Sign up for the 52nd Annual Wheelmen Meet!

[atorpey1]

The registration form for the 52nd Annual Wheelmen Meet in historic Sedalia Missouri is now online!  Meet dates are July 24-28, 2019.

Missouri Captain and former Wheelman Commander James Allen is pulling out all the stops to make the 52nd Annual Meet of the Wheelmen something you will never forget!

Sedalia has so much to offer, the cradle of American ragtime music, the end of the famous Sedalia Trail made famous by TV's "Rawhide", the beautiful Queen City of the Prairie, shop the most fabulous Victorian and Edwardian costume shop in the West, hear Mark Twain speak of "Taming the Bicycle", try your hand at steer roping and the cow chip toss at the bicycle games!

The Missouri Wheelmen are promising a rollicking good time for one and all!  Click below to print a copy of the Registration form, below.  Direct all questions to Captain James Allen at pedalers@swbell.net or call him at (417)576-1464.

https://www.thewheelmen.com/sections/events/2019-07-24-pix/SedaliaRegistrationForm.pdf

[slcurts]

If, like me, you'd like to see the daily plan so you can figure out which nights you want to be there, here's what I've been given:

52nd Annual Wheelmen Meet

State Fair Community College

Sedalia, Missouri

July 24-28, 2019

Wednesday July 24, 2019 –   Check-In opens at 2 pm

• 5-6:30 pm – Dinner
• 7 pm - Ice Cream Social
• 8 pm - Century Meeting

Thursday July 25, 2019 – 

• 6 am - Century Ride Day – 25 – 50 or 100 mile ride
• 7-8 am - Breakfast
• 11 am - Noon – Lunch
• 1 pm – Historic Sedalia Bus Tour
• 5-6:30 pm – Dinner
  
• 8 pm - Executive Business Meeting

Friday July 26, 2019 – 

• 7-8 am - Breakfast
• 8 am - Swap Meet
• 10:30 - Drill Team Practice
• 11 am - Noon – Lunch
• 1:30 - Bicycle Games
• 2 pm - Special Guest “Meet and Greet”
• 3 pm - Clinics on Emergency dismounts and trick riding
• 5-6 pm – Dinner

Friday night

• 6:30 pm – Ragtime music slideshow
• Mark Twain speaks of “Taming the Bicycle”
• Other Special Guests

Saturday July 27, 2019 – 

• 7-8 am - Breakfast
• 8:30 am – General Business Meeting
• 10 am - Official 10 Mile Tour for Ordinaries and Safeties
• Group Photo
• Box Lunch – Cycling Demonstration – Drill Team Performance
• Antique Bicycle Races and modern bicycle criterium
• 2 pm - Return to the College

Saturday night

• 6-8 pm – Banquet and Awards

[atorpey1]

Pedalers  Bicycle Museum to open for travelers to Wheelmen National Meet

A trip to Missouri for the Wheelmen Annual Meet would not be complete without a visit to the Pedalers Bicycle Museum in Springfield, Missouri.  Created and owned by Missouri Captain and past Wheelmen Commander James Allen, the Pedalers Bicycle Museum is a hugely popular museum full of the most unique and amazing bicycles in the West.  Highlights of the collection are the “Lamplighter” Bicycle, used in New York City in the late 1800s, allowing the rider to stay mounted on the 7 foot frame while lighting the street lamps.  Other highlights include a bicycle assembled by the Wright Brothers, a 12-seater bicycle, and a collection of high wheel ordinaries ridden across America by Wheelmen Nolan Bay and Jack Castor.

James will have the museum open the day before the Wheelmen Annual Meet starts on Tuesday, July 23 from 10 am until 6 pm.  Springfield is a 100 mile drive from Sedalia, which makes a great chance to see many of the treasures James has collected through the years.  Plan on making a trip to the Pedalers Museum an addition to your itinerary for the Wheelmen National Meet.  The Pedalers Bicycle Museum is located on 328 East Commercial Street in Springfield, Missouri.  You can call James at 417-576-1464 for more information.

[DelombardR]

You said: "Springfield is a 100 mile drive from Sedalia,"

How far is it from Springfield to Sedalia by high wheel?   

Oh, wait, never mind, it's SOUTH of Sedalia.   <rats> <curses, foiled again>

[John Skocdopole]

Everyone is going to Sedalia, Missouri
July 24-28, 2019

[atorpey1]

John, thanks for posting this.  So very neat.  Where did you find it?  We definitely need to get permission to have this for our Wheelmen Annual Meet Memorabilia and possibly place it on the Meet Brochure.

[John Skocdopole]

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2013634347/
Mural: The Oklahoma Land Rush, April 22, 1889, by John Steuart Curry at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

 It is located at the at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C.   
 It you look closely at the green wagon with the red wheels, you'll notice the wagon read, "Curry Wagon Works Madison, WI."

Note - the copy I found someone vandalize the wagon top. Wrote Sedalia instead of Oklahoma or bust.

[atorpey1]

Thanks for finding this, it only proves that treasures are to be found - EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!