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Essay / Advantages and disadvantages of transportation - 1376
In New York there were Italian racing groups. There were also many other ethnic groups who enjoyed the race. Safety bicycles with pneumatic tires took over big-wheel racing in the late 1880s. (). Safety bicycles with pneumatic tires were the fastest bicycles compared to previous cycle types. Previously, only wealthy people with bicycles were part of cycling clubs, but since safety bikes began to become popular, college cycling clubs began to form. This created more equality between social classes. Not all cycling clubs host all kinds of races. The League of American Wheelman was a group founded in 1880 in Newport and had approximately 103,300 members in 1898. This league, however, did not limit its membership to whites until 1894, under pressure from southern members. Women were also not allowed to participate in