... every bike is single-speed and none had brakes.
Track Bikes Track bikes are pretty much the same today. No brakes, one gear, and no freewheel so ...
... one of "The Little Rascals" (Our Gang) comedies.
Two Bikes, Three Kids Enough to guarantee a major disagreement if my personal ... the Rascals would despise, until they got to ride their bikes.
Spanish Moss The plant dripping from the live oak (Quercus ...
... Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Free Bikes I love how they could just leave their bikes by the side of the street without a second thought about the possibility ...
... negative. View full size.
When Men Were Men and Bikes Were Worried Early dirt racing bikes were primitive even for the time, according to my late father who raced a ...
... River Avenue.
A hipster's dream What beautiful bikes. As a cyclist, I would love to have one of them.
Just like today's hipster bikes No brakes - no coaster brakes, no hand brakes.
All the with-it ...
... from his ghost position to where he is now.
Boys and bikes You can tell by his blurry foot that the driver is kickstarting his ... riders. The low price ($150) was cheaper than comparative bikes offered by other manufacturers. The A2 was replaced in 1925 by the 350cc ...
... Avenue, and the bicycle store there where we rented bikes on Saturday afternoons. Going to confession every Saturday down in the ... He needed someone to identify the kids who rented there (bikes rented for 20 cents an hour -- and that's the truth). We started a Junior ...
... allows it to be steered from the rear seat.
Rambler bikes and cars These Rambler bikes came from the Gormully and Jeffery Mfg. Co. of Chicago. By the time the ...
... View full size.
Fixies? It appears that the bikes they were planning to ride were fixed-gear bikes with no brakes. I shudder to think what these guys went through crossing ...
Dallas, October 1913. "Messenger boy in the heart of the Reservation (Red Light). Prostitutes run back and forth. Business beginning at mid-day. I saw messenger boys and delivery boys for drug stores from 15 years upward. Some still younger told m ...
Detroit circa 1899. "Forest Drive, Belle Isle Park." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
(The Gallery, Bicycles, Detroit Photos, DPC) ...
... back the horse could be problematic.
Fixed gear bikes Notice that none of the bikes left leaning against the curb have locks. Imagine trying that today.
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... the sign was for the Adam Good Company.
Propped bikes today I've seen bikes propped up against the curb like that in Tulum, Mexico, but never in the ...
... at that town's entire cadre of newsies here.
The bikes remind me of the ex-service Parachute bikes, Model BSA 'Airborne folding para troops bicycle,' that were left by the ...
... another local community like Bladensburg or Laurel.
bikes I agree with Sugapea. My husband and I both graduated from the ... is just down the street from Greenbelt). He had 3 locked bikes stolen before he just gave up.
Greenbelt I lived in Greenbelt from ...
... to see how casual bike owners were in this instance. Bikes are parked all over the place with no worry about locking them up. Love ... first filed an application in district court"
Upright bikesBikes back then were "fixies." They had no braking other than ...
... is a fantastic way to see the countryside.
A world of bikes at the end of the golden age of biking In the lower right hand corner, ... sidewalk. Of course the 1890s had been the golden age of bikes, and the Model T was still 8 years away from sale to the public. The ...
... was the exception to this routine.
I had similar bikes, I had both 26" and 28" Schwinns. And yes, I said that right, not a 24" ...
My handlebar basket was twice as big as on these boy's bikes and I had a pair of saddle bag style wire baskets on the back like the ...
... last a thousand beers!
Little has changed Brakeless bikes, like the one in this great picture, are the 'modern' thing again now. ... new assignment I want to try to determine exactly when bikes started appearing with fenders attached.
Goebel's -- the ...
... Illinois and Wisconsin. It is a delicious treat!
Bikes and Class Would the guy in the high-buttoned jacket have been a beater ... but if so, that could explain why there are one too few bikes. The other men's wearing spiffy clothing and boutonnieres on a hunt ...