Post AzZDhHVCslD8TXxznM by meganL@mas.to
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(DIR) Post #AzZBEjTPbjzsv6O0tk by ascentale@sfba.social
2025-10-24T23:24:02Z
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@tregeagle asks:I found a couple of fantastic old pictures from an 1890 bicycle race in my town. Q4. Does anyone else have any historical bicycle related pictures or stories from their hometowns?#BikeNiteQ #BikeNite #BikeTooter #Cycling #MastoBikes cc @bikenite
(DIR) Post #AzZBEkvSCy1RQMVvFI by w8emv@a2mi.social
2025-10-25T00:26:21Z
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@ascentale @tregeagle @bikenite A4. The Ann Arbor District Library has a great collection of local news photos. This is "Wurster Dairy Ice Cream Carts, 1938".https://aadl.org/node/226785#BikeTooter #bikenite #AADL
(DIR) Post #AzZBEm4LxMjcyFgXku by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-25T11:41:24Z
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@w8emv @ascentale @bikenite those back-to-front ice-cream tricycles actually look like fun to ride
(DIR) Post #AzZBEorhYrOhdsmyx6 by ascentale@sfba.social
2025-10-25T06:50:30Z
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@tregeagle @bikenite A4. I only know of ones I’ve seen via @morgan !Hopefully they can chime in.#BikeNite
(DIR) Post #AzZBNWMVizJ2rWLhJ2 by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-25T11:43:16Z
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@Cameleopard @w8emv @ascentale @bikenite we used to get the occasional onion seller from Brittany pedaling around Cornwall when I was a small kid in the early 70's.
(DIR) Post #AzZBQS0UNDpeDvRgFU by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-25T11:43:47Z
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@Cameleopard @w8emv @ascentale @bikenite Cornwall is a bit more hilly than Hull
(DIR) Post #AzZC3PwnxqQj88Iqvo by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-25T11:50:48Z
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@FourT4 @ascentale crikey! It weighed over two (2!) tons. That's solid!
(DIR) Post #AzZDhFJ52sK3fMHHcG by meganL@mas.to
2025-10-24T23:39:53Z
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@ascentale @tregeagle @bikenite A4. I used to live in Berkeley and there was a similar photo of cyclists lined up across Shattuck Ave. that I longed to get in the right place to match. Never did.The Pasadena Cycleway was long gone by the time I was a kid, but later I found out about it. And saw some areas it supposedly used to run through. #BikeNite
(DIR) Post #AzZDhGaUHdqBddQhO4 by moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2025-10-24T23:45:53Z
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@meganL that looks amazing I want to visit(still waiting for a tardis lol)#BikeNite
(DIR) Post #AzZDhHVCslD8TXxznM by meganL@mas.to
2025-10-24T23:48:40Z
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@moira I really regret that no one around me was teaching me the history of where I grew up when I grew up. There's so much I could have investigated or even interviewed people about...Although subsequent research of US history lets me know the region was also a hotbed of eugenics, racism, etc. so... I'd want to be invisible if I visited and have a ready escape plan... #BikeNite
(DIR) Post #AzZDhIT7I18JTLzqAy by moira@mastodon.murkworks.net
2025-10-25T00:05:46Z
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@meganL also tho, i always dig into the history of where i live, even if it’s briefly. it’s so much fun.
(DIR) Post #AzZDhJTrWjK8bxLwye by meganL@mas.to
2025-10-25T00:08:38Z
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@moira I just had no links to it. My dad was a history buff, but completely interested in US Civil War and WWII.I like history too, but US history was so whitewashed in school ( I didn't know that, I just knew that the stories they told in school were boring), so I gravitated towards medieval and other English history and classical Greece/Rome until after undergrad. That was when I finally figured out how much US history had been whitewashed (like more than I had thought).
(DIR) Post #AzZDhKR3ycg9ZZ3EFk by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-25T12:09:10Z
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@meganL @moira Same here in Australia. There is so much of our history which is not talked about.
