When I first spotted this early 1890s bicycle shop advertisement from the archives of the Cambridge Daily News, I was a little surprised that such a thing existed as a riding school for cyclists. But it makes sense that shop owners might want to make the most of the cycle craze that struck Britain and the USA in the late 1880s and 1890s. In the Cambridg…
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