Touring - Gentlemen, permit me to introduce you to Miss Annie Londonderry

annie londonderry (www.annielondonderry.com)


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cf/Annielondonderry.jpg/180px-Annielondonderry.jpg

Chasing Annie Londonderry (http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0828/p20s01-algn.html)

On an early summer day in June 1894, a young woman carrying only a change of clothes and a pearl-handled revolver climbed onto a Columbia bicycle before a crowd of 500 people on the steps of the Massachusetts State House in Boston. Then, declaring she would circle the world, Annie Londonderry, according to one newspaper, "sailed away like a kite down Beacon Street." It was, The New York World declared a year later, "the most extraordinary journey ever undertaken by a woman."

I tried to listen to a book about her, got bored by it and wasn't able to finish it. According to the part that I read, she was a self-promoter and may not have done many of the things she claimed to do.

YMMV

Ray

I tried to listen to a book about her, got bored by it and wasn't able to finish it. According to the part that I read, she was a self-promoter and may not have done many of the things she claimed to do.

YMMV

Ray


MMDV :)

I find it a facinating story, whether she did fudge or not.

Part of the video on Miss Annie Londonderry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC5ijmfc8Pk)

Annie Londonderry Kopchovsky


http://www.nextbook.org/images/features/feature_788_story.jpg

"I'll get you, my pretty."

Londonderry Lithia Springs Company (http://www.londonderrylithia.com/historypage.html)

(Information about the company that sponsored Annie)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Londonderry_Lithia_Water_Bottling_Plant_1892.jpg

Is that a Brooks saddle?

Is that a Brooks saddle?

Hi pubb,


I do not know, but the bicycle was a Columbia ladies bike she rode from Boston to Chicago before being presented the Sterling in this pic.

http://www.annielondonderry.com/gallery/images/bike.jpg

A great article from Biking Bis (http://www.bikingbis.com/blog/_archives/2008/2/15/3516139.html) on Annie Londonderry.

I tried to listen to a book about her, got bored by it and wasn't able to finish it. According to the part that I read, she was a self-promoter and may not have done many of the things she claimed to do.

YMMV

Ray
I read the entire book and I agree with all of your conclusions. Little is known about much of her foreign travels. Some of the USA parts were interesting. But by the time I finished the book, I was underwhelmed and concluded that the subject didn't merit an entire book.

and now for a different perspective (http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/08/10/chasing_the_tale_of_a_pioneering_cyclist/?page=1)...........

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2307/2082958159_7a79644095.jpg?v=0

Back in Bloomers (http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2829/)

Radio Interview (http://www.annielondonderry.com/images/pedal.mp3)

Annie Londonderry Kopchovsky


http://www.nextbook.org/images/features/feature_788_story.jpg

"I'll get you, my pretty."

Where can I get that seatpost!?

Where can I get that seatpost!?

It comes free with a 10,000 donation (tax exemption) to the Annie Londonderry Kopchovsky Appreciation Society.........

Please make your check out to "Airwick Londonderry" :)

(on another note, it appears the dvd was never completed on Londonderry?)