Showing posts with label bicycle history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bicycle history. Show all posts

Monday, April 20, 2009

Start 'em Off Young

On Saturday I did a breakfast ride with my bike club. It's the same ride we've done several times before so I guess that makes it a commute, right? Anyway, there were about a dozen bikes from our bike club locked up together.



As we came around the front of the building, I saw that we weren't the only ones who rode. There was also a charming Raleigh Spite locked up to a sign.



And what's this on the other side? A small bike...



Well, we went in and had breakfast, and as we were leaving we met the owner of the Sprite and his son. What I thought was a trail-a-bike was actually just a coupling tube that linked the two bikes together. Dad still had pretty much full control of where son went, but the son had more freedom than on a single wheel trail-a-bike. It was pretty cool.





Another bike commuter in the making!

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Commuting in Barcelona, 1908



...and it's just that easy.

The soundtrack music is pretty nice too.

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