A fact from 6 Day Bike Rider appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 January 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that during the filming of 6 Day Bike Rider, sixteen bicyclists hit the cameraman's motorcycle, which resulted in nine of them being injured?
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... that the 1934 film 6 Day Bike Rider is based on six-day racing, in which a team of two people would circle a wooden track on a bicycle for six days?
ALT1:... that the 1934 film 6 Day Bike Rider had Reggie McNamara, known as the “Iron Man” because of his 108 six-day bicycle races, in his film debut?
ALT2:... that during the filming of 6 Day Bike Rider, 16 bicyclists hit the cameraman's motorcycle which resulted in nine of them being injured?
ALT2:... that during the filming of 6 Day Bike Rider, 16 bicyclists hit the cameraman's motorcycle which resulted in nine of them being injured?
No issues, GTG. Gog the Mild (talk) 12:26, 13 January 2021 (UTC)