1900 Rambler and 1900 Pierce-Arrow

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By: The Bicycle Museum of America

Date: 1900

Source: 1900 Rambler and 1900 Pierce-Arrow. The Bicycle Museum of America. Available online at http://www.bicyclemuseum.com/Html/bike6.html; website home page: http://www.bicyclemuseum.com (accessed March 14, 2003).

About the Organization: The Bicycle Museum of America opened on July 23, 1997, in New Bremen, Ohio. Among its collection are nineteenth-century antiques, balloon-tire classics from the 1940s, and the banana seat bikes of the 1960s. Its oldest bicycle is an 1816 German model and its most recent a 1998 Huffy touring bike, the last model manufactured in Ohio.

Introduction

Between roughly 1890 and 1910, an interest in bicycling for health and recreation swept the United States. Physicians touted the...

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