'Cyclistic. 10 Jun 1884, Tue
San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco, California)
Newspapers.com
'Cyclistic.
While Sunday's rain was to many an unpleasant dampener, to the wheelmen it was most welcome. The roads, which were becoming dusty and heavy, will now in a day or two become quite fine and smooth.
The rain, however, interfered with a run to Belinont which had been arranged to take place on Sunday by H. C. Eggers, accompanied by members of the local club. It has been postponed until the return of Captain Eggers from Fresno.
An extensive trip will be begun in a few days by A. Wapple and friend. If the present programme is carried out they will ride to San Jose, Mount Hamilton, Gilroy, Hollister, San Juan, Pajaro, Santa Cruz and Monterey, thence to Marysville via San Jose, Haywards, Niles, Lathrop and Sacramento. The return to this city from Marysville will be made upon roads located further west, so as to obviate the necessity of riding over the same road twice.
A match between Gibson and and Finkler is being talked of, but nothing has been settled.
Mr. Moore has been riding his tricycle in the park lately and has been the object of some curiosity, for his machine is the only one on this coast which is convertible into a sociable, enabling a lady to ride with him.
William Riddell is in receipt of a British mail which looks very speedy and serviceable. It is the last of the high-class wheels placed on the English market, containing tangential spokes, dropped handle bars and hollow rims.
Mark Twain rides a bicycle.
The greatest distance ever ridden on a bicycle without dismounting is 230 miles, and was accomplished by Higham at Agricultural Hall, London, March 18, 1880.
The next event of importance is a grand three-days' bicycle tournament at Philadelphia on the 17th, 18th and 19th insts. Prizes to the amount of $5000 will be given.
A ten-mile race took place at Washington, D. C., May 28th, between Prince, Woodside, Higham and Morgan, for a divided purse of $100. Prince took the lead on the first mile and then dropped to second or third place for the eight succeeding miles and kept there until the last quarter of the tenth mile, when he rushed in with a magnificent burst of speed and won the race.
Thomas Stevens, who left San Francisco on a bicycle, April 22d, with the avowed intention of crossing the continent on his machine, arrived at Laramie on Sunday last. He reports the trip as "a tough one," the country being practically roadless, so far as bicycling is concerned. He went through Callforula in continual rain and crossed the Sierra Nevada with ten feet of snow on the level, in order to have the advantage of the cool weather in crossing the Nevada deserts. He has carried his bicycle for miles through deep sand and rain-soaked adobe lands, where it was impossible to wheel it. He has had to wade across streams, and at one point had to swim the Humboldt river and float his steel horse across on pieces of driftwood.
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