17 February 2020

When Today Was Bicycle Day

Today is Presidents’ Day in the US.  Previously, it was celebrated as Washington’s Birthday, which was declared a Federal holiday in 1885.

That was on the eve of America’s first Bicycle Boom.  So, as this holiday is today an occasion for sales on bedding, at that time new bike models were rolled out (pun intended).

Four years ago, I wrote a post about it.  


3 comments:

  1. Oh dear, the name of this day has been completely devalued...

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  2. Thanks for your post. I’ve been thinking about writing a very comparable post over the last couple of weeks, I’ll probably keep it short and sweet and link to this instead if thats cool. Thanks. road bicycle rims

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  3. Voyage—I agree!

    Anon—You can link this post—or a longer one I wrote on the same subject: https://midlifecycling.blogspot.com/2016/02/when-this-day-was-bicycle-day.html?m=1

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