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 Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject: 1896 bike map of California |
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bikes before cars:
click on the map to get a sorta better resolution
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awesome, where did you get that? I am currently trying to write a research paper on the relationship between bicycles and "manliness" from around 1878 (year the Pope co. started mass production of ordinaries in the U.S.) till about 1920.
Some argue that it was the League of American Wheelmen and the "good roads movement" which was mainly responsible for better maintained and safer U.S. But cars soon took advantage and crowded bicycles off of the streets. In most cities people became too afraid to continue riding their bikes on major streets. Supposedly this didn't happen as quickly in France because it was much harder to get a driver's license and/or car there.
Mason, Philip P. The League of American Wheelmen and the Good-Roads Movement, 1880-1905. Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms, 1958.
Burr, Thomas Cameron. Markets as Producers and Consumers: The French and U.S. National Bicycle Markests, 1875-1910.
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you know you're in research paper mode when you cite references in your forum posts. 
Bike, Broke. LexRides Forum Index -> General Discussion -> 1896 Bike Map of California: Lexrides.com Forums, 2008
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: |
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| crackajacks ride unions |
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Rowbear
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| brokebike wrote: | | Bike, Broke. LexRides Forum Index -> General Discussion -> 1896 Bike Map of California: Lexrides.com Forums, 2008 |
 , I deserved that.
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roller
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| Rowbear wrote: | | awesome, where did you get that? |
This is from the David Rumsey Map Collection, one of the best online historic map galleries.
Doing a paper a manliness? You're talking to the right guy... interesting also at this time the bicycle was seen as freedom machine for feminists and suffragists (Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle, 2008).
I think you'd have to be pretty burly to tackle some of those V.P.M. (very poor mountainous) roads. I imagine the union crackajack weighed no less than 30 lbs and you might've worn untold amounts of wool and leather. |
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| roller wrote: | | Doing a paper a manliness? You're talking to the right guy... |
So true. It's a little-known fact that women often start ovulating the moment Boyd walks into their frame of sight.
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| alex wrote: | | crackajacks ride unions |
crack·a·jack \ˈkra-kər-ˌjak\
Function: noun
Etymology: probably alteration of crack + jack (man)
Date: 1895
a person or thing of marked excellence
crackerjack adjective
Entry. Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Merriam-Webster, Inc., © 2008
crack a jack
to take a dump, have a shit, to defecate.
"I need to crack a jack"
shit, crap, poop, dump, defecate
sparky. UrbanDictionary.com, Sep 6, 2006
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the feminist angle has been covered pretty well so I'm not going to try and touch that. Who really cares about women anyway, unless it's for the purpose of make-out sessions? 
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I didn't realize Deere made bikes back in the day... although just about every novelty cruiser bike manufacturer now has either made one, or thought about making one.
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roller
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| brokebike wrote: | | roller wrote: | | Doing a paper a manliness? You're talking to the right guy... |
So true. It's a little-known fact that women often start ovulating the moment Boyd walks into their frame of sight. |
that's right and i reproduce through laser beams and longwave radiation. |
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yeah, I bought that last year when researching why there is such a lack of black cyclists involved in competitive cycling
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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A social history of the bicycle, its early life and times in America damn, we got like a history club here.
read some reviews and nice book. i bet it has some colorful and entertaining stories, since it pulls from 1890 newspaper articles.
i'll look it up at the library, but imagine though there are uses of bikes that would blow your mind. |
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I don't know how early John Deere made bikes, but an old college romance had a green and yellow 70s 3-speed. If I remember it was a pretty solid bike with a sweet bouncy leather seat. Of course the memories are priceless, but I don't think the bike was worth much.
I'm trying to like this site, but frankly it sucks, http://oldroads.com/master_query.asp
Any good directories of old bikes with photos? |
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