Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Links

New Bike Path!! (1896) - Brooklynology , with some handy Eagle tips on riding etiquette.  Current riders might want to check them out.  Only twenty years earlier, bicycling was not looked upon favorably:

In 1873 Brooklyn's aldermen passed a law banning bicycles from city thoroughfares during daylight hours, and a few years later, the Eagle declared that one of the only excuses for the bicycle's existence was "the larger chance of the non-survival of the unfittest -- being those who ride the velocipede -- through accident."

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