Miami bike scene

Miami, with its flat terrain and year-round warm weather, has the makings of a cycling friendly location. Of course, there’s also the heinous traffic,  lack of bike lanes and laws to protect cyclists. Take a look at a few of Miami’s early riders.

1/31/1968, Jow Shcuppe/Miami Herald: Couple on a double on Bicycle path in Matheson Hammock park.
4/25/1976, Albert Coya/Miami Herald: Away they go, for the Bike-A-Thon in Homestead for the American Cancer Society.
3/10/1975, Albert Coya/Miami Herald: Bikers ride along Krome Ave. at Homestead.
12/9/1973, Marlin Levinson/Miami Herald: Sierra Club outing.
10/16/1983, Bob East/Miami Herald: About 1,000 biker toured South Miami and Coral Gables Sunday in Herald Family Bicycling day event.
6/1/1963, Bill Sanders/Miami Herald: Pedal Pushers. Downtown Homestead becomes a bicycle path for this line of young and old pedalers and marchers who make up the city's second annual Bicycle Safety Month parade. The parade climaxed a month of bike safety programs, and was followed by trophy awards to winners of cycling contests.
12/3/1972, Dave Didio/Miami Herald.
5/29/1962, Hugo Wessels/Miami Herald: Big Wheelers. Down the main street of Homestead they came, hundreds of bicycles. See anybody you know? The occasion was Homestead's bicycle safety parade -- all officially sanctioned and decreed by city fathers, and a heck of a lot of fun for hundreds of free-wheelers besides. Krome Ave. hadn't seen the likes of it since . . . well, maybe T. D. Piche, 76, the oldest cyclist, could remember when.
12/3/1973, George Kochaniec/Miami Herald: Bicycle race.
10/16/1983, Bob East/Miami Herald: The whole family goes Bicycling in the big South Miami event at Sunset and Red Rd.
6/14/1974, W. O. Minor Jr/Miami Herald
8/12/1980, Albert Coya/Miami Herald: Manny Gonzalez jumps with his bike at this Palmetto and Flagler.
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