The Bicycle. - Mon, Jan 10, 1887 - Page 3 - The San Francisco Examiner

 

Mon, Jan 10, 1887 – 3 · The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) · Newspapers.com

The Bicycle. 

Stevens has arrived at last.

As there is no track available for the 22d of February, the Bay City Wheelmen have been compelled to postpone their race meet.

A heavy rain that would keep the local riders inactive for one month would be of the greatest I benefit to bicycling this season. It would harden the roads and put them in condition that they would retain for many months, and relieve the riders of the high pressure they have kept up for a year past.

The local clubs were well represented at San Jose on New Year's Day. Among the riders who made the trip were Fahrbach, Adcock, Cummings, Smyth, Robinson, Meeker, Turner, Cook, Milroy, Biederman, Serries, Avery, Euler and ethers.

The tandems at the Park are not in use at present, too much scorching being the cause.

Elwell "coasted” Mount Tamalpais last Sunday. The distance is about nine miles. He took one fall, but did not injure himself. He rode half way up and walked the rest.

I previously shared the above article in this post, to which many of the above links point. I'm sharing it on its own because the obituary notice for Frank D. Elwell in the Oct 25, 1955 Oakland Tribune, linked here states that he was the “first cyclist up Mt. Tamalpais." I'm pretty sure C. T. Morrison and W. E. Nachtrieb had bicycles (penny farthings, like Elwell) almost two years before.