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     Don Sands Moderator Username: admin Post Number: 431 Registered: 05-2006 |
1896, North Dakota  "What's changed in a hundred years? Dirt house. Dirty old -- and young -- men. Dirt bikes. Then, they were daring wheelmen, scorching along dirt tracks, terrifying horses and livestock long before automobiles and attracting the attentions of the opposite sex with their revolutionary behavior. Today, they could be posing for their local mountain bike club photo, but they're too overdressed and sod houses have gone the way of the plains buffalo. The men are as ordinary as their descendants and their bicycles look remarkably like today's newest hardtail trail models. "This photograph was taken at the peak of the bicycle craze that swept America in the 1890s. The shiny bicycles cost as much as $150 which represented four to six months' wages for the average worker." . |
