Oldest Pic I Have of Me Riding a “Bike”

January 4, 2007 at 2:05 pm (Mysteries of the Bicycle Explained, Pics, blogging)

Here’s a picture of me riding a tricycle in April, 1966.

April 1966 tricycle

That’s my old backyard (Fairfax, Virginia). I’m not quite 2 1/2 years old. Dig those overalls! This is the oldest picture I know of me riding a “bike”, if that’s allowed to loosely mean anything in the larger bicycle-inspired HPV (human-powered vehicle) family.

That trike is pretty cool, isn’t it? It has a cargo bed, which I’m wisely using to carry my toy car around. Seeing this pic made me think of MOBE #1.

The uncropped figure shows me following my brother around. He’s riding his bike with training wheels.

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