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Coast

To descend a hill on a bicycle, either with feet off the pedals, AKA free wheeling, (sometimes with "legs over") or by using a coaster brake.
There are some sixty-eight miles of macadamized streets in Oakland, which are generally level, and, as the boys say, not "up hill both ways, as on this side of the bay." They have little chance to "coast," the Cemetery avenue, [Piedmont avenue] Clairmont avenue and Alcatraz avenue, out of town, being the only places where "legs over" can be indulged in. 
ON THE WHEEL. - Daily Alta California, 29 November 1885
The Claremont coast has been very popular with Oakland wheelmen lately, and several riders were enthusiastic enough to make three trips out and back from Oakland one evening last week.
Wheel Whirls. Thu, Apr 10, 1890 – Page 7 · Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) · Newspapers.com
The gravity railroad at Piedmont is an apology for the exhilarating feeling of a delightful coast down a good and not too steep grade.
WHEEL WHIRLS. - Oakland Tribune, 24 Sep 1890
Not a run, but rather a "climb and coast" this time was the programme of the Bay Citys yesterday. The 8 o'clock boat to Sausalito found the boys all ready for the ride, which they started at Ross Station, and walked and climbed to the very top of the mountain, about two hours from the station. A register in the book at the top, lunch, a survey of the really magnificent view from that point, the great ocean on one side, San Francisco and San Pablo bays on the other, with the pretty valleys at the base of the mountain, and then the descent. It may have taken two hours to reach the summit, but considerably less than half that time was necessary to get back. The scorchers went on via Corte Madera to Sausalito, while the others took the train at Ross Station.
Not a run, but rather a "climb and coast" - Mon, Nov 16, 1891, Page 3, San Francisco Chronicle
Monday morning I left Chular at 9 o'clock, passed through the towns of Gonzales, Soledad, and had lunch at a ranch. Then I pushed on through Cholone, arriving at the little town of Jolon at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The roads were very fine on this day's run, and the seven-mile coast into Jolon will be long remembered.
MANY MILES ON WHEEL. - An Acme Man Makes a Trip to San Diego. - Oakland Tribune, 02 May 1894
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From here on to San Luis Obispo the trip was monotonous and wearisome except the coast down the Cuesta grade. Luckily I had rubber strips on my tires so that I could use my foot as a brake. Without this protection my light racing tires would hardly have reached Mexico.
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"There are two separate inclines, both very steep from this side, but offering long, gradual coasts on the other. For three or four miles you wind slowly down the side of the mountain over hard, smooth roads. 
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
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Coaster brake

A coaster brake is a special rear hub for a bicycle, which performs two functions:
* It allows the bicycle to roll without forcing the pedals to turn. This is the "coaster" part. It is similar in function to a freewheel , but uses a different sort of mechanism to accomplish it.
* It is also a brake, operated by turning the pedals backwards.
Coaster brakes were invented in the 1890s, and have continued to be popular in some areas to this day.
Bicycle Coaster Brakes, Sheldon Brown
NEW MECHANISM IN THE HUB
Unique Plan for Governing the Speed of a Bicycle Saves Nearly Half the Exertion.
Knowing that the only improvements to be made in bicycles must be in the line of detail, the big makers are bending all their efforts in this direction. Chief among the features of the 1900 wheel will be what is known as the "free wheel," combining a coaster and brake. One of the exhibitors at the cycle and automobile show to be held at Madison Square garden, New York, during the week following January 20, will exhibit a hub in sections demonstrating a new attachment for bicycles. The hub is so constructed that by back pedaling on a wheel fitted with it a clutch is released in the hub and the rider can coast on his bicycle without removing his feet from the pedals. By back pedaling again another clutch is put into motion which acts as a brake and the bicycle can be controlled on the steepest hill. When the rider is through coasting a press sure on the pedals in the natural way releases the wheel and it can be driven the same as an ordinary wheel. The manufacturer claims a man can save the exertion of twenty miles out of every fifty by the use of this invention.
NEW MECHANISM IN THE HUB - Omaha Daily Bee, 14 Jan 1900
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Columbia Square Wheelmen

