The Best American and English Path and Road Cycle Records

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• American Amateur Bicycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  Path records from a quarter-mile to 50 miles, compiled to 1 October 1885: Fred. Russ Cook's 37 3/5s quarter at San Francisco, Geo. M. Hendee's half, three-quarter and mile marks at St. Louis, and M. V. J. Webber's unbroken run of Springfield records from 3 to 20 miles. The table runs on over the page with N. H. Van Sicklen at Chicago (21-25 miles) and C. Collier and L. H. Johnson's New York marks of February 1880 out to 50 miles in 3h 09m 45 1/4s.
• American Amateur Tricycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  R. Cripps holds every mark from the quarter-mile (43 3/5s) to the mile (2m 53 4/5s) at Springfield, Percy Furnivall the 2- to 5-mile records, and A. G. Powell of Philadelphia the 6- to 10-mile marks, 10 miles in 38m 05 2/5s on 27 August 1885.
• American Safety Bicycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  Every safety-bicycle mark from a quarter-mile in 41 4/5s to 5 miles in 16m 04s belongs to A. P. Engleheart, riding a Kangaroo at Springfield and Hartford in September 1885.
• American Tandem Tricycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  English and Cripps hold the quarter-mile through 3 miles at Springfield on 8 September 1885; the 4-mile mark of 13m 39 3/5s is shared by Furnivall and Cripps with Lambert and English, and Furnivall and Cripps also take the 5 miles in 16m 49 4/5s.
• American Tandem Bicycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  C. H. Miller and F. R. Brown own the whole table, from a quarter-mile in 45 4/5s to 3 miles in 10m 14 1/5s, made at Springfield in May 1885 and September 1884.
• Amateur Bicycle Road Records (opens in a new tab)

  W. A. Rhodes's 25 miles in 1h 45m at Lynn and 50 miles in 3h 32m 20 2/3s at Boston, S. G. Whittaker's 100 miles in 9 hours flat, and 24-hour rides of 233 1/4 miles by A. A. McCurdy and 203 1/8 miles by H. D. Corey on a Safety; Cola E. Stone's 8h 28m hundred is footnoted as the Canadian record, made by an American.
• Bicycle Run and Ride Records (opens in a new tab)

  Four short marks split between W. J. Foster (quarter-mile in 1m 07s and three-quarters in 3m 37 1/5s at Hartford) and C. B. Ripley (half-mile in 2m 04 2/5s at Springfield and the mile in 4m 23 1/5s at Hartford).
• Amateur Tricycle Road Records (opens in a new tab)

  Three Boston road marks: John Williams's 16 miles in 1h 09m 10s, Will. R. Pitman's 100 miles in 11h 30m, and W. H. Huntley's 191 miles inside 24 hours on 9 August 1885.
• Tandem Tricycle Road Records (opens in a new tab)

  George D. Gideon and Abram G. Powell of Philadelphia hold both marks, 10 miles in 38m 15s and 20 miles in 1h 25m, each set on 2 August 1885.
• Amateur Bicycle Without Hands (opens in a new tab)

  Hands-off records: F. H. Brigham's quarter-mile in 45 3/4s at Providence, C. H. Chickering's half and three-quarter miles at Springfield, H. S. Wollison's mile in 3m 00 2/5s, and F. F. Ives's 2 miles in 6m 39s at New Haven.
• American Professional Bicycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  Professional path marks from a quarter-mile (Fred. Wood, 36 4/5s) to 20 miles (John Brooks, 1h 02m 21s), shared between Wood, Richard Howell, Wm. M. Woodside and Brooks at Springfield and Washington in 1884-85.
• American Professional Records (opens in a new tab)

  The long-distance professional tables: 21 to 50 miles by Wm. Woodside at Chicago on 8 December 1884, and 51 to 100 miles by J. S. Prince there on 28 October 1883, 100 miles in 6h 50m 55s. The section continues overleaf with John S. Prince's 125 and 150 miles, W. C. Young's 175 to 250 miles in New York City, and the 12- to 72-hour marks of Prince and Louise Armaindo, who covered 843 miles in 72 hours.
• American Professional Tricycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  H. W. Higham of Washington holds every professional tricycle mark listed, from a mile in 3m 24s through 5 miles in 19m 21s to 20 miles in 1h 17m 23s, all in August 1885.
• American Professional Safety Records (opens in a new tab)

