Great Grandpop and His Bike
11-14-05, 11:35 AM
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Great Grandpop and His Bike
I ran across this photo looking through my pop's scrapbook he made in '62 as a high school project. Great gramps was born in 1880, so I would guess this to be late 1890's, early 1900's.
Pop wrote:
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Pop wrote:
When he was about sixteen years old, he ran away from home because his father wouldn't buy him a bicycle. He then worked to get some money to buy one. To get to different places he used to ride in or underneath the freight cars on the different trains. After he had earned enough money to buy a bicycle, and had bought one, he entered bicycle races -- a fad of that time.
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11-14-05, 12:10 PM
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How cool!
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Very nice!
11-14-05, 03:51 PM
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Cool photo, looks like a fixie, you should send it in to Fixed gear gallery
https://www.fixedgeargallery.com/
Love those handlebars, talk about a drop...........
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Love those handlebars, talk about a drop...........
11-14-05, 03:56 PM
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Awesome. What gets me is how little the geometry of a racing bike has changed in 110 years.
11-14-05, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by greybeard87
Love those handlebars, talk about a drop...........
Great picture! It is nice that some families have a cycling history that is preserved in such ways.
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Great picture! That's one to hang on to....yeah, the pic and the handlebars, too! YIKES! :-)
