Category: Recreation & Leisure, Sports, Cycles & cycling
Item 4233
League of American Wheelmen, Belfast, 1891
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1891-05-30 Location: Belfast Media: Photographic print
Item 8142
Start of Bicycle Race, Fairfield, 1887
Contributed by: Skowhegan History House Date: 1887 Location: Fairfield Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Success at riding a bike mirrored success in life. Bicycling could bring families together. Bicycling was good for one's health. Bicycling was fun. Bicycles could go fast. Such were some of the arguments made to induce many thousands of people around Maine and the nation to take up the new pastime at the end of the nineteenth century.
