Pedaling History Special Events
Pedaling History Special Events
Get-togethers, Programs, and Show 'n' Tells
Call the Museum at 716-662-3853 for current
details!
There are always new additions to EVERY program. New programs are added frequently. All Events are FREE unless noted and are followed by an optional half-price ($3) Guided Tour of the Museum for participants. (+ denotes a small cost)
February
Black History Month
Call or Email for Date and
Time
Famous Black Bicyclists
New Material! "Major" Taylor was a real hero
to young American boys in the 1890s as he pursued and achieved a
personal goal to be America's and the world's first black athlete
to hold a world championship title. See a feature movie made in
Australia about his tumultuous years in Australian racing circuits
as he crusaded for ethics in racing while earning respect for the
equality of blacks with whites in bicycle racing. Sometimes, a double
feature: his "Tracks of Glory", the fastest bicycle rider
in the world, followed by "Bicycle Corps: America's Black Army
on Wheels",
a new video from PBS.
Visit The
Major Taylor Association's site for more information on America's
first black athlete, pictured above.
March or April
Women's History Month
Call or Email for Date and
Time Reservations
Come for Tea!
A favorite spring program, our social Victorian Tea celebrates
Women's History Month. Lady bicyclists helped transform the lives
of women from the strictly set rules of the early Victorian period
to the more practical and freer practices of the Gay Nineties. Fathers
and daughters may wish to invite mothers and grandmothers. Reservations,
please. (+)
A Past program
Available for a repeat performance
The Bicycle at the Pan-American
2001 celebrated the Centennial! As the automobile was
only in its infancy at the time, the bicycle was the transportation
of the multitudes in 1901.
How did it play a part in the Pan-American Exposition?
Learn of its role in that great event a century ago.
May
National Bicycle Month
Call or Email for Date and
Time each Spring
Our Traditional Classic Bike and Tandem Ride
"Old bikes and every age of rider"
Our Annual BIA* Day classic bike ride -- the Spring Rust
Buster! Get out that old classic 1960s or earlier bike and take
a short, leisurely ride with us, followed by a light picnic lunch
(+) at the Museum. Swap Meet for the collectors from 8:00 a.m. In
case of rain, there will be an indoor program museum tour and video.
*Bicycle Institute of America
July
Call or Email for Date and
Time
Fourth of July Parade
Be a part of our next parade!
Your bicycle or ours!
With decorated Bicycles from Erie County Communities -
Our Annual parade ride with your Patriotic or Theme decorated bikes
and ours or your bicycles of the past. Advance registration preferred.
Ride your bike or ours. Call for full information and registration.
Young and old invited...
February
Black History Month
Call or Email for Date and
Time
Famous Black Bicyclists
New Material! "Major" Taylor was a real hero to young American boys in the 1890s as he pursued and achieved a personal goal to be America's and the world's first black athlete to hold a world championship title. See a feature movie made in Australia about his tumultuous years in Australian racing circuits as he crusaded for ethics in racing while earning respect for the equality of blacks with whites in bicycle racing. Sometimes, a double feature: his "Tracks of Glory", the fastest bicycle rider in the world, followed by "Bicycle Corps: America's Black Army on Wheels",
a new video from PBS.
Visit The Major Taylor Association's site for more information on America's first black athlete, pictured above.
March or April
Women's History Month
Call or Email for Date and
Time Reservations
Come for Tea!
A favorite spring program, our social Victorian Tea celebrates Women's History Month. Lady bicyclists helped transform the lives of women from the strictly set rules of the early Victorian period to the more practical and freer practices of the Gay Nineties. Fathers and daughters may wish to invite mothers and grandmothers. Reservations, please. (+)
A Past program
Available for a repeat performance
The Bicycle at the Pan-American
2001 celebrated the Centennial! As the automobile was only in its infancy at the time, the bicycle was the transportation of the multitudes in 1901.
How did it play a part in the Pan-American Exposition?
Learn of its role in that great event a century ago.
May
National Bicycle Month
Call or Email for Date and
Time each Spring
Our Traditional Classic Bike and Tandem Ride
"Old bikes and every age of rider"
Our Annual BIA* Day classic bike ride -- the Spring Rust Buster! Get out that old classic 1960s or earlier bike and take a short, leisurely ride with us, followed by a light picnic lunch (+) at the Museum. Swap Meet for the collectors from 8:00 a.m. In case of rain, there will be an indoor program museum tour and video.*Bicycle Institute of America
July
Call or Email for Date and Time
Fourth of July Parade
Be a part of our next parade!
Your bicycle or ours!
With decorated Bicycles from Erie County Communities -
Our Annual parade ride with your Patriotic or Theme decorated bikes and ours or your bicycles of the past. Advance registration preferred. Ride your bike or ours. Call for full information and registration. Young and old invited...
August
Generally, no special programs are scheduled during he Summer months.
Pedaling History was proud to host the
The Wheelmen National Meet in Buffalo
in August of 2001
It was a Special Opportunity to see hundreds of vintage antique bicycles ridden by
period-dressed riders as the national club, The Wheelmen, came to Buffalo for their 34th annual meeting.
September
A program scheduled for each year.
Call or Email for Date and Time
each Spring
A recent example:
The Bicycle in the Artist's Eye
Artists, both professional and amateur, have long used the bicycle as a subject for their expression, using media including pen and ink, etchings, oils, watercolors, aquatints, to rotogravure printing, color lithography, and photography.
The bicycle image has also been used on dishes, jewelry, sculptures, and in countless other materials. Bicycle makers have also been artists in design as well
as mechanics; we'll check out some of these as well.
October
Call or Email for Date and Time each Spring
Now & Then - Recycled Cycling Ideas
Are you following all of the new products for today's cyclists? New products are constantly being advertised as "new". If not new products, they proclaim new improvements of bicycles and/or bicycle accessories. But are they really new? This eye-opening program addresses the idea that we are not as creative as we think we are. Many of these "new" products are just modern applications of products and patented ideas of as much as 100 years ago.
and Every Fall we hold our
Annual Bicycle Racers Reunion
Call or Email for Date and Time each Spring
Add your name to our list of racers.If you've competitively raced a bicycle anytime in the past 100 years, bring your mementos and join our group sharing a couple hours reminiscing with your competitors. We want to hear your first hand favorite story or memory of bicycle racing in Western New York or elsewhere.
November
Call or Email for Date and Time
When the Bicycle Came to Buffalo
There's always New Material! Hear details of the author's continuing research and documentation of our local bicycle history as he reviews Buffalo's Bicycles: Buffalo's Bicycle heritage.
December
Call or Email for Date and Time each Spring
Our Annual Program of Bicycle Music
Our traditional Christmastide program of Bicycle Music. Hear some of those hundreds of wonderful old bicycle songs -- marches, love songs, comedy songs, and more -- that entertained the cyclists and others in the Gay Nineties! Did you know they advertised bicycle manufacturers and bicycle clubs with popular songs that were sung in the taverns and parlours back then? Perhaps sing along on a few.
The program ends with a few Christmas carols, 12 days of Christmas, and "cookies and cheer" (+).
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