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#OTD Aug. 10, 1899 - Major Taylor, age 20, outsprints Tom Butler to win 1-mile world cycling championship in Montreal. 🌎🥇🚲"It was the first time that I had triumphed on foreign soil, and I thrilled as I heard the band strike up the 'Star Spangled Banner.'" 🇺🇸 #honorMajorTaylor

The MassBike team had a great time supporting the George Street Bike Challenge for Major Taylor this weekend! MassBike and CMRPC each had a staffer who raced in the event! We also teamed up to distribute bike-friendly information at the top of the climb.

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Fitchburg's link to Major Taylor FitchburgHistSociety We found no evidence that the Iver Johnson company itself named a bike model after its star rider Major Taylor, but it seems that a French importer did so, or intended to.

#OTD Aug. 2, 1901 - Major Taylor's hometown📰 reports he was kicked out of Vanderbilt hotel in Syracuse, NY. “He says that in all his travels ... he had never been more hurt personally in his treatment at a hotel.” Couldn’t get a room at the Yates either; ended up at St. Cloud.

#OTD Aug. 3, 1899, Chicago - Major Taylor lowers world record for 1 mile to 1'22"2/5 on a Stearns bike w/ Sager chainless gear behind steam-powered tandem. Taylor would lower the record again in November.

125 years ago on this date, Aug. 3 - "Worcester Whirlwind" Major Taylor on a mission, chasing motor-paced bicycle world record. His frenemy Eddie McDuffee had clocked a mile in 1 minute, 28 seconds at New Bedford, MA, five days earlier.

#OTD Aug. 4, 1898 - Waltham Mfg. Co. ad in Cycle Age dubbed Major Taylor "King of Sprinters." Yesterday at The Waltham Museum, collector Rick Wolfe showed an Orient chainless bike that appears to be the same model Taylor used to set world records in Philadelphia a few months later.

#OTD Aug. 9, 1899 - Expectations run high for Major Taylor on the eve of the cycling world championships in Montreal. Worcester newspaper 📰 says: "The Major is regarded as a sure winner in the mile professional championship." 🚴🏾‍♂️

#OTD Aug. 11, 1899 - Major Taylor's world championship is front-page news. In Montreal on Aug. 10, on his first trip outside the U.S., the 20-year-old bicyclist edged Tom Butler in the 1-mile race. 🚴🏿🥇🇺🇸 "I never felt so proud to be an American before" -- Taylor's autobiography

🥰Luciyan, YMCA of Central Mass camper & recipient of the cool blue Schwinn Bikes bike from this year's George Street Bike Challenge raffle. Champion cyclist Major Taylor was thrilled to join the Worcester YMCA in the 1890s, after he'd been barred from the Y in Indy because of his color.

Juxtaposition. #OTD Aug. 13, 1899, Major Taylor “rode like a demon” to win 2-mile World Championship race in Montreal. 🚴🏿 Next day, Montreal Gazette praised "the colored boy" in a 3½-column wrap-up of the Worlds. A filler item below the story reported “Another Negro Lynched” in U.S.

#OTD Aug. 18, 1900, Worcester Telegram reports on opening night at the Coliseum, across from East Park: Major Taylor rode a paced exhibition mile (6 laps) to set the time to beat for that track: 1:37 and 1/5. And he won a ½-mile race in "a hot finish." 4000 spectators

#OTD Aug. 22, 1893 - Major Taylor, at 14, got to dine w/ his idol, world champ A.A. Zimmerman, who was arriving in Indy to race. He also met "the Millbury wonder" Willie Windle. Taylor saw "no race prejudice" in them, marveling "that men can be champions & still be broad-minded."

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#OTD Sept. 8, 1899 - On a chainless bicycle, world champion Major Taylor wins a 5-mile pursuit & the half-mile open at Lake View Oval on Anna St., Worcester, "sprinting like a fiend ... very fast for the Oval."

#OTD Sept. 10, 1897 -Waverly, NJ- Major Taylor “wins in spite of all.” @bostonglobe explains: In 1-mile race, all the riders worked together in pairs, except Taylor, who had no ally. Still, Taylor maneuvered into position for final sprint, “winning in a most sensational manner.”

Tomorrow (Sept. 17) on "Good Morning America" Good Morning America, lots to unpack in Robert Turpin's book "Black Cyclists: The Race for Inclusion" (Illinois Press)

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