#history of the bicycle

[yeoldenews]

I will never be as charismatic as this child.

(source: The Tampa Tribune, December 22, 1901.)

[happyzenmonk]

A poor kid with his self-made wooden bicycle, 1912.

source: old mind,fb

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

Traffic Outside Music City Record Store (1974) via Hennepin County Library

[sovietpostcards]

Bicycle travellers in Moscow oblast, Russia (1985)

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Aftermath of a bicycle accident. 1963 in Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine.

[lookiamnotshameless]

I like to imagine that the Bad Friends Trio shade Roderich all the time when they're sober, but when they get really drunk, he becomes Europe's No. 1 taboo topic.

If anyone mentions Roderich while these three got drunk out of their brains, Gilbert gets weepy and angry and all kinds of unintelligible annoying drunkard about how he's been extremely down bad for Roderich ever since the nth century and that asshole keeps choosing anyone, anyone in Europe other than him. He did so much! He kind of tore Roderich's shit apart! And Roderich wouldn't even look at him!

Which makes Antonio start talking about the 200 years he was married to Roderich, not because he wants to hurt Gilbert or because he's jealous, but because he's the sort of drunk who likes to rant and rave about happy times to assert some control over his memories of them after they've slipped out of his hands probably unto forever.

Which makes Gilbert weep worse. Which makes Francis, who's the only one here who actually got to have something with Roderich without putting his entire heart into it, start talking how he totally understands, because Roderich was extremely hot when he was losing a war or when he does this and that. Which makes everything spiral down a drain REALLY FAST.

Bonus funnies if they were doing this in a Swiss bar and got thrown out of the entire country, only to be stalked by a Bastard Frypan Demon From Hell, who may or may not be there for either their blood or their deets.

[kafkasapartment]

The Kiddies' Motor Wheel was a bizarre motorized contraption designed for toddlers in 1927. It consisted of a large wheel with a seat in the middle, allowing a small child to ride inside and control the direction by leaning. Despite practicality, similar monowheel designs are still being manufactured today for adults as recreational vehicles.

[the-northern-owl]

Трое на велосипеде. 1920-е

Three on a one bike. 1920s

[ghw-archive]

Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Waco, Texas, 1913. Colourised by Marina Amaral

[beetlesanbutterflies]

Okay maybe i was assuming things, but the vibe i was getting is that creature being a Penny Farthing guy when he was alive is a huge joke in the fandom. Like we all collectively think he was obsessed with his fucking bicycle and its hilarious. I've been planning on putting it in my fics, i've been making jokes about this man and HIS FUCKING BICYCLE

WELL!

I just found out that because he died in 1837, HE WOULDN'T EVEN FUCKING KNOW WHAT A PENNY FARTHING IS!!?

[lotusinjadewell]

Hội An, Vietnam. Credit to truong.howard (Instagram).

[yeoldenews]

I will never be as cool as this man.

(source: Catalog for J. Foot & Son's Rest Chairs, 1913.)

[prolificpencomics]

Historic Pen Comics 1

[postcardsfromwanderings]

Boy on a bicycle in front of the Hazrati Imam Mosque, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

[sovietpostcards]

Kosoi sidestreet in Moscow. Photo by Vladimir Bogdanov (spring 1978).

[daguerreotyping]

Cabinet card of four members of the Bay City Wheelmen bicycle club, 1890