1879: The Ariel Bicycle Club

The Ariel Bicycle Club

The Ariel Bicycle Club, Organized in 1879, was extremely popular in the eighties. The high wheels, introduced in 1876, were in vogue until 1884 when ‘safeties’ came into use.

Courtesy of “Chicago and Its Makers” (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).

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