Wreckless Girls & Outcast Women

[bvar22]

Ahhhh, so NOW I understand why I've always been attracted to "Reckless Girls". :)

Found in an exhibit at the Minnesota History Center in St Paul.

[Kolesar]

1. We're number one! We're number one! We're number one!

And you snuck a camera in there to document it.
That's great. Thanks for putting it up.

[Gregorian]

2. Hahaha!

Oh my god, just look at the headtube on that one! :)

[happyslug]

3. Quote from the "Women's Rescue League"

An history teacher background papers for his students on the issue of Women around 1900 (Mention Bicycle and the debate on whether women should be permitted to ride them):

https://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/sport/bicycle.html

About the problem of "Bike Bacillus" and the Women's Rescue League.
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/socialcommentary/branntheiconoclastvol-1/chap42.html

Can't find more about this quote, to old and rare to be on most search engines.

Poem from the time period:

Where once I heard her voice in song I hear it now insist,
That "Holding tight to handlebars will strain the stoutest wrist."

Where once she played a light guitar she now proclaims in ire
That only "Dingbat tires are good" and sneers at single tires.

Where once she spoke in charming ways of her way to build a cake
She orates on the graceful ease she coasts without a brake.

Of spokes and bloomers, sprockets, chains, of pedals and the like
My better half will talk for hours since she has bought a bike.