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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]
An American Star Bicycle from 1885 with the small wheel in front. The bike, with the one wheel dominating, led to riders being referred to in America as "wheelmen", a name that lived on for nearly a century in the League of American Wheelmen until renamed the League of American Bicyclists in 1994. [45]
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 ...
Folding bicycles, which often allow parking in a workplace or home closet where there isn't room for a full sized bike, became increasingly popular early in the 21st century. [51] European city bikes from the Netherlands, though lacking this virtue, became a lesser trend in 2008. [52]
Ever since the United States of America became a nation, the struggle between opposing social classes -- those who have much, and those who have very little -- was present. In the early 1900s ...
They fought the original license-holder for the production of bicycles and eventually won the process in the US Supreme Court. [2] The company was sold to the American Bicycle Company, led by Pope and Spaulding, in 1900 so that Jeffery could focus on manufacturing the Rambler automobile under the new Thomas B. Jeffery Company. [2]