Vintage Bicycles: Enjoy the Ride

Vintage bicycles are generally defined as bikes produced between the 1920s and the 1990s. Introduced at the beginning of the nineteenth century, bicycles enabled people to travel significantly further in a given time than they could on foot. As time passed, bikes became the most popular mode of transportation for kids. Today, they continue to provide children and adults with a back-to-basics sense of freedom and independence.

The Enjoy the Ride: Vintage Bicycles exhibit brings bike-riding memories rushing back. Before Giant, Specialized, and Trek, there were Schwinn, Huffy, Firestone, and Fuji. Even department stores like Montgomery-Ward and Sears became trusted sources for two-wheelers.

Our short-term pop-up exhibit takes visitors down memory lane with generational examples from fifty years of biking. From banana seats with sissy bars to ten-speeds with curly handlebars to stingrays and cruisers, come along for the ride.

The exhibit kicked off as part of our Sister Sojourn Mother’s Day weekend “Puzzles, Pedals & Pies” event, which raised funds for Metastatic Breast Cancer Research.