April 28 1914 Bicycling and Motorcycle review

[hoofhearted]

If there was a big bicycle boom pre-1914 .. this typer believes that boom was related to at least
two of the following three ... The Safety Bicycle ... The Female, Drop-Top Tube Safety Bicycle ...
The Dunlop Pneumatic Tire.

Just can't assign a year.

.......... patric


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[fordsnake]

The introduction of the motorcycle and the automobile were the pins that deflated the bicycle industry.

98% of pre 1900 were made for adults – a utilitarian mode of transportation!

Once the motorcycle craze (post 1900) swept the country, almost every bike manufacture transition to making a motorcycle. The motorcycle trend quickly dissipated with the introduction of the automobile! Adults quickly adopted to sans physical exertion and luxury comfort.

Once this behavior model became the excepted norm, (1905-1920's?) the bicycle market lost its glimmer!

Bike manufactures quickly looked for new avenues to sell product and found it in a younger market...promoting and selling to young boys! Bike designs quickly took on the styles of pseudo motorbikes, replicas of their Dad's or the big brothers' motorcycles.

 

[fat tire trader]

I agree with Patric, that the big boom year was a year when more bikes were produced than other years. Like I said before, I'm guessing that the year was closer to 1900, for the same reasons that Fordsnake states, although, those reasons I considered obvious and not worth mentioning. Sitting on my doorstep right now is a box containing a TOC Schwinn World tandem. I wonder what questions I will have once it is unboxed. I now own 4 TOC tandems, an Ide, a Rambler, a Columbus and now a Schwinn. I also have a Colson, a Schwinn Town and Country, a highly mountainbiked Schwinn Twin, a Rollfast and two Santana tandems. How many can I ride at once? I'm getting dizzy thinking about it.

 

[Balloontyre]

A new thread catagory

Pre Boom!!

This thread is boomin with great stuff.

 

[fordsnake]

 

[bricycle]

Pre Boom!!

This thread is boomin with great stuff.

..hey Balloon, you have room for some pre-boom?

 

[bricycle]

thanks for setting the record straight Carlton.

see, 1897 is "close to" 1898....
...but it's not Rare....... oh, that was another thread....

 

[fat tire trader]

Now that is the answer that I was looking for 1897 Thanks!

 

[catfish]

Wow! Very cool info!!!! Thanks for posting this.

 

[Balloontyre]

5 more...enjoy!

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what bike is the bottom right? under the Merkle