
Nearing the tape Maggini unwound a long sprint and beat Bryant to the tape by half a length.
Thirty-five seconds later the Chaboyas flashed across the finish line one second apart, Charlie Chaboya, the younger, leading. Charlie's time for the five miles was 13:30 - very fast considering the very poor condition of the roads.
Ten minutes after the race had started a dozen sleepy bike riders appeared in East San Jose too late to start, for Captain Dermody was as good as his word and started the event promptly at 10 o'clock.
Charlie now leads in the club series of road races to determine the local "King of the Road." He had captured two of the gold bars offered for best time giving him a total of 10 points. Maggini and Inman each have 3 points to their credit.
A few entries for the big 25-mile handicap to be held a week from next Sunday are now coming in. They are from Nevada and San Francisco.
ANGRY COW AIDS LIVIO MAGGINI WIN BIKE RACE - San Jose Mercury-news, 19 August 1907
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A BICYCLE MEET. - A Ride Over the Point Lobos Road Yesterday. - San Francisco Chronicle - December 26, 1878

=== A BICYCLE MEET. ===
==== A Ride Over the Point Lobos Road Yesterday. ====
The San Francisco Bicycle Club, comprising a dozen members, is now permanently organized, with the following officers: President, Ralph de Clairmont; Secretary and Treasurer, C. L. Barrett; Captain, Loring Cunningham; Sub-Captain, W. B. Land. An informal meet, for the purpose of exercise and practice, was held yesterday at the toll gate on the Point Lobos road. Messrs. Cunningham, Barrett, Land, and Searle, mounted upon their bicycles, were present. The start was made at 10 o'clock A. M. from the Avenue House by the members, who, riding gayly along the hard but somewhat hilly road, practicing the running signals, and changing their positions frequently from single to double file, etc., journeyed to the Cliff House, which was reached in thirty minutes. Here a halt was made for lunch, and three of the party, remounting, set out at a quarter past 12 o'clock on the return trip, and riding rapidly, without tarrying by the wayside, arrived at the corner of Geary and Fillmore streets at 12:45, just half an hour from the time of starting, which is considered to be an excellent road-rate of speed. Much address and proficiency in the handling of their machines was displayed by the riders during the run, Captain Cunningham keeping his seat in the saddle all the way from the Cliff without once halting or manifesting any fatigue, and others of the company, when on a down grade, allowing their bicycles to run with gravity as the propelling power, or with the hands removed from the tiller. On Saturday last Messrs. Cunningham and Strong, in a trial jaunt, made the run from Oakland to the Mission San Jose, a distance of some thirty miles, in four hours, and returned home on the following day. During the latter part of next month James Searle another member of the club, will essay the long trip of 100 miles, from this city to South San Juan, in Monterey county, expecting to be only four days on the road.
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A BICYCLE RACE. - The Bay City Club and the Highland Park Club Compete. - Wed, Feb 24, 1886 - Page 3 - Oakland Tribune

See also BICYCLING. - Run of the Bay City Wheelmen and Other Speedy Clubs. - 22 Feb 1886, Mon The San Francisco Examiner
=== A BICYCLE RACE. ===
==== The Bay City Club and the Highland Park Club Compete. ====
An interesting 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 Francisco, and from the Highland Park Club, of Oakland competed for a prize of a bugle, to be won by the club gaining the greatest number of points. There were six entrees, [sic] three from each club. Sunday afternoon nine of the cyclers rode in company from San Jose to Gilroy. Within seven miles of Gilroy a swift, gravely stream obliged eight of the riders to climb a couple of fences and pack their machines on their backs 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 made from Gilroy at 7:25 A. M., Monday morning. Elwell and Booth, of the Bay City Club, led the way, closely followed by Churchill and Bowman, of the Highland Park Club, while Tittle and Roseborough [Rosborough] brought up the rear. The railroad bridge was taken by all but one rider, who waded the creek. When 12 miles out of Gilroy, Churchill took a severe tumble, breaking the handle bar from his machine, and thereby putting him out of the contest. The remaining five covered the 50 miles without further accident, arriving at Menlo Park in the following time and order: Elwell, 3:31; Bowman, 3:44; Booth, 3:55; Roseborough, 4:06; Tittle, 4:09. The Bay City Club making 19 points, while the Highland Park made 6. The former club were therefore declared victorious. The best time ever made in this country for 50 miles is 3:29; so considering the railroad bridge to be crossed, and about 10 miles of rough road the time made was good. Elwell, the first in, is a young man, six feet in height, who weighs 175 pounds. He has only been riding a short time, and is considered a phenomenal rider.
This was Frank D. Elwell's first race. Below, see a georeferencer map from 1876 showing San Jose to Gilroy. They would have ridden Monterey Road from San Jose to Gilroy, which nearly perfectly fits the road on the 1876 map, and still follows the railroad. The railroad bridge over the "swift, gravely stream" was where Monterey Road crosses Llagas creek, now slower due to the Chesbro dam.
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A Bicycle Feat. - T. Stevens wager - San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Apr 1884

