In Buffalo's Bicycles the author has carefully chosen, organized,
and presented significant historical facts of Buffalo, New York's,
bicycle industry and bicycling records. He has added personal lore
and period images, combining these elements into a book that explores
and showcases the nearly forgotten but colorful times in Buffalo's
proud past.
Buffalo's love affair with the bicycle was all-encompassing. By the
late 1890s it had involved a significant percentage of Buffalo's population.
Its exciting effect on society and sports was no less than its impact
on business and commerce. Buffalo's Bicycles will introduce
you to some of the people who shaped this little-known heritage that
left influences and impressions on Buffalo for decades thereafter.
It you're not a native Buffalonian or Western New Yorker, you will
still learn the basic bicycle history background with its emphasis
on America's fervent development of the machine, the many patents,
the social aspects, the Good Roads Movement, and the exciting racing.
Buffalo's rich heritage in text and photographs quickly makes you
aware that this truly colorful, dramatic, and influential period affected
much of the eastern United States.
Was there a bicycle in your past?? Even if not,
...
... many non-bicycle people find that this history has surprising
asides that kindle and tickle much nostalgia. The taken-for-granted
bicycle, through its popular and everyday usage, has touched nearly
everyone's life at one time or another, generally in a pleasurable
and memorable way!
