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- This video is a walk-through of the Bicycle Museum of America in New Bremen, Ohio. Earlier the same day I visited the (Neil) Armstrong Air & Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio
I follow this video with a visit to the MAPS Air Museum in North Canton, Ohio, before heading to other museums in Ohio.
thanks for taking me along!! did not see my bike in there.. think mine is a 1938. not 100% sure. its a BF Goodrich Challenger.. got some vid of me saving it..
Great tour of a great museum.
7:38 The Hickory line. I looked it up. Here it is ….. “A number of attempts were made a few years ago to introduce hickory wheels in place of the wire suspension wheels, among the most notable being a bicycle built by Sterling Elliott, and called the Hickory. The frame was built of tubing as was usual, but the wheels - hubs, spokes and rims - were made of hickory, the spokes being known as radial spokes. In order to maintain its rigidness and to carry the pneumatic tyre the rim was surrounded by a metallic band in which the tyre was placed.
- The modern Bicycle and its Accessories, by Alex Schwalbach and Julies Wilcox, 1898.”
Thank you for venturing into Ohio for this interesting tour. 🎟
Interesting to see how much variation (experimentation?) there was at the turn of the 20th century with head tube angle (some quite steep) and trail.
I remember my friend had an orange crate back in 1970 and he was the envy of everybody on our block.
Great video. Thank you
Wow, always liked your videos. Didn't know you were a Wheelman. I'm the son of the nut from Michigan that rode tons of miles on his White Flyer until he sold it. The mechanism in the rear hub is a differntial that raises one pedal when you push down on the other. So you have to lift the weight of your legs, it basically rides like a "stair master".
There's another bicycle museum in Sparta, Wisconsin. It also has a museum for one of the Apollo astronauts (I can't remember which one) it's just off Interstate I-90 in west central Wisconsin.
The Sparta museum is rather tiny compared to this one. And the astronaut you are thinking of was Deke Slayton, who hailed from Sparta or that neighborhood.
I really enjoyed that Paul. Thanks.
Fascinating tour. It is enlightening to see the level of sophistication in bikes made in the late 1800s. I wonder how effective the military bicycles were. Too bad that recumbents were not on display except for the one that hinted at recumbent design.
Great video of the museum and collection. I must point out an error in the description of the maker of the Ingo Bike. The Ingersoll Steel and Disc Co. was not part of Ingersol-Rand Co. It was a division of Borg Warner Corp. They made the disc’s used in farm machinery for plowing. The production of the Ingo Bike was discontinued to begin war production for WWII. In fact the Ingersoll Steel Division produced 2306 LVT-3 (20%) of the Landing Craft made during the war. It’s the landing craft you see in movies with the troops landing on the beaches. Again great video
Youtuuba, I have a 1966 Schwinn Stingray I bought brand new when I was eleven. It's still in my garage. As I watched your film, I saw a few bikes similar to the Stingray, but don't remember actually see one in your video. Did I miss it, or did the museum not have one? Thanks in advance! BTW, great video, thanks! 9/04/2021
wilig, there are bikes of that kind in the museum and in my video.
There is bicycle shop/museum that is near Pittsburgh its called Bicycle Heaven its just as big and has a lot of rare bike's
jonathan1985 howell, apparently Bicycle Heaven has a lot more bikes than BMOA, but from what I have heard from folks who have visited both places, Bicycle Heaven has a lot more of fewer types and styles, but BMOA has a much wider range of different types. Bicycle Heaven is/was the collection of one man who reportedly collected types he was interested in, while BMOA is basically the former Schwinn Bicycle Museum of Chicago, purchased and relocated to Ohio.
Next time I get to the Pittsburgh area, I hope to look in on Bicycle Heaven.
Good thing about pandemic is it acclereated the life for all of us (for better or worse unfortunately). There are so many museums, so many countries, so many interesting places to visit which we would never visit otherwise in this short, short, short lifespan of ours if it is not for videos like these. I mean come'on in the middle of Ohio... who would make the time and energy for the trek if not the odds of being there are very low.
Love videos like this with the intro! This gives a sense of adventure and anticipation.
Real map books. Only way to travel. I was hoping to see the bike I had for years and years A Schwinn 2-speed Kick Back Typhoon.
36:21
The Strano, made by Union Bicycles in the Netherlands. That style is the Velocino. Raleigh made one at the same time that was called a donkey bike.
Part of the design is that the long stem is reversible if you want the handlebars in front instead of underneath.
Velocinos were invented in Italy in the early 1930s. they never caught on, but they also never went away. I think two different companies make velocinos right now.
I want one, just to try out.
The Pedi-Plane would now be considered a compact long wheel base recumbent, like my BikeE. That's my normal go-to bike, although I also have an ATP Vision with the front wheel under my knees.
