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Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Riding the invisible rails

Seen in the morning papers...


This is pretty nifty, but it's interesting to consider that the Underground Railroad and Emancipation all happened twenty years before the first safety bikes were built. Surely the bicycle would have made it easier for the courageous runaway slaves to get to Canada, and it's no accident that one of the nation's first cycling heroes was Major Taylor.

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