Originally Posted by
bulgie
I have heard it said that the Wright's first used or popularized the use of the left-hand thread for the left pedal. Maybe apocryphal?
I read this somewhere as well, so I asked the docent at the Wright Cycle Shop in Greenfield Village* at the Henry Ford Museum. His eyes bugged out and he said he'd never heard of that, but he'd find out.
Some of the items on display in the shop:
*Yep, Henry Ford bought the Wright's cycle shop and had it moved from Dayton to Dearborn!