it turns out, a cyclorama has nothing to do with bikes, or wheeled vehicles...

 and here's how I learned that

I was looking up Albert Champion (spark plug fame of course) and learned:

a building in Boston was commissioned by Charles F. Willoughby's Boston Cyclorama Company to house the Cyclorama of the Battle of Gettysburg, a 400-by-50 foot cyclorama painting of the Battle of Gettysburg. 

The central space is a 127'-diameter steel-trussed dome which, when it was built, was the largest dome in the country after that on the United States Capitol building. 

In 1889, a new cyclorama painting, Custer's Last Fight, was installed, but by 1890, the fashion for cycloramas had ended, and the new owner of the building, John Gardner converted it to a venue for popular entertainment, including a carousel, roller skating, boxing tournaments (including an 1894 fight of John L. Sullivan), horseback riding, bicycling, and so on.

By the 1890s, it had become an industrial space, used by the Albert Champion Company. In 1907, Albert Champion developed the Champion spark plug there

So, in a round about way, it was a fad painting style? Which created a place that eventually became a roller skating rink, and manufacturing/research/experimenting offices for the spark plug company. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclorama_Building_(Boston)

A Cyclorama is: 

a panoramic image on the inside of a cylindrical platform, designed to give viewers standing in the middle of the cylinder a 360° view, and also a building designed to show a panoramic image. The intended effect is to make viewers, surrounded by the panoramic image, feel as if they were standing in the midst of the place depicted in the image.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclorama