1893 24-Hour Road Race

1893 August. 'The interest of wheelmen all over the world is to-day centred on the great annual twenty-four hours' race of the North Road Club, which was started at a point about a mile and a half north of St. Neots, in Huntingdonshire, at midnight. It will be remembered that Shorland last year won with the record distance of miles. He had previously won the first 24 hours path race at Herne Hill with a total of 413.75 miles, and this event he again won this year, raising the record to 426 miles. The previous road records for 24 hours on the safety bicycle were:—

• 1885 G. P. Mills 285 miles;
• 1888 P. A. Nix 237;
• 1889 M. A. Holbein 324;
• 1890 Holbein 336;
• 1891 Holbein 359;
• 1892 Shorland 366.5

The course for to-day's contest was practically the same as last year....'

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