Morgan Fletcher :vbike:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@clhenrick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>clhenrick</span></a></span> my friend Dan is (was) also racing in that one, and I thought another friend too, but I don't see him in the tracker.</p><p>The biggest race in the calendar, for about fifteen years during the big bike boom of the 1890s used to be the annual 100-mile bicycle race around the bay. Back then, nearly every road was dirt, bikes had one, fixed gear, and the race was run as a team race, with ten racers riding ten-mile relays for each team. It was huge!</p><p><a href="https://www.wooljersey.com/wiki/100-mile_relay_race_from_San_Francisco_to_Oakland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wooljersey.com/wiki/100-mile_r</span><span class="invisible">elay_race_from_San_Francisco_to_Oakland</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.wooljersey.com/wiki/WELLS_WON_FOR_THE_BAY_CITYS._-_For_the_Second_Time_This_Club_Gets_the_Relay_Cup._100-mile_relay_race_-_The_San_Francisco_Call,_13_Apr_1896" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wooljersey.com/wiki/WELLS_WON_</span><span class="invisible">FOR_THE_BAY_CITYS._-_For_the_Second_Time_This_Club_Gets_the_Relay_Cup._100-mile_relay_race_-_The_San_Francisco_Call,_13_Apr_1896</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.wooljersey.com/wiki/Remember_When..._-_Oakland_Tribune,_21_Apr_1934" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wooljersey.com/wiki/Remember_W</span><span class="invisible">hen..._-_Oakland_Tribune,_21_Apr_1934</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2017/09/san-francisco-call-volume-73-number-159.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/20</span><span class="invisible">17/09/san-francisco-call-volume-73-number-159.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/biketooter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biketooter</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sfbayhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sfbayhistory</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/sanfranciscohistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sanfranciscohistory</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/oaklandhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oaklandhistory</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/bicycleracing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bicycleracing</span></a></p>