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Menotomy Vintage Bicycles – Antique bicycle photos, features, price guide and research tools. Metz Bicycle Museum in Freehold, NJ; Myths and Milestones in Bicycle Evolution by William Hudson (accessed 2005-11-17) A Quick History of Bicycles from the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum (accessed 2005-01-06) Sharp, Archibald (1911). "Bicycle" .
A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A bicycle rider is called a cyclist, or bicyclist. Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century in Europe. By the early 21st century there were more ...
According to the US Census Bureau’s 2008 American Community Survey(ACS), on September 22, 2009, 0.55 percent of Americans use a bicycle as the primary means of getting to work. [8] Some places of employment offer amenities to bike commuters, such as showers, changing rooms, indoor bike racks and other secure bike parking.
Image credits: undiscoveredh1story Nowadays, we consume tons of visual media. Videos, photos, cinema, and TV can help us learn new things every day. However, they can just as easily misinform us.
The cycling museum has a documentation center about cycling with a lot of photos, old newspapers and (cycling-)magazines, program brochures and cycling archives. The museum publishes regular exhibition catalogues or books of exercises. Since 2012 the museum publishes the cycling-historic magazine Etappe. [7]
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2008 – The first "National" rally in the US, specifically for Motor-Assisted-Bicycles, took place in Ocean Park WA. There were 29 bikes, of various styles, representing 4 states. 2008 – A motorized bicycle ridden by Augie Deabler is accepted as an official entrant at the Bonneville Salt Flats "World of Speed '08."
Image credits: Vestiges of History Family stories are rarely one type or another. When you look at a photo, you might start talking about a beach vacation, but the conversation could lead to the ...