Little known that many bicycle races were held in AP back in the late
1890's
1. SOME LIVELY BICYCLE RACES AT ASBURY PARK (1893). Rain Made the
Track Heavy and Prevented Fast Time or Record Racing -- The Champion
Secures Two Events, but Was Too Heavily Handicapped in the Mile Event --
Riding in Grotesque Costumes for Watermelons Which the Winners Ate on
the Track.
2.Killed at ASbury Park by fish wagon: August 1897. Howard Fisher of
Philadelphia.....He was stopping at the St. James Hotel...and while
riding a wheel near the north asbury station, he was run down by H.G
Grant's fish wagon. One of the shafts struck him and sent him to the
ground.....he died that night.
3. In 1903, one of the conventions was a bicycle show. That was to go
with the new gravel road of Ocean Ave for auto sprint races and more...
Asbury and Bicycles.
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