Too bad our country doesnt really respect or promote bicycling anymore.
Just like AP happily gave away it's boardwalk history, it also could care less
about
promoting and encouraging bicycling in a city that claims to be "bicycle
friendly"
I think the drug dealers on bikes are the only ones who benefit...
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "oakdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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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