Bike craze

In the 1890’s, with the appearance of the “safety bicycle” with its identical size wheels, chain-driven rear wheel and pneumatic tires, the bike, for the very first time, ceased to be a caprice of young aristocratic sportsmen, and became an everyday transport tool and – with the development of railroads – even a kind of a one-man branch-line for commuters. On the first bicycle craze it brought along we have much more vintage photos than on the paleocycles. The about sixty ones below are but a selection which could be easily continued, and we will continue it indeed when new ones will pop up and if our readers will help us as well.







And once we seem to have a kind of Lwów weeks here at Río Wang, let us see, as a bonus, some bike photos from Lemberg in the 1890’s, from proidysvit’s blog.