George Wyman
George Wyman
George Wyman is what I call a biker's biker. Read on and get to know what this amazing man accomplished in 1903.
"In 1903, George Wyman became the first motorcyclist to make a transcontinental trip across America. In fact, he was the first ever to make the trip by means of a motorized vehicle. Wyman’s trip was made on a 1.25-horsepower, 90cc California motorcycle designed by Roy Marks. Wyman’s arduous journey, which started in San Francisco on May 16, took 50 days and ended in New York City on July 6.
Wyman’s 3,800-mile journey was sponsored by and covered in a series of first-person accounts titled “Across America on a Motor Bicycle” by the short-lived Motorcycle Magazine, the first magazine in the country devoted solely to motorcycling. Inexplicably, the historic ride did not receive the kind of newspaper coverage it warranted along the route and was largely forgotten for decades until it was "rediscovered" by a dedicated group of writers and researchers for Road Rider Magazine in the late 1970s."
Source:
http://home.ama-cycle.org/forms/muse...age.asp?id=296
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