The wayback machine

RocBike.com’s man at Seabreeze, Gary Young, sent a couple cool links this week. One is to a book called Rochester Ways by Charles Mulford Robinson, published in 1900. Here’s Gary’s note about the book:

By scanning whole libraries of books into its databases, Google has uncovered some wonderful old cycling books. While searching for stuff on cycling in Rochester, I came upon “Rochester Ways,” by
Charles Mulford Robinson, which portrays Rochester in 1900 as a veritable paradise for cyclists:

[Insert text from p. 65, beginning with, "What a swarm these bicyclists are! It has been said that has more of them than any other city in the country...."]

Of course, the entire book is a rather one-note exercise in civic uplift, so it’s difficult to say how much truth there is to this idyll. Still, it does make one hope for better days.

You can read the book at Google Books. You’ll notice a search box on the right side. Just type in “bicycle” and it will list the relevant pages.

Gary also sent a link to this video of clowns liberating bike lanes.

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