Before It Was Cool

The Wright Brothers may have been pretty hipster, rolling around building wing-warping biplanes and beach racing, but they weren’t hipster enough to build a fixie cafe racer bicycle. Maybe, at the turn of the century, it was avant garde to embrace technology instead of pay too much for “authentic vintage?”

Wright Bicycle
One of Wilbur & Orville Wright’s creations before they became too cool for terra firma. Source: Wikipedia

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