Cycling History Lectures

[DebW]

The exhibit will be up until May 20. Click on "Calendar" and it will open a pdf file. Wonder if this is almost the same exhibit that the Museum of Our National Heritage in Lexington had a few years ago. The CRMI always has some old bicycles on display - one with wooden rims. But I'll definitely try to see the current exhibit, and maybe attend both lectures.

[DebW]

The exhibit will be up until May 20. Click on "Calendar" and it will open a pdf file. Wonder if this is almost the same exhibit that the Museum of Our National Heritage in Lexington had a few years ago. The CRMI always has some old bicycles on display - one with wooden rims. But I'll definitely try to see the current exhibit, and maybe attend both lectures.

I saw the exhibit after the lecture on Thursday. It's mostly highwheel bikes and a few boneshakers from the personal collection of the guy who gave the lecture. It was an interesting lecture, covering the earliest bikes in the US and the development of the industry in Boston, Hartford, and Springfield from early 1800 til about 1890. The lecturer rides and restores highwheelers and talked about how fun they are to ride and how quiet.