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Cyclists’ Road Map of Portland District, 1896

The map is filled with fascinating features. “Information for wheelmen” explains that road quality is determined by riding speeds, with good road allowing travel at 10-12mph. Though “allowance will have to be made, of course, for mud and dust”.
One of the most eye catching elements of this bike map is the concentric mile wide rings showing distance. … [T]his was Washington & 3rd, the ticket office for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. Inside the neat line on the lower left side is an ad for the O.R & N, bearing that same address.

History of the Bike There! map

This first map also showed information to help cyclists combine a bike ride with transit. “Cycle to Oregon City, spend the night at the Oregon City Electric Hotel, and take the interurban railroad home the next day!”

Portland, Oregon. Cycling city since 1896

Cyclists’ Road Map of Portland District, 1896

The map is filled with fascinating features. “Information for wheelmen” explains that road quality is determined by riding speeds, with good road allowing travel at 10-12mph. Though “allowance will have to be made, of course, for mud and dust”.

One of the most eye catching elements of this bike map is the concentric mile wide rings showing distance. … [T]his was Washington & 3rd, the ticket office for the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. Inside the neat line on the lower left side is an ad for the O.R & N, bearing that same address.

History of the Bike There! map

This first map also showed information to help cyclists combine a bike ride with transit. “Cycle to Oregon City, spend the night at the Oregon City Electric Hotel, and take the interurban railroad home the next day!”

Portland, Oregon. Cycling city since 1896

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Source: buchino