Wright Brothers Day

[partsguy]

I picked up the high wheel bike from Carillon Park the day before the event, and I have to say that loading that heavy bike in and out of the elevator was a challenge. I am sure I looked hilarious to people who didn't know what it was for!

I was eventually one of four people selected to represent WSU and the AMA at the national conference in New Orleans. Very proud moment!

 

[facair55]

Condensed History of Wright Brothers bicycles given out at the event

 

[Freqman1]

Condensed History of Wright Brothers bicycles given out at the event

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So I took a pic of the bike at the Air and Space museum (Smithsonian) in D.C. but can't remember the badge. Is this a clone? V/r Shawn

 

[facair55]

So I took a pic of the bike at the Air and Space museum (Smithsonian) in D.C. but can't remember the badge. Is this a clone? V/r Shawn

My research shows the location of the remaining five Wright Brothers bicycles as stated in the above post (#12). So it's probably a clone. Most of the original bikes were destroyed in the Dayton Flood in 1913.

 

[Freqman1]

I've seen the ones at Carillon Park and at the Museum of the Air Force. If memory serves the one at the Air and Space Museum in DC had a ND rear hub on it and not the proprietary Wright hub so that bike could very well be bogus. V/r Shawn

 

[PhilipJ]

I was at the national air and space museum in DC two years ago. The wright bicycle they have on display is not a clone. It is one of the few remaining originals.

 

[PhilipJ]

I think the Ford museum only has one.

 

[Dweber]

Are there none known in private hands?

 

[partsguy]

Are there none known in private hands?

There are no known privately-owned Wright bicycles. If another one were to surface, it would be on CNN, Fox, and USA Today. It would be like another Tucker automobile was discovered, or a missing WWI aircraft.

 

[partsguy]

I wonder, are there any production numbers out there, as to how many they made?