"Charles M. Murphy... 1899, on a board surface laid between the rails of the Long Island Railroad... riding within a hood... at the rear of a car, kept up with the car as it was pulled by a locomotive at... 60 miles an hour. ...[H]e became known as "Mile-A-Minute Murphy." His record was surpassed... 1911, when Alfred Letourner pedaled a mile in 33.05 seconds on a highway in California... at... 108.92 miles an hour in the wake of a shield attached to the rear of a midget racing automobile."