Six-day racing
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Six-day cycling is a track cycling event that takes place over six days. Six-day races started in Britain, spread to many regions of the world, were brought to their modern style in the United States
Racing at the 2007 Six Days of Dortmund
A six-day race at Madison Square Garden II in December 1908
Riders rest in small cabins beside the track when the race is in progress
Riders compete not only in madisons but in subsidiary competitions behind pacers
Major Taylor
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Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor was an American professional cyclist. He has been called "the first Black American global sports superstar."
Six-day racing
…have used doping to keep their riders circling the track. Riders became desperately tired. According to a contemporary newspaper clipping retained by Major Taylor: The riders are becoming peevish and fretful. The wear and tear upon their nerves and their muscles, and the loss of sleep make them so. If their desires…
Taylor in 1907
Harry T. Hearsey's bicycle shop in Downtown Indianapolis in 1896, where Taylor worked as a bicycle instructor
The earliest press image of Taylor, aged 18, from the July 6, 1895, edition of Indianapolis News