I know this is not in Boston, but it looked interesting, especially for you history buffs.

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Everything had to be invented — and the bicycle is an extremely transparent invention. Learn how it started out in the 1860’s — see a 50-pound “boneshaker” hand-forged of iron and wood, lacking suspension, tires — and brakes.

Discover what innovations led to the creation of the “safety” bicycle that revolutionized women’s lives in the “Gay (18)90’s.” And find out why the bicycle will be so important in the future. Speaker and Bicycle Historian Vicki Elson was raised in a house full of strange and wonderful bicycles.

Her father, Paul Niquette, is a futurist who works on sustainable transportation — and collects bicycles, including the biggest antique high-wheeler in the world, an 1886 Columbia Expert Ordinary with a 64″ front wheel. Now a great-grandfather, Paul still rides the Big Bike, with his head nine feet off the ground. And Vicki has taken up the family mission of celebrating the world’s most efficient form of transportation.

Wednesday 6PM in Holyoke!

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