So one of my co-workers was pulling a newspaper from 1897 and stumbled across an article titled "Century Rides at Night."
Ross Manly of Summitville, Indiana road 65 centuries in 1896, 14 of which were double centures, all at night. After working 10 hours he would hop on and pedal through the night. The article tells of Manyly out-pedaling "funny farmers" atempting to run him down with their wagons, an escaped raging bull, and numerous wiley dogs.
All this on what looked to me in the woodcut print to be a fixed-gear pathracer style bike.
This dude was awesome!
