From Weise’s “The City of Troy and its Vicinity”:
“Troy Bicycle Club, organized November 4, 1881, purchased the spacious Coliseum Building, on the south side of Federal Street, between Sixth and Eighth streets, in the early part of 1886, and fitted it for the purposes of the association. The clubhouse, built of brick, has a frontage of 93 feet and a depth of 101 feet. The riding room, adjacent the club-parlors, is 80 by 100 feet.”
Before they took over the Coliseum Building, long since gone, they met in the basement of the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall:
1883:
“The Troy Bicycle Club have furnished handsome apartments in the basement of Music Hall, and justly claim that their quarters are excelled by those of few similar organizations in the country. There are a large wheel-room and parlor, divided by a handsomely designed oak railing, a commodious toilet-room, with baths, two large dressing-rooms, and a janitor’s room. The floors are all of Georgia pine, finished in shellac, and varnished, and the ceilings are in hard finish. The parlor is elegantly furnished with ebony chairs and tiles upholstered in figured brown silk with crimson silk trimmings, besides two elaborately wrought centre-tables, one in polished oak and the other in ebony with marble top. An upright piano graces one corner of the room, and walls are adorned with the portraits of famous wheelmen, and with tasteful engravings. In one of the dressing-rooms is a handsome and costly sideboard.”