Trick cyclist from 1900

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Photos of the trick cyclist "Prof. Fourcher":

http://www.fourcher.com/fourcher.htm

http://www.archivesalberta.org/extreme/cityofedm.htm

http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010854.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:13864

http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010855.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:15445

http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010852.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:19395

http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010853.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:19396

http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010857.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:28520

http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010858.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:29400

http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010850.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:33773

Judging by the family site, "Fourcher" was probably his real name,
despite the fact that it means both "fork" (as in a bicycle fork) and
a form of legal "trickery" (as is trick cyclist).

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

 

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On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:55:54 -0600, [email protected] wrote:

>Photos of the trick cyclist "Prof. Fourcher":
>
>http://www.fourcher.com/fourcher.htm
>
>http://www.archivesalberta.org/extreme/cityofedm.htm
>
>http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010854.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:13864
>
>http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010855.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:15445
>
>http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010852.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:19395
>
>http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010853.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:19396
>
>http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010857.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:28520
>
>http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010858.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:29400
>
>http://museumofnyc.doetech.net/imag...001/Z00108/Z0010850.jpg&TableKey=OBJECT:33773
>
>Judging by the family site, "Fourcher" was probably his real name,
>despite the fact that it means both "fork" (as in a bicycle fork) and
>a form of legal "trickery" (as is trick cyclist).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Carl Fogel

Bah!

These two links work well:

http://www.fourcher.com/fourcher.htm

http://www.archivesalberta.org/extreme/cityofedm.htm

But several emails have complained that the museum site is either so
slow or so unreliable that the pictures of the 1900 trick cyclist are
unavailable.

The simplest solution is brazen piracy:

http://i13.tinypic.com/67sm97s.jpg

http://i19.tinypic.com/67yxobt.jpg

http://i12.tinypic.com/6cnoqcn.jpg

http://i12.tinypic.com/6gxjfi9.jpg

http://i10.tinypic.com/662rvaq.jpg

http://i17.tinypic.com/63rt8w8.jpg

http://i9.tinypic.com/4y961x1.jpg

And as long as I have my cutlass between my teeth . . .

This shows the set-up for riding in a wooden bowl, but not the bowl
that most people have seen:
http://i11.tinypic.com/66vfz1c.jpg

Here's the other bowl, the one that you may have seen:
http://i14.tinypic.com/53hsgmd.jpg

This looks like the picture that you may have seen, but isn't:
http://i13.tinypic.com/61lz401.jpg

The well-known picture:
http://i12.tinypic.com/6cx1xn6.jpg

Look, ma, no hands!
http://i7.tinypic.com/5xnygk5.jpg

Yarrr, me hearties!

Lancelot Blackburne

 

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Look, ma, no hands!
http://i7.tinypic.com/5xnygk5.jpg

Yarrr, me hearties!

Lancelot Blackburne

Didn't know W-Mart assembled and sold bicycles back then !