Summertime is great for riding bicycles. In 1935 bicycles were making the news. The bicycle had been reinvented again with actual brakes and even rubber tires. Although the inventions of automobiles, trains, and planes were used for long distance travel the bicycle was still a primary mode of transportation.

Today we can find a website called The League of American Bicyclists. This is the modern version of the original American Wheelmen club.

With the renewed interest in bicycles many young boys were elevated to entrepreneurs as they thought of ways to use their bicycles for monetary gain.

                                                                        Bicycle Basketball

The new bicycles even inspired exciting sports!

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Popular Mechanics
January 1935
Vol.63 No.1
pg. 62