Ladies cycling, 1899
The long skirts (and the corsets) couldn’t have made it easy:
The sound was added later.
As one YouTube commenter said: “Sexy. I think I saw some ankle.”
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The long skirts (and the corsets) couldn’t have made it easy:
The sound was added later.
As one YouTube commenter said: “Sexy. I think I saw some ankle.”
It looks like the bikes have fixed gears and don’t freewheel from the way they are all continuously pedaling in sync and never take a break. They must have had strong legs.
Well you better get used to it, as global warmin will force women into bicycles…
But i am not worried!!!!!!! why?
because men and women are equal, but men are really crypto super beings (in which reality itself bows to us and our lives are always easier) where women are crypto super losers in which everything always affects them more and worse…
maybe global warming will be worse for them cause of return to bicycles?
if ya think that’s dumb, remember a majority of them have either accepted it, joined it, or go along with it to keep from being a target…
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What’s less understood is the extent to which climate change overall will have a disproportionate impact on women.
As scientists put it, climate change and gender are inextricably linked. In less-developed regions, it falls to women to gather food and water for their families. If crops can’t grow, those women will lose both their livelihoods and their food source. At the same time, as extreme weather events become more frequent, huge populations of women and families are forced to leave their homes. Women will bear the brunt of the crisis. “If we don’t consider gender roles in our understanding of climate change and its solutions, we might end up exacerbating gendered inequalities,” says Miriam Gay-Antaki, Ph.D., a university teacher in human geography at the University of Edinburgh, who studies the intersection of gender and climate change.
and in case you disagree, then here is a phd to set you straight (am i allowed to say that?)
“It’s absolutely vital that climate scientists and researchers mirror the populations that are impacted by climate change,” says Victoria Herrmann, Ph.D., president and managing director of the Arctic Institute, a think tank focusing on Arctic security issues. “There’s a pretty good research base now to know that personal histories and experiences influence your own research methodology, your research bias, and your research results. No individual comes to research with complete objectivity.”
Why Women And Cycling Are Solutions To Climate Change
[it was more fun when they made you wear underwear outside your clothing]
http://citygirlrides.com/why-women-and-cycling-are-solutions-to-climate-change/
Ever heard of “coded patriarchy”? According to Danielle Kayembe, it “is the assumption of male as default and exclusion of female perspectives in nearly every domain. Put very simply, most structures, design, media, technology and products we interact with are designed with male as the default.” So much of the world around us is designed for men, it determines the size of our roads, gender roles, size of our smartphones, airbags, the plans of our cities, and the paths we walk on our way home. This trend has devastating consequences for public transit use and secure cycling infrastructure which effects climate change. Gender is an important factor that influences our day to day experiences within the world, as well as our vulnerability to, and ability to mitigate, climate impacts.
Why Empowering Women Is the Best Way to Solve Climate Change
[solve? why solve a cash cow that has no basis?]
https://singularityhub.com/2017/08/23/why-empowering-women-is-the-best-way-to-solve-climate-change/
To fight climate change, we need to get more women on bikes
https://www.thenewneo.com/2019/04/22/ladies-cycling-1899/#comment-2431668
Syria’s Women and Girls Bike to Beat Climate Change
https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2019/03/syrian-women-and-girls-climate-change/
How to get more women cycling in cities
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2019/mar/08/how-to-get-more-women-cycling-in-cities
To cut greenhouse gas emissions we need to increase cyclist numbers and that means getting more women on their bikes
Defying war and catcalls, Syria’s women hop on climate-friendly bikes
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get ready ladies, cause the feminist movement openly admits its leftist, so your going to eventually get a totalitarian kind of thing, and so, you gonna have to learn to rid a bike… or…
From an 1898 article in the Atlantic:
“A typical American device is the bicycle. Invented in France, it long remained a toy or a vain luxury. Redevised in this country, it inspired inventors and captivated manufacturers, and native genius made it a practical machine for the multitude…Typical, too, is the bicycle in its effect on national character. It first aroused invention, next stimulated commerce, and then developed individuality, judgment, and prompt decision on the part of its users more rapidly and completely than any other device; for although association with machines of any kind (absolutely straightforward and honest as they are all) develops character, the bicycle is the easy leader of other machines in shaping the mind of its rider, and transforming itself and its rider into a single thing. Better than other results is this: that the bicycle has broken the barrier of pernicious differential between the sexes and rent the bonds of fashion, and is daily impressing Spartan strength and grace, and more than Spartan intelligence, on the mothers of coming generations.”
