Never did a band of leaner, handsomer dandies straddle the high wheel than on this trip of the Buffalo Bicycle Club to St. Catharines, Ontario, on May 30, 1887. The high wheel, also known as the penny-farthing or ordinary, was the first machine to be given the name “bicycle.” High wheel riders were known in America as “wheelmen,” a name that survived for almost century in the League of American Wheelmen until it was renamed to the League of American Bicyclists in 1994. Bicycle club racers often wore uniforms of peaked caps, tight jackets, knee-length breeches, and caps and jackets displaying the club colors, as seen here. At least 95 such bicycle clubs existed in the Buffalo area around the turn of the century. The Buffalo Bicycle Club may have been the first, established in 1879 with headquarters at 132 College Street, which still stands.