A Walk Through the Bicycle Museum of America 

Thank you for venturing into Ohio for this interesting tour. 🎟

The Sparta museum is rather tiny compared to this one. And the astronaut you are thinking of was Deke Slayton, who hailed from Sparta or that neighborhood.

wilig, there are bikes of that kind in the museum and in my video.

jonathan1985 howell, apparently Bicycle Heaven has a lot more bikes than BMOA, but from what I have heard from folks who have visited both places, Bicycle Heaven has a lot more of fewer types and styles, but BMOA has a much wider range of different types. Bicycle Heaven is/was the collection of one man who reportedly collected types he was interested in, while BMOA is basically the former Schwinn Bicycle Museum of Chicago, purchased and relocated to Ohio. Next time I get to the Pittsburgh area, I hope to look in on Bicycle Heaven.

Claude, the Strano looks like it would suffer from a tendency to tip over backwards pretty easily, much like the Highwheel Safeties of the late 1800s, such as the Star and the Eagle. Probably have to make sure that care is taken when climbing hills, or accelerating quickly.

mikeleiby6737, it is amazing that you can make some of these criticisms. I showed every bike that was on display when I was there, I did not 'miss' any. As for personal comments, this is a personal video so I certainly feel free to put my thoughts into it.....I did not tailor it for YOU! And why you think I was fixated on the address issue is a mystery; I made a point of it because it might be confusing to other prospective visitors....but you make it sound like I was going on about it all through the video.

Arno Schmidt, they are still widely sold, I see them all over the place, anywhere that sells travel stuff, such as truck stops, gas stations along the interstates, travel bureaus, bookstores (those that still exist). Amazon sells a lot of them. A good road atlas still provides a ton of information that no smart phone or GPS can, and it is far easier to plan a route, or scope out the 'lay of the land', or get a perspective on 'what is where' and in which relation to each other. I don't travel without one, whether by car or train (not too useful on airplanes, but even then, such a map can make it easier to keep track of where the plane is by comparing the view out the window to the map (and smart phones don't help when in 'airplane mode').

The paper map still works when your cellphone battery dies.

John P, No. Not interested, and out of time anyway.

Dan Mathers, a "safety bicycle", or just "safety" in this context, is what most modern bicycles are.....relatively low to the ground such that the rider's feet may reach the ground when seated, not prone to tipping over frontwards or backwards (as the older highwheel/penny-farthing/ "ordinary" bikes were). Manufacturers came up with the name "safety bicycle" to distinguish this (then new) type from the older, and presumably less safe, highwheel bicycles...primarily a marketing term to get people to buy the new kind of bike.

Well, it is not as silly as it may sound to someone who has not been there. Except for one tiny sign (located at the far corner of the building) that anyone driving past can not see or read (or probably even notice), there is nothing that a passerby can see that lets them know there is a museum there. It just looks like storefronts. Even though I had been there before, I did not recall exactly where it was, and was walking down the sidewalk from where I parked, looking for a sign. The ONLY sign was the large and clear one for the restaurant, and since it was called by the name of the museum and the building did not look like a restaurant, that looked like it might be where it was. But no, the museum is at the other end of the block, and its only real sign is painted on the glass of the front window, and can barely be seen until a person is directly in front of it (and practically invisible from the street), with dark paint and lots of glare on the glass. It can EASILY be missed. That is why I bothered to clarify this in my video.

Wanda James, it is an unfortunate aspect of humanity that when many (usually less thoughtful) people see something that they don't understand, their first impulse is to ridicule it. More thoughtful, intelligent people are able to say, "hmmm, I wonder what it was about that thing that made people like it, and how did it come to be?" and they look it up and inform themselves. And as with most things in history, and in the world, the more one knows about something, the less outlandish and 'stupid' it seems. The highwheel bike, every aspect of it, makes perfect sense to people who understand the reasons and history. If you had bothered to even look at the Wikipedia page instead of writing you ignorant and very incorrect comment, there would have been no reason for you to write it in the first place.