How did they keep their clothing from becoming entangled in the chain?
Very cool to see.
Chain guards, most like.
I couldn’t find when freewheels came into being. The derailleur was invented between 1900 and 1910.
The bicycles in the film were at the tail end of a period when they were pushing the notion and name of the “safety bicycle.” These had chain guards and spoke guards (over the rear wheel), and shallower head tube angles with lots of caster on the steered front wheel. Large caster would have facilitated the men in the Paris film who were riding hands free.
Remember the Wright brothers had a bicycle shop first,
This is like watching a Fallout clip.
David Foster: I’ll bet it stimulated more than Commerce in those ladies.
How people managed to cycle back then without lycra, carbon fibre, and clipless (sic) pedals, I’ll never know.
“If we don’t consider gender roles in our understanding of climate change and its solutions, we might end up exacerbating gendered inequalities,” says Miriam Gay-Antaki, Ph.D
The female sex will survive, but the feminine gender will be degraded as women assume masculine attributes (e.g. roles) to survive. Babies… fetuses hardest hit by social progress.
TommyJay: As you certainly realise, but others reading may not, Freewheel must have preceded the Derailleur (which won’t work without ability to freewheel).
There’s a very good book on the history of the derailleur called The Dancing Chain.
Early history of derailleurs was pretty much all French, as the English were wedded to the notion of hub gears and regarded derailleurs as being Foreign and rather Heath Robinsonish.
Googling Edward Elgar’s Bicycle also brings up some interesting stuff. He got about on a very genteel machine indeed.
My family have been members of https://www.thewheelmen.org/ since the 70’s. I have several antique bicycles. I can tell you that those are some of the nicer bikes too ride from the time. They are balloon tire “safety’s” . Which are much like modern bikes minus the freewheeling. Compared to the alternatives just a few years before they were relatively safe. The “high wheel” or Penny farthing are far tougher to ride. First off they had no gearing. It is similar to riding a giant tricycle. The main disadvantage being that while the seat was over 5 feet in the air. Stopping for any reason unexpectedly was a disaster. The handle bars trapped your legs from being able to arrest your fall forward. Broken arms and head injuries were very common. As you primarily stopped your fall forward in the worst way possible. It was known as “taking a header”.
My grandmother was an avid rider. She rode her 1900 Columbia safety from Detroit to Philadelphia in 1976 for the bicentennial. Even experienced as she was she would often catch her skirt in the gears. As the chain is nearly square and the tolerances are very loose. She did not have much trouble getting the skirt out of the gears. Its hard to see in the video but there is a wood and string chain guard on most of the bikes that helped the issue somewhat.
I was immediately interested in the coaster brake issue too, when seeing that none of the riders ever coasted.
The freewheel was invented in 1869, in the USA, but was not popular – most bicyclists wanted the most simple bicycle. The coaster brake was invented in 1898, and by the early 1900s, most bikes had both rear freewheels and coaster brakes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle (and links).
Over 500 million Chinese “Flying Pigeon” bikes were made, most popular vehicle ever. Looks a lot like my old Jr. High one-speed. I recall riding home with multiple bags of groceries in the front basket, including carrying two so that I was riding with no hands. Less than a mile, but starting and stopping was quite challenging.
Can you imagine the excitement of women to the introduction of a machine that would allow them to travel without a chaperone? One that would make attendance at school more possible; could allow a woman to run errands or visit friends without having to depend on a man to take care of travel?
That bike was FREEDOM to women at the turn of the century!
I had long wondered why the female bike didn’t have the stabilizing cross-bar – this video makes it obvious – women couldn’t wear a long skirt and ride a man’s bike.
By WWII, bikes were commonly ridden by women of all ages (of course, war restrictions on gas helped). When I was young (baby boomer), just about every girl (and, of course, boys) had bikes.
