Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles
Pram Side Car
The antecedent of all those modern tagalong baby trailers.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 31, 2018 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Babies and Toddlers, 1950s
Brazilian bus driver training
In Cariacica, Brazil, part of the bus driver training is to have the drivers ride on a stationary bike while a bus zooms by them at top speed, to give them a sense of how cyclists feel.It seems like with each pass the bus got closer.
via bicycling.com
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 25, 2018 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Bus
Rollerskating as Art
This artform is pretty well extinct, so far as I can tell.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 30, 2018 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, 1930s, Dance
Debutante Soapbox Racing
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 16, 2018 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, 1950s, Women
Sky Riders
Probably the apex of the hang-glider craze.
Robert Culp plays Bracken, whose life seems perfect until his wife Ellen and their children are kidnapped by terrorists one day. After failed attempts to capture them back by the police, Ellen's ex husband enters the fray and plans his own rescue attempt. James Coburn plays McCabe, Ellen's ex-husband who hires a crew of professional hang gliders to help him rescue her and the kids from the terrorist's mountain top lair.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 03, 2018 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Crime, Daredevils, Stuntpeople and Thrillseekers, Movies, 1970s
Supergeared Bicycle
Are supergeared bicycles that will ride at super fast speeds an actual thing? Or did this guy just build a complicated derailleur system?
News Herald - Oct 5, 1953
Another better quality image from Popular Mechanics (July 1954).
Posted By: Alex - Tue Aug 15, 2017 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, 1950s
Streamlined ice cream tricycle
Streamlined for speed? Also, nice hairdo.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jul 14, 2017 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, 1930s
Richie Jackson Skateboarding
Four million views, but perhaps new to YOU!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Sep 29, 2016 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Eccentrics, Human Marvels, Sports
Odd Bicycles
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 18, 2016 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Eccentrics, Inventions, 1930s
Tricycle Black Maria
Served the extra duty of public humiliation of criminal.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 11, 2016 -
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Category: Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Cops, Crime, Inventions, Nineteenth Century
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