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as "unspeakably vile ... seas of mud or oceans of sand", taking exactly two weeks to arrive in
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company and rode one of their motorcycles on the transcontinental record-setting trip.
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231:"Motorcycle transcontinental record trip"
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27:American long-distance motorcycle rider
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698:Long-distance motorcycle riders
347:Long-distance motorcycle riding
71:days. He was an officer of the
293:"Descriptions of Motor Cycles"
102:Auto-Bi which cost $ 145 new.
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277:"Chadeayne reaches 'Frisco"
261:"Chadeayne reaches 'Frisco"
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43:long-distance motorcyclist
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603:Simon and Monika Newbound
178:Automobile Blue Book 1907
454:Robert Edison Fulton Jr.
385:Avis and Effie Hotchkiss
370:Erwin "Cannonball" Baker
309:The Automobile Blue Book
618:Kevin and Julia Sanders
242:Rafferty, Tod (1999),
41:was an American early
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79:Transcontinental trip
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18:William C. Chadeayne
555:Carol and Ken Duval
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127:The Automobile 1905
628:Claudio von Planta
400:Bessie Stringfield
214:The Motor Way 1906
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464:John Gerber
395:Robert Sexé
93:Ogden, Utah
85:Mississippi
692:Categories
661:Hyder Seek
583:Allan Karl
578:Geoff Hill
573:Pat Garrod
499:Jim Rogers
494:Max Reisch
479:Neil Peart
459:Pat Garrod
253:0760313989
109:References
100:model year
623:Ted Simon
514:Ted Simon
436:Dave Barr
429:1930–2000
363:Pre 1930
648:rallies
224:Sources
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