=== A Bicycle Feat === 
T. Stevens, an English bicyclist will cross the Oakland ferry at 8 a. m. next Tuesday to ride his bicycle through to New York, and if he goes through all right will undertake the circuit of the world by overland route through Europe and Asia. He has a considerable wager on the time to be made between here and New York, but thinks it pure speculation, depending more on the weather, the roads and luck in general than a man's capacity for speed. He has an understanding with one or the leading publishing houses in London to write up the trip, with a view to bringing out a book for the English market, should the journey prove a success.
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A Bicycle Race. - Oakland Tribune, February 20, 1886

=== A Bicycle Race. ===
There will be a fifty-mile race between five members 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 club bugle, to be awarded the club whose representative wins the race. Thursday, W. J. Bowman, Jerome Churchill and 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, to the Lewelling road, to San Lorenzo; thence down the San Lorenzo road, via L. Stone, to starting point, a distance of eight and seven-eighths miles. One run, which was timed, was made in 34 minutes. The run will be an exciting one.
[This is an early, perhaps the first description of the San Leandro triangle course. - MF]
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A Bicycle Run. - Oakland Tribune, 11 May 1883

==== A Bicycle Run.  ====
The next club run of the Oakland Bicycle Club will be to San Jose on Saturday, May 19th, and the following day will be spent in and about the Garden City, the Club returning by train Sunday afternoon. Members desiring to ride the whole distance at a leisurely gait are at liberty to start as early as they choose, and will be overtaken by those starting later, but they are not to proceed beyond Milpitas until all participating arrive, so as to ride into San Jose together. Members unable to start in the morning can proceed to Milpitas by broad gauge train leaving San Francisco at 3 P. M. The start will be from the corner of Market and Thirteenth streets, Oakland, at 10 o'clock A. M. Necessary expenses of trip need not exceed $4, which includes return railroad fare from San Jose. Members of the Club are requested to appear in uniform, and new members who have not already procured uniforms are urged to do so at once.
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A Few Hints - San Jose weekly Mercury, Volume XVI, Number 46, 8 April 1869

=== A Few Hints ===
A writer in the New York Evening Post suggests a few cautions to be observed by those intending to buy a bicycle:
Up to the present time the velocipede in this country has been used almost entirely in cities, and but very few have given them a trial on our country roads, though there is no longer any doubt of their utility in rure. As yet no machine is provided with protectors to keep the dust and mud from off the back; and this is one of the most important improvements that can be made. For from actual experience it has been found that one's back very soon gets a coating of dust over it, which is thrown up by the hind wheel; while for the front wheel there should also be a protector (fastened to the support of the wheel, to turn with it), to prevent that wheel from rubbing upon the pantaloons, a serious annoyance. The saddle should be as far down between the wheels as possible without coming in contact with them, and the support for the front wheel, to which the handles are attached, should incline backwards, so that the center of the cross-bar at the top shall be at least nine inches from a perpendicular drawn through the centre of the front wheel. For it is obvious, and experience has proved it to be so, that more force can be exerted and a greater speed more easily attained if the body is thrown well back and the whole frame kept nearly straight, than if the legs are forced up and down in the position that one assumes while sitting in a chair. In this latter position he may press hard enough to raise him from the seat, but in the former the machine itself must give before he can be moved by pushing. The ingenious arrangements for supporting lanterns on some machines are a waste of time and expense: better some sort of clamps to secure a light umbrella in front when the sun shines hot, or if it rains, as well as clamps, or the like, for fastening a traveling bag on the rear, for we must look forward to next summer, when so many excursions and trips into the country will be made on these machines.
Before purchasing any machine, but particularly the cheaper ones, examine them closely yourself, or if not a judge of good mechanical workmanship, ask a friend to do it for you. Many defects are concealed by the coatings of paint, particularly in the castings and forgings; and a machine that is weak in any point is a dangerous one to use in fast riding. Be sure that every bolt is properly secured by nuts that cannot be shaken off; they should be riveted on to the bolt, for they will soon work loose if not so fastened. The crank should never be keyed on to the shaft but fastened on to a square head.
The manufacturers at present are pocketing immense receipts at the expense of the excited and uncautious public. A good machine can be made to order under the direction of almost any intelligent mechanic for a sum much less than is charged for any now in the market.
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