  R. Howell holds all eight safety marks, from a quarter-mile in 43s to 5 miles in 15m 36 2/5s, made at Springfield on 8 and 25 September 1885.
• English Amateur Bicycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  The English amateur path table, opening with H. A. Speechley's 39s quarter-mile, M. Webber's mile in 2m 39 2/5s and G. L. Hillier's 3- to 5-mile marks, then R. H. English's Crystal Palace records out to 32 miles. It continues for two more pages: M. H. Jephson's 1882 marks to 50 miles, F. R. Fry's 55 to 100 miles (100 in 5h 50m 05 2/5s) and G. L. Hillier's 101 to 145 miles set at Crystal Palace on 29 September 1884.
• English Amateur Tricycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  A. J. Wilson, P. T. Letchford and Percy Furnivall hold the short marks at Crystal Palace on 11 July 1885, M. J. Lowndes the 4 to 10 miles at Surbiton, and R. H. English, George Gatehouse and H. J. Webb the remainder out to 32 miles in 1h 58m 54 1/2s.
• English Professional Bicycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  H. O. Duncan's quarter and half-miles at Leicester in August 1885, R. Howell's three-quarter and mile marks, John Keen's 2 miles from Cambridge in 1879, and Fred. Lees's long run of Leicester records from 3 to 20 miles, with T. Battensby, Keen and Fred. Wood closing the table at 50 miles in 2h 47m 20s.
• English Professional Bicycle Records Cont. (opens in a new tab)

  The hours-and-distance half of the professional table: F. J. Lees's 20 miles 509 yards in the hour and 186 miles in 12 hours, J. Battensby's 211 miles in 14 hours, C. Terront's 220 miles in 15 hours and 262 in 18, and six-day marks of 852, 1007 and 1136 miles by Lees and George Edlin at ten, twelve and fourteen hours a day.
• English Professional Safety Bicycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  T. Battensby holds nearly every safety mark from 1 to 18 miles at Leicester on 2 May 1885, with J. Grose taking 19 miles at Crystal Palace and R. Howell 20 miles in 1h 03m 05 1/5s; a footnote gives Grose's hour record of 19 miles 215 yards.
• English Professional Tricycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  The whole tricycle table was made by Fred. Lees at Leicester on 20 May 1884, from a quarter-mile in 54s to 20 miles in 1h 07m 15s.
• English Amateur Tandem Tricycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  P. Furnivall and G. Gatehouse hold every mark from the quarter-mile in 41s to 5 miles in 14m 22s, all made at Cambridge on 15 June 1885.
• English Amateur Sociable Tricycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  Mr and Mrs J. S. Smith hold the quarter-mile, mile and 10-mile sociable marks at Crystal Palace, while A. J. Wilson and A. J. Pullin took everything from 2 to 9 miles at Alexandra Palace on 31 May 1884.
• English Amateur Safety Bicycle Records (opens in a new tab)

  A. P. Engleheart's mile in 2m 55 4/5s at Alexandra Palace plus his 3 miles and 10 miles (32m 39 3/5s) at Crystal Palace, with John Lee's 2 miles at Brighton in 5m 59 1/4s.
• English Amateur Bicycle Record by Hours (opens in a new tab)

  R. H. English holds both hour marks: 20 miles 560 yards in one hour at Crystal Palace on 11 September 1884, and 37 miles 155 yards in two hours on 18 July 1885.
• English Amateur Bicycle Road Records (opens in a new tab)

  George Smith's 34 miles in 2h 07m and 100 miles in 7h 11m 10s, J. H. Adams's 266 1/4 miles in 24 hours, James Lenox's Land's End to John O'Groats (nearly 900 miles) in 6 days 16 hours 10 minutes, and H. R. Goodwin's End-to-End and back to London, 2054 1/2 miles in nineteen days.
• English Amateur Tricycle Road Records (opens in a new tab)

  H. J. Webb's 50 miles in 3h 39m and 100 miles in 7h 35m, C. H. R. Gossett's 231 3/4 miles and Mrs. Allen's 200 miles in 24 hours, and Lawrence Fletcher's Land's End to John O'Groats in 8 days 11 hours 45 minutes.
• English Amateur Tandem Tricycle Road Records (opens in a new tab)

  Three tandem road marks: 100 miles in 8h 11m 45s by C. H. R. Gossett and A. Bird, 134 miles in 12 hours by Gossett and Nicholson, and 231 miles in 24 hours by A. Bird and T. R. Marriott.
• English Sociable Tricycle Road Records (opens in a new tab)

  H. N. Corsellis and H. J. Webb hold both sociable road marks, 25 miles in 1h 59m and 50 miles in 4h 29m, both ridden on 16 July 1883.
• Bicycle Records - Flying Start (opens in a new tab)

  The closing two-line table of flying-start marks at Crystal Palace: G. L. Hillier's quarter-mile in 35 2/5s on 3 July 1884 and C. E. Liles's mile in 2m 44s on 26 July 1883.