Photograph of rider atop a highwheel bicycle, circa 1890

ID: 2171

This file appears in: First Cycling Races Held on a Track in New Orleans 1887

Photograph of rider atop a highwheel bicycle, circa 1890

Louisiana Cycling Club Spokes Scrapbook, accession 98-62-L, Williams Research Center, The Historic New Orleans Collection

This file appears in: First Cycling Races Held on a Track in New Orleans 1887

First Cycling Races Held on a Track in New Orleans 1887

By Lacar Musgrove

In the 1880s, along with the rise of spectator and participatory sports, cycling races appeared in New Orleans. The city's first bicycle club, the New Orleans Bicycle Club, formed in 1881. All members belonged also to the League of American…