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U.S. bike boom of 1965–1975: The period of 1965–1975 saw adult cycling increase sharply in popularity – with Time magazine calling it "the bicycle's biggest wave of popularity in its 154-year history" [4] The period was followed by a sudden [5] fall in sales, resulting in a large inventory of unsold bicycles.
The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s (University of Chicago Press, 2015). x, 267 pp. Tony Hadland & Hans-Erhard Lessing: Bicycle Design – An Illustrated History. The MIT-Press, Cambridge (USA) 2014, ISBN 978-0-262-02675-8; David Gordon Wilson Bicycling Science 3rd ed. 2004; David V. Herlihy Bicycle – The History. 2004
In 1895, George B. Clementson, an American attorney, wrote The Road Rights and Liabilities of Wheelmen, the first book on bicycle law, in which he discussed the seminal cases of the 1880s and 1890s, which were financed by Albert Pope of Columbia Bicycles, and through which cyclists gained the right to the road. [3]
These bicycles had solid rubber tires and as a consequence the only shock absorption was in the saddle. The penny-farthing became obsolete in the late 1880s with the development of modern bicycles, which provided similar speed, via a chain-driven gear train, and comfort, from the use of pneumatic tires.
In 1895 Frances Willard, the tightly laced president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, wrote a book called How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle (described in Bicycling magazine as "the greatest book ever written on learning to ride" [15]), in which she praised the bicycle she learned to ride late in life, and which she named "Gladys ...
Once upon a time, most of the bikes sold in the U.S. were American-made; these days, most bicycles and bike components come from China. But there are still plenty of small companies dedicated to ...
And yet, throughout that seventy-year period, cyclists had no legal right to use the roads or walkways. [citation needed] With the twin developments of the safety bicycle and the pneumatic tire, bicycles enjoyed a new boom of popularity, beginning in the 1880s, and culminating in the bicycle craze of the 1890s. Until the 1890s, the bicycle had ...
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