Circle of RESPECT by LiL Buc & Torcherman of Torcher Chamber Records There was no denying that Miss Katie Knox was a card-carrying member of the League of American Wheelmen, but her attendance at the annual meeting in 1895 lit a fire that sparked newspaper headlines from coast to coast. Only 21 years old at the time, the bi-racial seamstress and cycling enthusiast dared to challenge the new "color bar" instituted by the League just one year earlier.