It was a fairly common design bank in the mid-30s. triumph had their Moller and in France there was the Velostable and the Sironvel Sportplex.
Claude, the Strano looks like it would suffer from a tendency to tip over backwards pretty easily, much like the Highwheel Safeties of the late 1800s, such as the Star and the Eagle. Probably have to make sure that care is taken when climbing hills, or accelerating quickly.
Road trip video or bicycle museum video?
How many high wheels are they ?
and what are the different sizes of the wheels ?
Great place to visit … maybe leave out personal comments.. like Lemon peeler more popular than Apple Krate Schwinn . Apple and Orange Krates out sold all… shoulda moved through at steady pace.. missed a lot of the vintage 1800’s bikes. Seemed fixed on address confusion…
mikeleiby6737, it is amazing that you can make some of these criticisms. I showed every bike that was on display when I was there, I did not 'miss' any. As for personal comments, this is a personal video so I certainly feel free to put my thoughts into it.....I did not tailor it for YOU! And why you think I was fixated on the address issue is a mystery; I made a point of it because it might be confusing to other prospective visitors....but you make it sound like I was going on about it all through the video.
Did you stop at the Annie Oakley museum?
John P, No. Not interested, and out of time anyway.
Well, if you make it to 17 West Monroe St. and you can’t find the bicycle museum NEXT TO IT, then I’m not sure what to say.
Well, it is not as silly as it may sound to someone who has not been there. Except for one tiny sign (located at the far corner of the building) that anyone driving past can not see or read (or probably even notice), there is nothing that a passerby can see that lets them know there is a museum there. It just looks like storefronts. Even though I had been there before, I did not recall exactly where it was, and was walking down the sidewalk from where I parked, looking for a sign. The ONLY sign was the large and clear one for the restaurant, and since it was called by the name of the museum and the building did not look like a restaurant, that looked like it might be where it was. But no, the museum is at the other end of the block, and its only real sign is painted on the glass of the front window, and can barely be seen until a person is directly in front of it (and practically invisible from the street), with dark paint and lots of glare on the glass. It can EASILY be missed. That is why I bothered to clarify this in my video.
A map printed on paper? Whow. Haven't seen this for a long time.
Arno Schmidt, they are still widely sold, I see them all over the place, anywhere that sells travel stuff, such as truck stops, gas stations along the interstates, travel bureaus, bookstores (those that still exist). Amazon sells a lot of them. A good road atlas still provides a ton of information that no smart phone or GPS can, and it is far easier to plan a route, or scope out the 'lay of the land', or get a perspective on 'what is where' and in which relation to each other. I don't travel without one, whether by car or train (not too useful on airplanes, but even then, such a map can make it easier to keep track of where the plane is by comparing the view out the window to the map (and smart phones don't help when in 'airplane mode').
The paper map still works when your cellphone battery dies.
5 minutes I'm finally a bicycle
NICE
Bike heaven
I wish my bike had a car stick shifter...
What does it mean by "Safety"?.
Dan Mathers, a "safety bicycle", or just "safety" in this context, is what most modern bicycles are.....relatively low to the ground such that the rider's feet may reach the ground when seated, not prone to tipping over frontwards or backwards (as the older highwheel/penny-farthing/ "ordinary" bikes were). Manufacturers came up with the name "safety bicycle" to distinguish this (then new) type from the older, and presumably less safe, highwheel bicycles...primarily a marketing term to get people to buy the new kind of bike.
Seems like sport killed design. There was a golden period, fin de ciecle, as this museum so poignantly shows, during which ideas were wrought in steel and wood with a freedom that's still being rediscovered - mostly thanks to Internet people's search for novelty, innovation, and solutions. The mid-C20th's a bit of a hole, tweaking the previous year's models, and with an even lower point in the '50s when they copied automotive design, until mountain bikes came along and then new materials re-ignited a dormant seam of creativity, seeping into mausoleums of velo-orthodoxy.
Those high-wheelers were just plain stupidly designed.... let's design a bike that is so high no average person can safely mount it let alone drive it, so badly proportioned that it should have been called a suicide-wheeler, no balance whatsoever.... I see they had more sensible designs earlier in the century, why did they go that ridiculous and dangerous route?
Wanda James, it is an unfortunate aspect of humanity that when many (usually less thoughtful) people see something that they don't understand, their first impulse is to ridicule it. More thoughtful, intelligent people are able to say, "hmmm, I wonder what it was about that thing that made people like it, and how did it come to be?" and they look it up and inform themselves. And as with most things in history, and in the world, the more one knows about something, the less outlandish and 'stupid' it seems.
The highwheel bike, every aspect of it, makes perfect sense to people who understand the reasons and history. If you had bothered to even look at the Wikipedia page instead of writing you ignorant and very incorrect comment, there would have been no reason for you to write it in the first place.