Riding in the Pines

[dogg57]

Maybe this would work?

 

[this_is_nascar]

Now that's prety damn cool.

 

[stizkidz]

If I recall, there was a chapter in one of Beck's books with a similar concept in Smithville, right?

 

[Boyd]

I believe that was a special elevated wooden track, wasn't it?

 

[Teegate]

That is sweet!

 

[imkms]

I believe that was a special elevated wooden track, wasn't it?

From: Herlihy, "The Bicycle Story," Inventions& Technology, Spring 1992

At the start of the bicycle era the absence of good roads suggested the use of a railway for bikes. The picture shows an 1892 monorail for the Mount Holly and Smithville, New Jersey, bicycle railroad. The railroad linked the Mount Holly community to the H. B. Smith manufacturing company in Smithville, a distance of about 1.8 miles. Only one track was built for most of the route and lifting the "bike" off the rail was necessary when meeting another rider.

 

[Boyd]

That's very cool. I wonder if there were any "bike rage" incidents when somebody got stuck behind a slow pedaler?

 

[imkms]

That's very cool. I wonder if there were any "bike rage" incidents when somebody got stuck behind a slow pedaler?

Story of a murder incorrectly linked to the bicycle railroad.

http://www.smithvilleconservancy.com/Herald_Peak_BikeRR.php