(DIR) Post #AzZDokUVV8l2PSCTU8 by ajft@aus.social
2025-10-24T23:30:20Z
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@ascentale @tregeagle @bikenite #BikeNite A4 For pictures, we've got a few old prints of le tour around the house. Stories, Russell Mockridge was a famous Aus. racer who was hit by a bus & killed on a corner I ride through sometimes on my commute
(DIR) Post #AzZDolOAADHFC4EvEe by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-25T12:10:28Z
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@ajft @ascentale @bikenite so many cyclist's have been killed hey :(
(DIR) Post #AzZDvUioWsZPWs6nom by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-25T12:11:50Z
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@meganL @ascentale @bikenite I love that bike track. I used to commute along one a bit like that in Brisbane back in the early 2000's
(DIR) Post #AzZE6s3Q7Wx54wAiJc by meganL@mas.to
2025-10-25T12:13:48Z
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@tregeagle @ascentale @bikenite The design seems good if you're treating it like a subway that goes from Pasadena to downtown LA. That you only want to get from A to B. But there were no offramps that I know of, so it wasn't practical for people going places in between those two...not a utilitarian track (which is badly needed) but more for recreation. #BikeNite
(DIR) Post #AzZEybMOP8LkwNfOqW by meganL@mas.to
2025-10-25T12:23:28Z
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@tregeagle @Cameleopard @w8emv @ascentale @bikenite I don't have time to find the exact place, but I distinctly remember them showing a Breton onion seller cycling through Cornwall when they were talking about the linguistic relation between Cornish and Breton in "The Story of English"https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6D54D1C7DAE31B36 #BikeNite #Language
(DIR) Post #AzZFZazKkYxYVAWNOK by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-25T12:30:01Z
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@ascentale @bikenite Also from I suspect the same day, this very cool looking dude (Mr R.Temme?) and his machine.This fellow in his stylish cycling clothes of the day and no doubt cutting edge machine - makes me think of Alfred Jarry's book, Supermale. Or, even Alfred Jarry himself. A writer of a bizarre and alarming set of stories set in the future of his scrambled mind.https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+76480
(DIR) Post #AzZFtXBSbX4MUhhVtQ by meganL@mas.to
2025-10-25T12:33:49Z
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@tregeagle @ascentale @bikenite Hoo boy, is *that* Aussie! #BikeNite
(DIR) Post #AzZFuA69vB0BBYWKXo by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-25T12:33:55Z
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@meganL @Cameleopard @w8emv @ascentale @bikenite Ha! Yep that's right. The Cornish and Breton languages are closely linked. My French teacher at Helston Comp. (Mrs Hake where are you now?) also taught us Cornish and frequently linked it with Breton.
(DIR) Post #AzZK4zzIFix0pUjRrc by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-25T13:20:43Z
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@meganL @ascentale @bikenite yes the one in Brisbane was like that too. High fences either side, a bicycle highway. Not ideal.
(DIR) Post #AzeJ1YzJ9HtpBmUT6e by morgan@sfba.social
2025-10-27T14:51:57Z
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@ascentale @tregeagle @bikenite howdy, yes, I've compiled the #BicycleHistory of the #SanFrancisco #BayArea from the 1860s - 1940s, primarily focusing on the #BicycleBoom era circa 1895, in #wiki form, using #MediaWiki. See it here: https://www.wooljersey.com/I'd love help transcribing, researching and linking these, but I don't want to deal with bots or scammers, so I've turned off visitor registration. I have 1000s of newspaper clippings, mostly about bicycle history, waiting for... my free time, someone's interest, here:https://www.newspapers.com/clippings/?user=3570264&query=bicycle(Not all bicycle-related clippings have the word 'bicycle' in them, but I created most before newspapers.com had tags, so they are mostly untagged. The earlier terms 'velocipede' and 'wheel' make useful search terms as well.)I originally did all this via my blog, and still have some of my favorite #OldTimey #bike stories there. Again, the #bicycle keyword makes a great search term:https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/search?q=bicycleI imagine this becoming a book.#sfbike #BikeTooter
(DIR) Post #AzeJ1ao2OA4YpPEUoi by ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
2025-10-27T14:53:43Z
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@morgan @ascentale @tregeagle @bikenite So interesting about the bicycle boom era, and how quickly it got squashed by automobiles.
(DIR) Post #AzeJ1bOuB5YyfkTwHY by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-27T23:02:30Z
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@ai6yr @morgan @ascentale @bikenite yes we definitely had a bicycle boom era here in Broken Hill which coincided with the huge mining boom. A turn of the century rubbish tip east of town is full of scraps of rusty bicycle parts buried in the dirt alongside an astronomical quantity of broken beer bottles.
(DIR) Post #AzeJ1eTyigP6ELsX6e by morgan@sfba.social
2025-10-27T16:19:56Z
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@lars_amenda ☝🏼
(DIR) Post #AzeKu5dU52PY2KqYfg by morgan@sfba.social
2025-10-27T23:23:30Z
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@tregeagle @ai6yr @ascentale @bikenite many of the early ride reports from 'club runs' involved stops at road houses, where the riders would stop to 'refresh the inner man.' I'm sure the ladies did something similar.
