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Racing
The 1890s made the bicycle the fastest racing machine most Americans ever saw, and the valley shared the era: South Bend organized its Cycle Club in 1896, a fact that stands in the South Bend record. The trails section of this history already prints the bicycle's negative at ground size: no bicycle-only ground, no velodrome, no documented course belongs to Mishawaka in the record reached. The racing side of the search closes the same way. What Mishawaka had in the wheel era, on the record, was bicycles — sold by its dealers, ridden on its streets, replaced in time by the automobile its own factories would briefly build — and no race.
- South Bend's Cycle Club of 1896: the South Bend history's trails file (boundary item — the club is South Bend's)
- The Mishawaka searches for a club, meet, or rider of record: no result; the trails section of this history prints the ground-side negative