Bicycle Rider Author:Mary Scioscia No doubt about it - young Marshall Taylor is a very fast bicyclist. What's moe, he can do some amazng tricks: pedaling backward, standing on his head, juggling. Mr. Hay is so impressed that he gives Marshall a job at his bike shop, and then enters him in the annual Indianapolis Bicycle race as te store representative. On the day of the race,... more » Marshall gets more publicity for the store than Mr. Hay could ever have imagined - by performing a feat he himself never imagined possible. With that first race in the late 1800's, Marshall Taylor was on his way to becoming the fastest bicycle rider in the world.« less