The Bearings, Vol 9, No 24
Articles in this issue
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Manager Atkins camps the Rambler team at Waltham after Bliss falls in love with the metalithic track surface on the Fourth of July, ordering three tandems from Chicago and cancelling other race dates to prepare an attempt on Johnson's 1:56 world mile record the following Saturday — Bliss has been reported doing 1:59 in practice.
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Zimmerman makes his first appearance at the Buffalo Velodrome in Paris, beating English rider Edwards in two matched races for £500 a side — winning the one-kilometre on a late jump with the final third covered in 23.5 seconds to break the lap record, and taking the two-kilometre by a good length.
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French rider Constant Huret covers 457 miles and 1,612 yards in 24 hours at Paris, beating Shorland's world record by 32 miles and maintaining a pace of just under 19 miles per hour; English rival Lucas is knocked unconscious by a fall early in the race and cannot recover.
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Johnson and trainer Tom Eck are expelled from the Century Cycling Club of Syracuse on charges of ungentlemanly conduct and attempting to extort money, though The Bearings declares the expulsion a great injustice to innocent men; ten days are allowed for answers and the club threatens further LAW action.