(DIR) Post #AzeXmfVG8ozoMfn6q8 by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-28T01:47:36Z
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@morgan @ai6yr @ascentale @bikenite well I guess that is what the Tour de France was famous for originally. Refreshing beers after a day in the saddle only later to evolve into red cell plasma infusions and other drug enhancing craziness. Amazing how competitiveness corrupts.
(DIR) Post #AzfHZAf85iHqqAuSqO by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-28T10:20:50Z
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@uxmark @ascentale @bikenite That's a great little story. What an awesome Dad.
(DIR) Post #Azg9Mylts0Wm0miDD6 by morgan@sfba.social
2025-10-28T20:23:41Z
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@tregeagle @ai6yr @ascentale @bikenite here's one of the more interesting articles I found, written by the current World Champion: https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2018/12/what-did-bicycle-riders-in-1890s-drink.htmlPlease pardon the weird formatting, I highlighted some sections but my blog's latest theme makes them hard to read.
(DIR) Post #AzgCXfFH6lUCV4Eqwq by bluestocking@sfba.social
2025-10-28T20:35:19Z
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@ascentale @tregeagle @bikenite This is my favorite that I found while researching female cyclists in 1890s San Francisco last semester
(DIR) Post #AzgCXgEbQkXhZGvpXU by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-28T20:59:08Z
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@bluestocking @ascentale @bikenite isn't that just fantastic. I love the little baby between those two bikes, I wonder what happened if they steer in opposite directions 😳It is a sweet photo.
(DIR) Post #AzgEd4nNjytX6AtsTw by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-28T21:22:35Z
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@morgan @ai6yr @ascentale @bikenite a lot of odd advice but much of it still stands, "Don't forget that in a collision between a wheel and a wagon the wagon never suffers."
(DIR) Post #Azgdq6TDK5neuYm8FU by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-29T02:05:06Z
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@nev @morgan @ai6yr @ascentale @bikenite I'd never heard of it...season 7 ep 2 Tour De Murdoch - thanks I might watch that tonight
(DIR) Post #Azi4G1IFz6BoLqd2hc by morgan@sfba.social
2025-10-29T17:20:28Z
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@bluestocking @ascentale @tregeagle @bikenite THE BICYCLE COUPLER. Ever since the invention of the bicycle, it has been regarded as more or less an unsociable diversion, or at least as not exactly suited to the needs of, say, a young married couple who liked to wheel, but didn't care to go out and leave the baby at home with the nurse. But now the kind inventor has come forward and done away with all these troubles of married wheel riders. The latest improvement for bicycles, says the Chicago Mail, is a frame which is known as a "coupler." It fastens two machines together. side by side, and makes a four-wheeled vehicle of them.1/nhttps://www.newspapers.com/article/san-francisco-chronicle-bicycle-coupler/183931485/
(DIR) Post #Azi4G2XXLm0SDWml9s by morgan@sfba.social
2025-10-29T17:22:18Z
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@bluestocking @ascentale @tregeagle @bikenite 2/3Two braced rods are clamped to the frames near the front and rear hubs and another rod holds the steering gear of each machine so that when the handle bar of either is turned the steering wheel of the other turns in the same direction. The apparatus is very simple, and adds only a few pounds to the weight of bicycles. With it a man can take his wife out for a ride with no necessity to study constantly to keep within conversing stance to her. To settle the baby question, all that is needed is some little improvement in the way of a seat which can be fastened in the ample space between the two wheels. A little tot could be strapped in it much as it is made fast to a high chair, and would enjoy the exhilaration of a spin through the parks as much as its parents.
(DIR) Post #Azi4G3dbGiRzccd7FQ by morgan@sfba.social
2025-10-29T17:22:39Z
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@bluestocking @ascentale @tregeagle @bikenite 3/3Few of the "couplers" are to be seen in use on Chicago's boulevards, though the very fact that anybody can ride with them - no balancing being necessary - will recommend them to many persons who are afraid to attempt cycling.
(DIR) Post #Azi4G4rohLPtR0Hz2u by tregeagle@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-10-29T18:35:48Z
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@morgan @bluestocking @ascentale @bikenite imagine cornering on that contraption!!
(DIR) Post #AziWiD5QWrbnkfrGSG by trouble@masto.ai
2025-10-29T23:54:42Z
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@tregeagle @morgan @bluestocking @ascentale @bikenite people still build them today. The best are welded. Sometimes they use hose clamps so it's "removable".