Excerpts from documentary: Victorian Cycles-Wheels of Change
Nice collection of excerpts on Vimeo from the 2004 documentary “Victorian Cycles-Wheels of Change”:
http://vimeo.com/album/171723/format:detail
Producer and Director Jim Kellett also has some of these on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/jimkellett2008#g/u
…and a nice collection of stills on Flickr:
Much of this centered around Denver, Colorado in the 1890′s…
Tks
LocK
Posted: December 6th, 2010
Author: lock
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Thanks for the links.
I watched “First Bike Ride Up Pikes Peak”. Fascinating, chock-full of facts: Un-paved roads – of coarse, ‘just a cleared cart track’. Direct drive power train, I like that term. All machined parts rather than forged. Wow.
I saw a bike on Jones Ave recently with that un-cabled break system, rods connecting levers to the rubbing mechanism, beautiful.
At the Youtube link, “Womens Liberation and the Bicycle” quotes an 1890′s cycling publication encouraging women to don shorter shirts, and even knickerbockers(!), and “scorch the boulevard” on your bicycle!
Cycling is definitely revolutionary.
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