Go Back  Bike Forums > Bike Forums > Fifty Plus (50+)
Reload this Page >

Your Parents and Grandparents

Notices
Fifty Plus (50+) Share the victories, challenges, successes and special concerns of bicyclists 50 and older. Especially useful for those entering or reentering bicycling.

Your Parents and Grandparents

Old 05-10-05, 06:30 PM
  #1  
www.getafolder.com
Thread Starter
 
wpflem's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Santa Fe & Gallup, New Mexico
Posts: 400

Bikes: Brompton T6, Trek 3700 Moutain Bike, Dahon Boardwalk 6

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Your Parents and Grandparents

In this forum I thought it might be of interest to share memories of our parents and grandparents or even great grandparents as they relate to bicycling.

I sure wish I had made inquires when I had the chance, but I just didn't have any sense of historical heritage a few yrs ago.

Let me start:

My mother and grandmothers: I have no knowledge of their ever riding bikes

My Grandfather: faithfully commuted on his bicycle to the hospital where he worked as a Janitor.

My Dad: now in his mid 70's loves bikes and still rides. During WWII he road his bicycle and delivered, sadly enough, death telegrams for Western Union.
__________________
Celebrating Bicycling
The Past, Present, and Future

https://www.sfbikes.com or https://www.getafolder.com/
wpflem is offline  
Old 05-11-05, 07:25 PM
  #2  
Senior Member
 
Red Baron's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: On a Road in Central Bluegrass KY
Posts: 1,252

Bikes: Not enough

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Liked 1 Time in 1 Post
Sadly, if my G'xxxxx's & parents ever thought I'd be riding a bike for exercise, they would have been very dissappointed in me. If one was not working (and they all worked HARD), one was lazy.

Sadly once they retired, death soon followed.
Red Baron is offline  
Old 05-13-05, 07:46 PM
  #3  
Junior Member
 
igor441's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 16
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time in 1 Post
I can remember only one anecdote regarding my father and his bicycle. When my father was a kid, he and his buddies would go to the local Sears Roebuck store when someone had accumulated enough money to buy a new bike. This was in the east Bronx, New York in the 1920s. The gang would ride their bikes over to Sears, get the new bike, and assemble it on the sidewalk outside of the Sears store. This was so that they could all ride home together.

My father bought me my first bike at another Sears store in the west Bronx in 1946 (yeah, I am *that* old). At the time, Sears bikes were made by Columbia. We didn't assemble it in the street though, we loaded it into the rumble seat of my father's model A Ford. He would not buy me the bike until I had learned to ride one, but we didn't have a bike for me to learn on. So I taught myself to ride by renting a bike (big business in New York in the 1940s). I can remember my first ride on that new bike like it was yesterday.

I guess things are done a bit differently today, huh?

Igor
.
igor441 is offline  

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


Thread Tools
Search this Thread

Contact Us - Archive - Advertising - Cookie Policy - Privacy Statement - Terms of Service -

Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.