Cycling

CYCLING was introduced to BC when the first shipment of velocipedes, the earliest bicycles, arrived in VICTORIA from Paris in Feb 1869. Velocipedes were initially unpopular because they required more physical work to ride than did horses. In one year the price of a unit dropped from $150 to $10 and Victoria's British Colonist newspaper published an obituary for the new machine. By 1888 only two bicycles had arrived in VANCOUVER, one owned by Prince Edward Island champion cyclist Sam Mason, who...

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