Exeter Bicycle Club
1873 Club founded (claimed at their jubilee celebrations in 1923)
1877 Club founded. 'Exeter Bicycle Club. The above Club which was started about ten mouths ago, has been presented by Sir John Bennett, Knt., with a Challenge Prize, in the shape of a handsomely-engraved watch. The first race for this prize will take place on September 7th, the course chosen by the Committee being from Exeter to Starcross. The Committee hope to be in a position to offer other prizes.'[1]
1923 Jubilee celebrations. 'Mr. F. W. Wood, who, I believe, writing a history the Club, has compiled a Jubilee souvenir, giving summary events the past 50 years. It is well got up and interesting. One of the photographs, taken about the 1879, depicts members the old Exeter Bicycle Club with their quaint-looking "ordinaries" and "pill-boxes" for headgear. Fourteen out of a group of fifteen members taken at Fingle Bridge in 1889 are still alive, the exception being Mr. W. H. Ayear who died recently. Another picture is of the late Mr. W. G. Hodge (taken in 1892), showing him in racing costume. The name of Mr. Frank Chick, the present President, who joined the Club in September. 1885, finds a prominent place in the reading matter, and the good work of Mr. E. Chick, who joined the Club the same year, is also proven.'[2]