Spacelander bicycle, by Benjamin G. Bowden. Designed 1946, manufactured 1960. In the collection of the Brooklyn Museum.
Breathtaking.
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After close to eight months of biking across China from Shanghai to the Burmese border in 1892/3 (during which time he was stoned, beaten, robbed, and forced to walk most of the way since the roads weren’t bike-ready), Frank Lenz summed up his trip in a letter home: “God help the unfortunate cycler or traveller who crosses China. I could never do it again.”
(For more on Lenz’s China adventures, see David Herlihy’s The Lost Cyclist.)
Queensland cyclist, R. James on rear steering rotary tricycle, c1884.
(John Oxley Library image no. 41584)
(text and picture from John Oxley Library Blog)
Glen Plourde, “Late Day Mirage,” unknown