Antique bicycle lighting
Cyclists today are all soft. Why, in the old days we didn’t have any fancy L.E.D. lights. Nope. We couldn’t see where we were going, and that’s how we liked it. Seattle was all cobblestones, gravel roads and there were only seven street lights. We still rode our bikes in the dark. Got run over a lot. Ran into parked cars and a even a few parked horses. Made us tough…
We have a fun collection of old bike lights in the museum. Kerosene lamps, oil lamps, old generator systems. We have some big old D-cell battery systems that weighed a ton. The funny thing is, with almost all of the old lamps, you still couldn’t see where you were going.