I doubt we have very many pictures of bikes from the past in our family... have to look. Mom never learned how to ride a bike, Iowa farm girl. Dad started riding when he was young, something about his older brother put him on a bike and shoved him down a hill. He had a couple of unusual bikes growing up one being an Italian built Retro Direct apparently my grandfather brought it back from Italy when he was selling tractors over there in the 1920's. I do recall my dad having a black 3 speed when we lived in Marshall, Missouri, rode it to work and a few other colleges around the country. Probably where I got my love for them. At 80 he is no longer riding, I hope to beat that record.

I would have to guess that my dad's bike probably was very similar to this one.

Aaron