More than two centuries of bicycle history are on display at the Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen, Ohio, including early high-wheelers and safety bicycles, a 1901 ice bike and a kitschy 1949 Donald Duck artifact.
The museum owes its creation to the end of an era: the Schwinn era. The once-dominant American manufacturer, founded in 1895 by Ignaz Schwinn, went bankrupt in 1992. The Schwinn family’s collection of hundreds of bicycles was sold at auction in 1997.
There are other cycling artifacts in museums around the world. The Smithsonian and Henry Ford Museum of Innovation each have large bicycle collections. There are a handful of other dedicated bicycle museums scattered across the country, including the Bicycle Heaven Museum in Pittsburgh, the Houston Bicycle Museum, and the Marin Museum of Bicycling in Fairfax, California.
The term “taking a header” is said to have originated with these tall, unstable bicycles, as many riders flew face first over the handlebars. Annie Oakley claimed she was the first woman to ride a bicycle in London, and she did some fancy trick shooting while pedaling.
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