That black bike with the white tipped rear fender reminds me of a Dunelt 3 speed I was given; which, though it looked pristine, had been subjected to some careless use, when my unappreciative country cousins had it briefly and ran it on potholed dirt roads. I tinkered with it, but beautiful as it remained, it was never quite right. And at 11, what did I know about bicycle mechanics?
However, it looks as though like-new bikes from that 60’s and 70’s era may be moderately, valuable. I see someone auctioned a “1965 AMF Jet Pilot” which looked exactly like my first full sized bike; with the same extra mounted chrome headlights and all. Money? They are worth decent change (maybe a grand or two?) if we saved them?
As it was too big for me, I had to park it next to the (ranch style house) porch and climb onto it from there: even with the seat lowered. But by the end of the summer I had grown enough to mount unaided and reach the pedals consistently.
I’m sure many others here did and went through much the same thing.
How did they keep their clothing from becoming entangled in the chain?
Very cool to see.
the earliest ones did not have chains..
they were more like hobby horses.
you can see a version in the costume drama the three musketeers
the other early version was really hard to ride with a 6′ wheel in front
and again.. no chain..
When were bicycle gears invented? The history of the bicycle drivetrain is complex, but its modern form goes back to the first “safety bicycle” known as the “Rover,” which was developed in 1885 by John Kemp Starley
Linda Fox on April 23, 2019 at 10:11 am at 10:11 am said:
Can you imagine the excitement of women to the introduction of a machine that would allow them to travel without a chaperone?
what country are you referring to?
this was never Islam, and a chaperone was never required other than custom
sorry… but a lot of what the feminists “teach” is bs and been disproved
kind of like a lot of what their heroes did…
oh, and unlike Islam, the Chapperone could be another woman..
it was not for her “protection” from men
it was to keep her from voluntarily straying, picking up a moron, and having children with a fun idiot that would be a bad addition to the family!!!
you know… so you wouldnt have the social mess you have today with all the desease, beatings, murders and so on… all cause you is on your own!!!
in spain you had the duena, but they were taken over by islam at one point
and have a machismo culture…
and funny funny..
men had chapperones too
if you go to italy, you may see homes with blank walls and one tiny window
that was how you dated… 🙂
One more.
How a bicycle is made. British Council. Downloadable.
https://vimeo.com/39401575
This will be of interest to anyone with experience in manufacturing.
Roll formers, tube benders, forging the crank, gang drilling/boring operation on the crank arm, case hardening parts, hardness testing (looks like a Rockwell type) … all very cool
by the way, bet the feminists didnt teach you about Cicisbeo
or the cortejo, or estrecho….
For people who claim oppression and no power…
[they certainly hid the history from the fools they use!!!!]
the above doesnt sound very oppressive… does it?
and somewhere gay men have the idea that they too were hated to the point of what? replacing a husband?
oh, and in the case of ending the relationship, of course he gets everything and she is destitute:
I still have my very heavy japanese racing bike: Citoh
theyh may have stole the mechanism last repair
(family took it, i said no, it was no favor that way)
I have a photo that my grandmother took of her friend on a bicycle in the 1912 -1914 time period. The dress is very similar to the ones in the film. It’s almost as though these dresses were something of a standard cycling uniform.
Instead of the more formal hats in the film, she is wearing a very big brimmed straw sun hat, with the brim pinned back so it won’t flop down over her eyes. The bike looks similar too except it is a bit more modern as it doesn’t have the odd linkage rods in front of the head tube.
On the sound added later, couldn’t avoid thinking a bit about HAL singing “Daisy” in 2001 (made in 1968 – great and sad predictions about the future.)
Also thought about the early bicycles built for two. Tandem bikes started in the 1890s, the 1892 song “Daisy Bell” (not really just “Daisy” as above) was inspired by Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, one of the many mistresses of King Edward VII.
It was also the first song sung by a computer, in 1961, by an IBM 7094.
Off topic, save regarding ladies in dresses: Hyperinflation, a beautiful dress made of Venezuelan Bolivars worth less than the price of a cup of coffee (photo of same).
https://mobile.twitter.com/CJBSsocinnov/status/1121046090344816640
Shoulda called it: “Ladies Recycling”.