From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 19, 1975:

A group of 10 bicyclists passed through Lawrence this week in the middle of a 3,000-mile ride across the country. Five of the cyclists had started at San Francisco on May 23 and had been joined by five others in Colorado. Their destination was Atlantic City, N.J., which they expected to reach June 29. The group had flown west to their starting point. “We decided to start from the west because wind currents are supposed to travel from west to east, but I don’t think it made much difference,” said Earl Page, leader of the group. The tired group had arrived in Lawrence after traveling 190 miles in one day and had decided to stay for a day. “This is only the second day we’ve taken off riding. We only do it when we’re ahead of schedule,” explained cyclist Butch Fodor. Confined by law to secondary roads, the group had encountered some steep climbs, Page said. “Interstate roads are graded, but most of the secondary roads aren’t,” he said, adding that some of the toughest climbs had come not in the Rockies, but in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Of their west-to-east ride across Kansas, the group reported discovering that the state was not as flat as they had been led to believe. “It was like a roller coaster ride,” said Tom Robertson.