"Traces of Bicycle History on the Land"

[572cv]

I just came across an announcement for this by an historian local to me, Bob McCullough.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/old-wheelways?mc_cid=37094348a0&mc_eid=cc37fd209d

Looks like good winter reading for somebody! I'll probably check it out.

[cachagua]

I'll bet that's fascinating. I had read that early bicyclists got roadbuilding started in this country, before automobiles, but presumably this has a lot more detail.

There is supposed to have been a guy who crossed the continent on a penny-farthing before there were roads all the way through, going across a lot of open country, crossing canyons on railroad bridges... does the term "epic" come to mind? And he wrote an account of his experiences.

Do I remember the title? The guy's name? Faugh!