years ago I laid out hundreds of A4 pages in preparation for a print version of this timeline. Wiser heads prevailed which is a God Thing because a website has flexibility. Take 1901. I’d assembled about 3,000 words and a good selection of pictures covering the year and moved on. And then I was pointed at that wonderful website archive.org; specifically a number of volumes of The Bicycling World and Motocycle Review. From it extracted stories and pictures which have doubled the size of the 1901 entry, not least a description of Hedstrom’s first public ride on his new bike—before it was christened Indian. I fear the ongoing expansion of the 1921 entry will be in abeyance while I trawl through further volumes of Bicycling World; watch this space for news of more finds.
Motorcycle Timeline 