- - - - - - - - Select a Year or an Event - - - - - - - - Home The Wheel 19th Century Bicycle News 1869 - The Velocipede 1869 - Progress of the Velocipede 1869 - Improved Three-Wheeled Velocipede 1880 - Salem, Oregon Post Office 1881 - A Bicycle Era 1884 - Taming the Bicycle 1885 - Manitou Springs, Colorado 1887 - The Columbia Bicycle Calendar for 1887 1887 - Around the World on a Bicycle 1890 1891 - Application of Rubber to Bicycle Wheels 1892 - The Lovell Diamond Safety Bicycle 1892 - . . . from New York to Chicago 1892 - A Bicycle Built For Two 1893 - Cycle-Infantry Drill Regulations 1893 - . . .Relations to the Physician 1893 - The Evolution of the Bicycle 1893 - Kyphosis Bicyclistarum 1893 - Aluminum for Bicycles 1893 - Bicycle Power-Plating Dynamo 1894 - Bicycle for the Park Police 1894 - Across Asia on a Bicycle: 1 1894 - Across Asia on a Bicycle: 2 1894 - Across Asia on a Bicycle: 3 1894 - Across Asia on a Bicycle: 4 1894 - The Search-Light Bicycle Lantern 1894 - Improved Pneumatic Saddle 1894 - An Improvement in Valves 1894 - The Reign of the Bicycle 1895 1895 - Bicycle Paths 1895 - T.R. & The Scorcher Squad 1895 - The Wheel Of To-Day 1895 - Woman And The Bicycle 1895 - A Doctor's View Of Bicycling 1895 - Bicycle Problems and Benefits 1895 - All Paris A-Wheel 1896 - Willson Park Bicycle Race Track 1896 - A Long Chase 1896 May 28, 1896 - Henry Ford's Bicycle Chain 1896 - The Rule of the Bicycle 1896 - The Bicycle Outlook 1896 - Bicycling for Women 1896 - American Bicycles in England June 14, 1897 - U.S. Army Bicycle Corps 1897 - Dangers and Benefits of the Bicycle 1898 - Over the Alps on a Bicycle 1899 - The Spanish-American War June 30, 1899 - Mile-A-Minute Murphy Aug. 10, 1899 - Salem, Oregon train station 1900 Dec. 17, 1903 - Wright Cycle Company 1905 1905 - In My Merry Oldsmobile 1908 - T.R. & the Siuslaw 1910 The Automobile Black Bicyclists 4th of July Kinetic Sculpture Racing L.B.S. Nellie & Susan & Frances The Racers X-Bikes Links

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Photographer unknown. Salem Public Library Historic Photograph Collections 1910  A line of motorcyclists show off their bikes in front of the City Bicycle Hospital in Portland. The craze for the "wheel" has been replaced with the passion for a "motor." The bicycle would make its comeback in 1981 when Specialized introduced the first mass-produced mountain bike, the $750 Stump Jumper. The National Sporting Goods Association Sports Participation in 2000 report shows an increase in bicycle riding to 42.5 million Americans. In 1998, cycling generated $5.8 billion in bicycle product sales. The only other recreational sports that came close to reaching those numbers were golf at $4.8 billion and running at $2.1 billion. Advertising Ephemera Collection in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University 1914  Sears Roebuck and Co. shipped bicycles across the country creating and revolutionizing the mail-order industry and installment buying. The top-of-the-line World Supreme New Master Bicycle, Coaster Model sold for $26.95.The 1914 catalog promoted the Kenwood Bicycle, "A Big Value in a Low Priced Bicycle," for $11.95. "This bicycle would cost you elsewhere from $15.00 to $18.00. A striking example of our low prices, made possible by our factory to customer direct plan, with only one profit added to the manufacturing cost. This bicycle contains good material and is the best value ever offered in a low priced bicycle." Kenwood continues as a Sears brand for home appliances and consumer electronics. The same catalog introduced the 1914 Model 9-Horse Power De Luxe Sears Auto-Cycle motorcycle. Sears sold as many as 100,000 bicycles a year during the late 1890s through its catalog. Photograph by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration 1939  Three of the four Arnold children. The oldest boy earned the money to buy his bicycle. Michigan Hill, Thurston County, Western Washington. Dorothea Lange was a legendary photojournalist whose images chronicled the Depression and World War II for the U.S. government and LIFE magazine. Her photograph of a Migrant Mother is one of the defining American images of the 20th century.		Advertising Ephemera Collection in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University 1914 - Bike of the U.S.A. Sears Roebuck and Co. shipped bicycles across the country creating and revolutionizing the mail-order industry and installment buying, selling as many as 100,000 bicycles a year during the late 1890s through its catalog. The top-of-the-line World Supreme New Master Bicycle, Coaster Model sold for $26.95. The 1914 catalog promoted the Kenwood Bicycle, "A Big Value in a Low Priced Bicycle," for $11.95. Next: X-Bikes See 19th Century Bicycle News for a selected bibliography and historical resources online, or use the links to find other sites of interest. Copyright © 2001  Dennis Cowals All rights reserved.