=== Location ===
Columbia Square, San Francisco, CA
=== Members ===
* M. D. Garratt
* E. C. Richter
* Robert R. Russ
* Albert H. Russ
* A. G. Russ Jr.
* H. A. Wegener
* W. B. Wegener
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The Columbia-square Wheelmen have organized with the following officers: President, E. C. Richter; Vice-President, William B. Wegener; Secretary of Treasury. A. G. Russ Jr.; Road Officers - Captain, Robert R. Russ; First Lieutenant, M. D. Garratt; First Bugler, H. A. Wegener; Second Bugler, A. G. Russ Jr.
The success of the club is assured by the fact that it organized with twenty-four charter members. It is intent on placing some of its racing men on the track to compete in the Olympic Club races in May.
The new clubrooms of the organization are a marvel of neatness.
Wheeling. - The Columbia-square Wheelmen have organized - The San Francisco Examiner, 16 Apr 1888
The century run, made by four of the Columbia League Wheelmen a few days ago, was full of incidents. The four "100 mile per day runners of the wheel" were W. B. Wegener, M. D. Garratt, A. H. Russ and Robert Russ. Neither one brought the "laurels" home excepting the last named of the four, who was fortunate enough to reach Oakland on his wheel, though darkness overtook him. W. Wegener would have carried the laurels to the city also, but owing to a mishap to his wheel Menlo Park was, therefore, destined to be ample for that day. Garratt and A. Russ loitered too much on the road to cyclometer that distance in one day (San Jose), so had to be content in making it in two days, which they heroically claim to have done. The last which the twain saw of Bob Russ on their down trip was at Menlo Park, when he began to spurt, which lengthened the distance too much for the twain followers. San Jose was reached at 11:40 A. M. by the single individual, whereas, Garratt and A. Russ passed the electric mast at 1:10 P. M. After registering at the hotel, it now being 3 o'clock, the terrible return trip was begun by the Alameda side against a perfect gale. When San Lorenzo was reached total darkness reigned and stiff breeze was blowing, which so disheartened the twain enthusiastic 'cyclers that the sponge was thrown up, and they returned to San Francisco by train on the following day.
The Wheel. - San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Apr 1888
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Columbia square

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Early chronicler Frank Soulé noted in his 1854 Annals of San Francisco, "There seems no provision … for a public park-the true lungs of a large city." Soulé scolded that every square vara (the Spanish unit of measure still in use at the time) was slated for building lots. In addition to Portsmouth Square, San Francisco's original nucleus, only three squares had been planned as recreation space for the town. The three earliest maps of the city--by surveyors Jean-Jacques Vioget (1839), Jasper O'Farrell (1847), and William M. Eddy (1849)--had projected only two additional open spaces: Union Square and Washington Square, both gifts to the city in 1850 from John White Geary, the first mayor of newly American San Francisco. Columbia Square was a third. Later, in 1855, the Western Addition was planned with seven large squares. San Francisco swelled from a population of some 1,000 in 1848 to more than 149,400 by 1870. Rapid growth left little time for planning parks.
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The "Night in South Side," held in Columbia square last night, was very much unlike the recent "Night in Venice” held in Belvedere, save for 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, from Sixth to Seventh, last night, were there for business.
A large platform was crowded with willing speakers early in the evening. Japanese lanterns hung from the neighboring house tops and were strung down the
street; huge sizzling rockets were sent soaring to the sky at regular intervals; a big brass band played merry tunes while little children danced on the sidewalk, and the members of a score of bicycle 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. 
AN APPEAL FOR BITUMEN. - San Francisco Chronicle, 06 Sep 1895
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Corte Madera

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Crescent Athletic Club Wheelmen

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Berkeley, CA
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The Crescent Athletic Club Wheelmen of Berkeley will hold a one mile track race for club members at the Oakland Trotting Park on Sunday, August 4. The club should be warned not to give any prizes for this event, as it would be a violation of a rule which the League of American Wheelmen is strict in enforcing and would result in all the riders being suspended for thirty or sixty days. To-morrow the club will have a run to Haywards to see the Acme road race.
THE WHEELMEN. - San Francisco Call, 27 July 1895
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Crow's canyon

Now called Crow Canyon road
Crow Canyon was named after the Crow family that came there in the 1860’s. The Crow family were staunch
unionists and pro Lincoln. Many of the settlers in the San Ramon Valley were from the border states and tended
to be confederate sympathizers.
On July 4, 1864, there was a holiday picnic in San Ramon. At this picnic, someone began reading the Declaration
of Independence. The Crow family was patriotic but not well educated. They created a near riot over this reading,
believing it to be secessionist propaganda. 
SAN RAMON VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY November 2012
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Cycle Board of Trade

