The bicycling merit badge looked pretty boring, Just a wheel viewed from the side on a round patch. The original requirements in 1910 were quite strict. Stuff like take the bike apart and reassemble within a time limit. I'll do a link or something someday when I run across the book again.
Steve Birmingham Lowell, Ma --__--__--
Message: 10 Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 09:15:58 -0700 To: "Roy H. Drinkwater" <roydrink@mac.com>, classic list <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> From: Brandon Ives <monkeylad@mac.com> Subject: Re: [CR]Cycling Badge Was: Slide Rules
At 10:12 AM -0400 8/25/02, Roy H. Drinkwater wrote:
>This badge sounds intriguing to me, does anyone have a picture or
>link to what it looks like? If it's classic looking enough, maybe
>Chuck could make it into a t-shirt!
Didn't the Boy Scouts have a cycling badge too? I've always been
intrigued by those old guys with a vest full of patches I see at big
rides like STP and RAMROD. I know most of the patches come from
randonneuring brevets and someday I too will have the free time and
money to persue this aspect of the sport. There has to be a web page
with pictures of these patches, does anybody have the URL. . . Jan?
CLASSIC BIKE CONTENT: The old guys with patches going back 50 years
all ride "classic" bikes. The bikes were the first thing to draw my
eye.
enjoy,
Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
SB, CA