The lost cyclist
This summer marks 130 years since a 25-year-old bookkeeper and keen amateur photographer called Frank Lenz climbed astride his 57lb Victor safety bicycle and set off from Pittsburgh to ride around the world. He was destined to make front-page news for all the wrong reasons.
In the North America of the mid-1890s, the bicycle was hailed as a modern marvel equal to the typewriter or telephone, and the craze for cycling likened to an