The Cycle Board of Trade was a local organization of bicycle businesses that performed several functions; advocacy, organization, price protection, management of events and cycling infrastructure, etc. There was also a national Cycle Board of Trade. The local one was originally known as the "San Francisco Cycle Board of Trade."
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Cycle Men Banquet. - The San Francisco Call, July 21, 1899

=== Cycle Men Banquet. ===
The members of the Cycle Board of Trade sat down to their annual banquet last night at the Viticultural restaurant on Pine street. The affair was a particularly enjoyable one, spiced with speech and song, and the members of the board entered heartily into the spirit of the occasion.
James H. Hamilton officiated as toast-master and "Jimmie," as the boys famillarly term him, made everybody who sat around the big table sing a song or tell the sad story of their lives.
The following were present: James H. Hamilton, Frank McLaughlan, Joseph Holle, W. J. Kenney, H. Nagle, Edward Rener, G. W. Peyton, J. W. Cornell, C. F. Martwell, W. B. Morill and M. C. Baker. The following bicycle companies were also represented: White Sewing Machine Company, Pacific Novelty and Shipping Company, Optic & Brown, Manson Cyclery, Morgan & Wright, Leavitt & Bill, E. C. Stearns & Co., Devany, Hopkins & Co.; Pope Manufacturing Company, Goodrich & Co., Yosemite Cycle Company and Obenhauser & Hurley.
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Cycling Club Holds Meeting - San Francisco Examiner - May 25, 1943

=== Cycling Club Holds Meeting ===
Eighteen of the original four hundred members of the California Cycling Club held their annual dinner last week.
Sergt. Charles J. Birdsall, who entered the San Francisco Police Department forty-one years ago as a speed cycle policeman, acted as sergeant-at-arms. Birdsall's first beat was the Golden Gate panhandle to Ocean Beach.
The following members attended and can still cycle without any "A, B or C cards" and enjoy a run through Golden Gate Park once a month:
Robert A. Coulter, George Ohimus, Eddie L. Egelberg, Harry Mayo, Charles H. Brady, Charles J. Birdsall, Hugo Buttgenback, William H. Reid, Fred Hansen, Fred Striven, Albert Strei, Thomas H. White, A. McAdam, Albert Alcayaga, James Wall, Fred S. Nason and George Burnett.
The California Cycling Club was organized in the summer of 1890 with their headquarters at Twenty-second and Folsom Sts.
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Cycling West

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At last we are to have a cycling paper on the Pacific Coast worthy of the name, and the so-called class journals now in existence will have to take to the background. Cycling West, of Denver, a paper with an enormous circulation and one of the newsiest weeklies published, intends to open a branch office in the Donohoe building in this City and will add a dozen or more pages, which will be devoted exclusively to the Pacific Coast. The two cycling papers now issued here and at San Jose lack news, are never up to date and have met with but little favor among the wheelmen. The advent of such a live journal as Cycling West will therefore be pleasing news, and prominent cyclists speak of its coming as a great thing for the sport on this coast.
THE WHEELMEN. - The San Francisco Call, 09 Nov 1895
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Cyclists of San Jose

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=== Place ===
San Jose, CA
=== Emblem ===
=== Members ===
* J. E. Alexander
* J. L. Bothwell
* Wilbur J. Edwards
* Oswald Granicher
* Hensill
* George A. Morrill
* F. S. Munn
* George H. Osen
* Clarence N. Ravlin
* Schroeder
Oswald Granicher, secretary-treasurer of the California Division, League of American Wheelmen, and friends, members of the new club, the Cyclists of San Jose, went over on the 8 o'clock boat to Tiburon, there taking the train to San Rafael. They intended to wheel from San Rafael to Santa Rosa.
There ought to be plenty of room in San Jose for two clubs. Its perfectly level, smooth roads certainly offer every inducement for a man to become a "bicycle rider."
The Wheelmen. - San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr 1891
Granicher, Schroeder and Hensill of the Cyclists, San Jose, rode from San Jose to Santa Cruz yesterday, via Hotel de Redwood and Soquel. They made the trip in seven hours.
The wheelmen. - Cyclists of San Jose - San Francisco Chronicle, 08 Jun 1891
At that time he was a member of the Garden City Wheelmen, which was started in 1886. This club combined with the San Jose Cyclers and formed the Garden City Cyclers.
A LOS ANGELES WHEELMAN. - Fox Will Represent Southern California at the Fair Races. - The San Francisco Examiner, 28 Apr 1894
At that time he was a member of the Garden City Wheelmen, organized in 1886. This club combined with the San Jose Cyclers and formed the Garden City Cyclers. 
NEARING A MILE A MINUTE. - The San Francisco Examiner - February 11, 1895
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D. E. Whitman

