Friday Video: Cycle Skating—A Roaring Twenties Craze

Loretta reports:

Don’t know about you, but I’d never heard of cycle skating, until somebody somewhere posted this British Pathé video. As often happens, I put on my history sleuthing hat to find out more. To my further surprise, I learned that cycle skating wasn’t exactly new in 1923. When it was new, according to this Scientific American article from March 1870 , was half a century earlier.



Cycle-Skating - The New Sport of 1923 , British Pathé TV .
(You can watch the same video with music here .)

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