Babes on Bikes

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Bicycling across America in 1944.

 

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Ann Miller

 

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Ruth Smith (North Lancs CC) passing a Lancia Lambda in the 1955 25-mile Womens' Championship in an era when women were still not allowed to enter men's events. She is riding fixed with one brake to the front wheel and the obligatory bell mounted on the stem.
(See note from Laurie Weeks about the Lancia at bottom of this page)

Events were also organised for tandems. Solo trikes would compete in normal time trials for solo machines. There may be a prize for trikes (or barrows as they were known) but barrow-boys tended to pit themselves against each other in a sort of limited fraternity. Tandem trikes would compete in tandem events of course. In 1960 the 'Uni' 30-mile tandem event attracted 65 entries, small fry though compared with the same event in 1936 which had 135 entries for an event limited to 100 riders.

 

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Jordan Carver & her race set bicycle.

 

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Colorized circa 1902 photo of Miss Arn ‘riding' a bike in Boonville, Missouri. Photo by Maximillian E. Schmidt. Restoration and colorization by LongView HD. Repository: The State Historical Society of Missouri Photograph Collection.

 

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Zooey Deschanel. One of my favorites -I heard her in concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.