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Title
Bicycles In Pre War Australia
Artist
Miroslava Jurcik
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Like the tram and the train, the bicycle was invented in mid 19th century, but by 1890s all the features we know today -safety, brakes, pneumatic tyres, derailleurs and well made chains had appeared.
Women finely had the freedom to travel and workers took to the cheap, easy to maintain bicycles in their millions !
Australian shearer's bicycles which came into use in the late 1890's were more than a form of efficient transportation. When it caned hard with rain and the sheep were too wet to shear, work-horse bicycles became racing bikes, on other days races for shearers were organised events at local race tracks.
By 1902 the transition from horse to bike was complete at one shed on the Balonne River, Boombah station. The St George Standard reported that "It is very noticeable this year that the shearer's steed is the bicycle." 2 The same year galloping shearer squadrons disappeared from view replaced by legions of devoted shearer bicyclists.
As a means of locomotion for shearers traveling from one shed to another, the bicycle has almost entirely displaced the horse. The old-fashioned sight of a squadron of shearers galloping with all their trappings, pack-horses, etc into country villages is rarely met with now, but a shearers cycle detachment is no uncommon sight. It is safe to say that fully three fourths of the shearers have adopted the bicycle and discarded the horse.
This picture of bicycle from the 1900s was on display at Spirit of Anzac exhibition behind glass case !
more interesting info about sheers bicycles : http://www.veloaficionado.com/blog/australias-bicycle-riding-shearers-of-the-early-twentieth-century
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Mequon, WI - United States
I love the lone bag hanging from the bike... wonderful use of black and white to emphasize the bag.
Mequon, WI - United States
I ike the contrast of the different lines in this... the spokes of the wheel and the rails of the fence. Nice work! LF
Scarborough, Qu - Australia
A superb black and white image of a relic of the past. It still looks in good condition. L/F
Sun City Center, FL - United States
Outstanding vintage bicycle Miroslava, I would love to own this one!...F/L
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