Peter Brinson wrote:Peter
> > p.s. Schwinn definitely influenced modern bicycling, but I'd guess GM > and Ford probably influenced it just as much. > Dear Peter Brinson, Again you don't seem to get the drift of what I have said. This time it was applause and that "bicycling" has a "debt of gratitude" to the Schwinn name and the Chicago Schwinn family for providing a bicycle--the balloon tire bicycle--which was popular with consumers and was in every household with children. I made no conclusions about the affects of our current race for equipment or the marginalizing of bikes for children into worthless toys. I leave that for sociologists. So, tell me what GM and Ford had to do with bicycling in the 1940s and 1950s? Eric _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
