Early Bikes and the Ladies who Rode Them.
Contributed by Emma Pickles, with some photos from the Bob T. Collection.
Few people would deny that biking has an inherently masculine image. Although many women are bikers, if you say the word “biker” to almost any American, the picture which pops into their head will be that of a bearded and tattooed man in dusty leathers and ragged denim, leaning against a chrome-gleaming status symbol of a bike. So ingrained is this image that it is hard to picture it any other way. But it was not always so…..
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