Cyclist Merit Badge-Girl Scouts 1920

[Lifesgreat]

Being the mother of (only) girls, we would have a fun time with the book. With money burning on a gift card, I bought it at Barnes and Noble last month. It is a fun read. I wouldn't follow some of its first aid advice, though.

[Tuckervill]

I have old Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls manuals (real ones, not reprints). They're great for ideas for crafts and skills we wouldn't necessarily run across today.

I also have the Handy Book for Boys and (I think it's called) The Dangerous Book for Boys. The Handy Book was written by one of the guys who founded Boy Scouts. It shows how to make fish hooks and build fires and make silhouette puppet shows! It has a whole section on how to go out in the woods and spend the night by yourself, with nothing but a knife, I think. My son loves both of those books.

When I was in the National Guard, I had Guard plates on my car, and that meant my car could be commandeered by the gov't. if it came to it. It's appalling now, but back in the 40s, we would have thought nothing of it, you know?

Karen

[mimitabby]

i was enjoying the vision of soldiers commandering children's bicycles "in time of need"
kind of funny from a 21st century perspective.

[Lifesgreat]

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I also have the Handy Book for Boys and (I think it's called) The Dangerous Book for Boys. The Handy Book was written by one of the guys who founded Boy Scouts. It shows how to make fish hooks and build fires and make silhouette puppet shows! It has a whole section on how to go out in the woods and spend the night by yourself, with nothing but a knife, I think. My son loves both of those books.


Karen

Santa is bringing The Daring Book for Girls to my girls next Monday night! It is the "female" counterpart to the The Dangerous Book for Boys.

[Flybye]

It's interesting that you really don't have to ride the bike much to get the badge!!!

#4 and #6 sound like you need to be on the bike to do them, but you could do them both on the same ride, same day, and do them on a 10 foot slab of pavement on the way to a campsite.

Interesting!!

[bmccasland]

It's interesting that you really don't have to ride the bike much to get the badge!!!

#4 and #6 sound like you need to be on the bike to do them, but you could do them both on the same ride, same day, and do them on a 10 foot slab of pavement on the way to a campsite.

Interesting!!

It could be the difference between a Junior Scout or a Cadette Scout badge. Considering the era, I wouldn't even begin to venture a guess.

[SouthernBelle]

Now I'm curious. Is there a present day equivalent badge and what are the requirements?

Anybody know???

[OakLeaf]

Now I'm curious. Is there a present day equivalent badge and what are the requirements?

Anybody know???

Well a quick 'net search turns up a "Rolling Along" interest project award, that has pictures of bicycles on the badge! The requirements aren't available online though. Anybody have a book?

[Bad JuJu]

Santa is bringing The Daring Book for Girls to my girls next Monday night! It is the "female" counterpart to the The Dangerous Book for Boys.

I sent my niece The Daring Book for Girls for Christmas. I didn't see anything in it specifically about cycling, but it has a nice mix of crafts, sports, and intellectual pursuits, and it seemed like a book I'd have loved to have when I was a girl.

[mimitabby]

here we go: I own a 1910 boyscout handbook:
Cycling

To obtain a merit badge for cycling a Scout must:
1. Ride a bicycle 50 miles in 10 hours
2. Repair a puncture
3. Take apart and clean a bicycle, and put it together again properly
4. Demonstrate how to make reports, if sent out scouting on a road.
5. read a map; and report correctly verbal messages.

[KnottedYet]

SKnot's dad was a scout leader until the scouts decided any g@y person or relative of a g@y person could not participate. Then he (and the other 3 leaders of SKnot's pack) decided that wasn't the organization they wanted to be in.

Never did get into any independent scout-ish activities, but I did try to teach SKnot how to care for his bikes.