Bicycle Museum of AmericaJul 28, 2009
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never know what you'll find on the roadside!
Lock One North built to look like original
oldest oxbow bridge in Ohio next to Lock
After leaving Dolores and Allan in Geneva at Limberlost, I looked for a place to explore instead of going back to camp and decided to go into Ohio to see the bicycle museum. It was about an hour away, but the ride was worth it. See the Quilt Rock I found near the border of Indiana and Ohio! I also saw a reconstructed lock from the Miami & Erie Canal system that linked Cincinnati with Toledo in the mid 1800s. Germans came and built it for very little money and a shot of whiskey a week!
Most of the bikes in the museum were Schwinn's, but there are other interesting vehicles having from one wheel to 5 wheels! Bicycles were not only built for two, but for as many as 8 people - used for racing. There were exercise bikes, motorized bikes, recumbent bikes, kid's bikes and trikes, and bikes powered with the body instead of pedals. I watched a video where riders displayed how those big-wheeled bicycles were ridden and how to dismount them. Guys do wheelies with the bikes that had big back wheels and little front wheels - had to in order to get on and off them! Bikes were built for women in the late 1800s, finally, and Susan B. Anthony applauded that, saying it was the greatest liberator to date. very nice museum.
