Antique Bicycles

The grandkids discovered a second floor museum of sorts in Oatman, Arizona.









Mike on "American Pickers" would like this place!  It is seriously antique bicycles!

This baby is apparently an 1820 Draisene replica.  It's also called a Laufmaschine ("running machine").  It was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais in Mannheim, Germany in 1817. Being the first means of transport to make use of the two-wheeler principle, the Laufmaschine is regarded as the archetype of the bicycle.


Since this guy just learned how to ride a bicycle, he was probably the most impressed with all of these things!

This is an 1839 Macmillan Replica from Scotland.  Kirkpatric Macmillan, a blacksmith, built this baby with a wood frame and iron rimmed wooden wheels.  Overall it weighed about 60 pounds



Now he's gettin' into Daddy's kinda wheels.

Not as impressed with these.  But wait a few years, and he might be back to admire them!