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Created 05/31/2012 - 11 months ago
On this day in 1868, a small group of cyclists gathered at the fountains in Paris' Parc de St Cloud, then at 3pm raced their machines to the park fence and back again - a distance of 1.2km on gravel. It was, so far as anybody knows, the world's very first organised bike race (the world's first un...
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On this day in 1868, the world's first bike race took place in Paris - & was won by an Englishman http://t.co/CxQh2fS1 #procycling #cycling