The Bearings, Vol 12, No 15
Articles in this issue
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Arthur Gardiner, paced by two quad teams at Fountain Ferry, rides a world record mile with intermediate times through three-quarters of 1:15-2/5 and a final time of 1:42-2/5, prompting frantic cheering from the grandstand crowd.
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C.R. Coulter follows Gardiner's mile with a world record in the standing-start three-quarters of a mile, clocking 1:18 flat despite a slight late headwind, and the pair of champions retire for the day fully satisfied.
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Peter Berlo's Humber team, including nine riders and a quintuplet machine, surprises the camp by appearing overnight and immediately begins training, creating a tense rivalry with Windle's team that arrived simultaneously.
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The racing men orchestrate an elaborate Hallowe'en rampage at the park, suspending chairs from treetops, placing a calf in the grandstand, hauling a family carriage onto a steep rooftop, and moving a heavy wagon inside the gatehouse.
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A.F. Senn sets a professional two-mile flying-start record at 4:29, while Caperton and Kindevatter record 11:14 for five miles tandem unpaced, and S.C. Cox rides an unpaced third-mile in 42-2/5 seconds as a Class A record claim.
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Otto Ziegler, although frustrated by pacing slower than he wanted, still manages to reduce the standing-start two-thirds-mile record to 1:14-2/5, with observers noting he would have gone several seconds faster with better quad teamwork.
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Tom Eck oversees a remarkable variety of equipment at Fountain Ferry including fifteen different wheel makes and five tire brands, and must juggle training schedules and rider complaints about unequal attention with practiced impartiality.