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Title: The Wheel and cycling trade review
Year: 1888 (1880s)
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Subjects: Cycling Bicycles Cyclists
Publisher: New York : Wheel and Cycling Trade Review
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curate, the first two menfalling off between the first and second tapes.Measurers with long tape measures speedilytook the distance from the nearest tape atwhich the contestants stopped and the spec-tators crowded about to gain a glance at thename plate of the machine. In the first trial Fred Royce, the ex-New-Jersey crack racing man, took the bun with6,258.2 feet, a distance which was not equalleduntil the third trial, when it was tied by bigHugh Janeway, the ex-Princeton footballplayer, who weighs 226 pounds. The windfreshened after this and the distance was notequalled. The twelve men who coasted the greatestdistance in the first trial then returned to thesummit and started again. The six winnersin this trial were then restarted, ending finallywith a sifting down to three men—a trial thatwas conclusive and emphatic. Heavy-weight Janeway was the favorite.His immense weight and massive proportionsgave every one the impression that he wouldprove the winner, and he did hold more than
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idea. It will be the name of your wheel andnot yourself that will float from ear to ear asthe winner. Coasting contests have been few and far be-tween in the metropolitan district of late.They were held semi-occasion ally when thehigh wheel, the Springfield Roadster and theEagle reigned supreme, but never before wasa contest of the hill-sliding variety promotedon such an extensive scale as the MetropolitanAssociations. To begin with, the hill selected was ideal.It started on the second ridge of the OrangeMountains. The range known as the OrangeMountains, by-the-way, would not be called amountain by a Coloradoan, or by a Swisschamois-chaser; it would be, as the Englishsay, a small pimple, but in the Jerseymansnomenclature they go as mountains. The roaddescends the mountain at an acute angle. Itis macadamized, smooth, and at the summit apleasing birdseye view of charming woodlandis at command. At the bottom the road dipsunder a railroad bridge, and then the coasterascends a short ascent

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