Girls on bouncing bicycles

Posted on July 27, 2011 by .
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I’m having fun watching the historical bicycle films collected at CriticalPast, an archival film distribution service.

I see that some of the goofier bicycle inspired exercise machines we see today are nothing new. Check out, for example, this “Rythm Bicycle” promotion from San Francisco in 1936. This “Rhythm Bicycle” uses a treadle mechanism to push the bike and make the saddle bounce up and down while you’re riding.

CriticalPast entitles this one “Several girls sitting on bouncing bicycles.”



See also:

  1. Velo Girls Named USA Cycling Club of the Year!
  2. Girls Mountain Bike Camp @ Sea Otter
  3. Girls – Biking makes you smart!
  4. Bike stuff for girls


  • http://twitter.com/gussynichols Luke N

    Hehe, nothing like old films to make you realise how much little has changed. I wonder what modern advertisers would call it?? The ab, leg, buttock, calf and core workout! 

  • http://twitter.com/Wuss912 Wuss912

    the boing boing bike… :P

  • http://www.commutebybike.com Ted Johnson

    Now that’s what I call a Q-factor.

  • http://www.cyclelicio.us/ Cyclelicious

    *giggle*