“As I could not make the motor work, I concluded on the morning of July 5 to make myself work. I started to pedal in to New York.”
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120th Anniversary of George Wyman’s Coast to Coast Ride – Part 23
If a motorcycle shop has to close what business would you be happy to see in its place…
120th Anniversary of George Wyman’s Coast to Coast Ride – Part 22
I worked until 11 p.m., and then gave it up until morning. I realized then that the motor and bicycle were suffering from crystallization.
120th Anniversary of George Wyman’s Coast to Coast Ride – Part 21
They were in business until the ’20’s with varying levels of success in racing and risque scantily-clad female advertising
120th Anniversary of George Wyman’s Coast to Coast Ride – Part 20
The price of gasoline continued to decrease as I got East. In the morning of that day at Ligonier I had paid 10 cents for half a gallon; at Butler I got the same quantity for 8 cents, and at Swanton the price was 7 cents.
120th Anniversary of George Wyman’s Coast to Coast Ride – Part 19
“I was on fine stone roads by this time, and only 25 miles from Chicago. I pedaled Into the Windy City in five and a half hours the next day, June 19. As may be imagined, I was tired after pedaling 25 miles, and not only physically weary, but I was mentally dejected because of the accident to my motor.”
120th Anniversary of George Wyman’s Coast to Coast Ride – Part 18
Imagine a man so anxious to ride a bicycle over railroad ties that he would lie awake at night planning how to prevaricate to the section men!
120th Anniversary of George Wyman’s Coast to Coast Ride – Part 16
The brick pavement of the Council Bluffs streets is superior to anything I ever saw before and I have seen some fine roads in *Australia and other countries. It is laid with such scientific method and such consummate art that you might think you were riding on a board floor when rolling over it.
120th Anniversary of George Wyman’s Coast to Coast Ride – Part 17
At Woodbine I concluded to take to the railroad tracks to escape the affectionate hugging of the gumbo mud and the objurgations of the farmers, a number of whom told me I “ought to keep that thing off the road altogether.”
120th Anniversary of George Wyman’s Coast to Coast Ride – Part 15
One more cyclometer was sacrificed on the ride from Ogallala to Maxwell, snapped off when I had a fall on the road. I do not mention falls, as a rule, as it would make the story one long monotony of falling off and getting on again. Ruts, sand, sticks, stones and mud, all threw me dozens of times.
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