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Motor-paced racing
Motor-paced racing and motor-paced cycling refer to cycling behind a pacer in a car or more usually on a motorcycle. The cyclist follows as close as he can to profit from the slipstream of his pacer. The first paced races were behind other cyclists, sometimes as many as five riders on the same tandem. Bordeaux-Paris and record attempts have been ridden behind cars. More usually races or training are behind motorcycles.
==Origins of pacing==
Cyclists started to use tandem bicycles as pacers in the late 19th century. There could be as many as five riders on the pacing machine.〔The Bicycle, UK, 21 October 1953, p15〕 Companies such as Dunlop sponsored pacing teams,〔The Bicycle, UK, 6 February 1952, p2〕 and "tens of thousands"〔 turned out to watch. A south London rider, J. W. Stocks, set British record of 32 miles 1 086 yards in an hour behind a Dunlop quintuplet on 27 September 1897.〔〔 The pacing tandems were ridden by professionals, of whom as many as 100 were under contract. Each competitor had six to eight pacing teams for races between 50 and 100 miles.〔
Speeds rose when engines were added to pacing tandems. Arthur Chase and the Frenchman, Émile Bouhours set English records behind powered tandems in 1898 and 1899.〔Chase: 33 miles 712 yards on 22 August 1898. Bouhours 34 miles 740 yards. Both rode at The Crystal Palace.〕 Chase used a 4½hp motorcycle to pace him to 37 miles 196 yards in a private test at The Crystal Palace, south London, in July 1900 but riders in the USA and in Paris had already done better. Some races mixed pacing with solo bicycles, tandem and motorcycle, with the riders given different start points in compensation.〔The Bicycle, UK, 1 January 1947, p1〕
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