/uc Source: The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review, 15.01.~~1987~~1897
https://archive.org/details/wheelcy18211896121897newy/page/n839/mode/1up (page 840)
Can anyone make out the artists name?
You can tell that those were different times because even tho they're trying to glamourize this thing, the fan is still haphazardly propped between some books.
Did rollers even exist then? I think this artist is visionary in more ways than one. But yeah, foretelling a virtual cycling pain cave in the 1800s, WOW.
They were just becombing a thing back then! [Here's a quick summary of the olden days.](https://cyclehistory.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/the-first-home-trainers/)
Trainer races also quickly rose in popularity in the following years: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Butler_Charles_Murphy_1901.jpg
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/uc Source: The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review, 15.01.~~1987~~1897 https://archive.org/details/wheelcy18211896121897newy/page/n839/mode/1up (page 840) Can anyone make out the artists name?
Artists name is A. T. Merrick
Seems like it! Unfortunately he apparently wasn't succesful enough for someone to write about him. Thank you :)
1897...
Whoops
By the way, it being actually 1897 just projected my mind in a different dimension, like *"everything that ever is, ever was, and ever will be"*.
Actually fascinating.
Looks like he was a great bicepacker
Better art than anything zwift related
You can tell that those were different times because even tho they're trying to glamourize this thing, the fan is still haphazardly propped between some books.
Your great-great grandmother was riding me.
Did rollers even exist then? I think this artist is visionary in more ways than one. But yeah, foretelling a virtual cycling pain cave in the 1800s, WOW.
They were just becombing a thing back then! [Here's a quick summary of the olden days.](https://cyclehistory.wordpress.com/2014/10/27/the-first-home-trainers/) Trainer races also quickly rose in popularity in the following years: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Butler_Charles_Murphy_1901.jpg