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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 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 ...
Book cover of The Modern Bicycle, published in London in 1877. Eugène Meyer of Paris is now regarded as the father of the high bicycle [9] by the International Cycling History Conference in place of James Starley. Meyer patented a wire-spoke tension wheel with individually adjustable spokes in 1869. [4]
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]
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 ...
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 .
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