Daniel Elmore Whitman 30 July 1874 – 20 July 1936
=== Clubs ===
* Olympic Club Wheelmen
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At Santa Monica there was a large crowd of people gathered to witness the finish. The riders were dusty and begrimed as they came in, and each hastened away to take a plunge in the swimming-tank before sitting down to the dinner prepared for them. John Gardiner came first, and he was followed closely by D. E. Whitman and Will Rodriguez.
The judges afterward ruled Whitman out of the race, as he had misrepresented his experience as a rider by saying that he had handled a wheel only six months, when there were cyclers who claimed that they know that he had ridden a wheel for the past four years. Upon the plea that he had ridden only six months the handicapper gave Whitman a ten-minute start, and in view of after developments he was ruled out.
THE GERMAN WINS. - Emil Ulbricht Makes the Best Time. - The Los Angeles Times, 05 Jul 1894
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The picture accompanying this article shows three of the fastest and best known class A riders in California, representing three of the largest cycling clubs — Percy R. Mott, Acme Club Wheelmen; Dan T. Whitman (of Los Angeles), Olympic Club Wheelmen, and Floyd A. McFarland, San Jose Road Club. The picture gives the impression of an actual race - Mott's side glance at Whitman's wheel, the latter's determined look, and McFarland with that celebrated hump on his back.
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
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D. L. Burke

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* Familysearch: David Lewis Burke 15 March 1864 – 27 July 1940
* Ancestry: David Lewis Burke - 1864–1940 - BIRTH 15 MAR 1864 • Pennsylvania - DEATH 27 JUL 1940 • Los Angeles, California
Brother of W. A. Burke
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For the next race, a quarter of a mile dash, W. S. Wing, Jas. W. Lancaster, J. Phil Percival, P. L. Abel and D. L. Burke were entered, but only the last-named rider appeared, and he went over the distance in the comparatively slow lime of 43 1/4 seconds.
The half-mile dash was another interesting event, the following entries having been made: W. S. Wing, E. Cole, Jas. W. Lancaster, J. Phil Fercival, P. L. Abel and D. L. Burke. Of these, only three came to scratch, Burke, Lancaster and Cole, and after running 200 yards Cole retired, leaving the finish between his two competitors. Burke had no difficulty in distancing his advergary, and the blackboard showed a record of 1.26 1/4 as he rode back to the dressing-room.
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For the one-mile open race entries were made by T. Romero, George F. Martineau, Fred Corey, W. S. Wing, James W. Lancaster, D. L. Burke, J. Phil Percival and and Frank Scheidler, but only Martineau, Lancaster, Burke and Scheidler were on hand. It was an easy event for Burke, and he won in 2:52 1/4, Lancaster finishing second, Scheidler third and Martineau fourth.
THE WHEELMEN. - Successful Celebration of the Annual Meet. - Los Angeles Herald, 31 May 1889
D. L. Burke, the champion of the State, first began to ride in Los Angeles in 1889. The State meet was held in Los Angeles in that year and Burke captured three firsts out of four starts. Since that time he has won innumerable races and holds all the Southern California records, as well as many of the State records. Last year at Riverside Burke beat Waller and Foster of San Francisco. In the mile race Burke cut the coast record from 2:36 1-5 to 2:33. The southern champion attended the league meet at Stockton last year and swept everything before him, lowering the coast records for a quarter, half and one mile. On Saturday following the meet Burke rode a quarter of a mile from a standing start in 33 seconds, and the half in 1:09. He also has a three mile record of 8:30. 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.
OUR CYCLE CHAMPIONS. - The Fastest Riders in the State. - San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Apr 1893
"The presentation of medals to the successful contestant in each of the events of the recent intercollegiate athletic field day took place in the Aristotelian hall of the University of Southern California on the evening of Washington's birthday. The hall was filled to the corridors with students and their friends. While the crowd was assembling the appearance of each favorite was the signal for applause. David L. Burke, the coast champion bicyclist, was present to cheer for the U. S. C. He had two young ladies of University in charge.
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