Route 20, and savor a feast at the White Turkey Drive-In.
New York
On our forty-fifth day, we bicycled a nearly flat eighty-two miles along Lake Erie from Erie, Pennsylvania, to Hamburg, New York. We quickly showered and put on our street clothes. Our America by Bicycle staff was driving us in the vans to visit the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum. If you get anywhere near the Buffalo, New York, region, be sure to visit this place. Displays show numerous automotive innovations that were initially developed for bicycles. The first rack and pinion steering system was developed for a bicycle. The first differential drive system was developed for a bicycle. The museum has originals of these and many other mechanical marvels. An Irish veterinarian desiring to make his bicycle ride smoother created the first pneumatic tire for a bicycle. His name is Dunlap. In 1880-1890, the League of American Wheelmen lobbied for better roads for their high wheel bicycles. This organization evolved into what is now the American Automobile Association. The displays of the many intricate functioning machines created by comrades of Wilbur and Orville Wright show the ingenuity of the era.
We bicycled across the northern side of the Finger Lakes region. Glaciers augured these lakes to incredible depths. Although averaging only two miles wide, Lake Seneca’s depth is more than 630 feet, with 180 feet below sea level. It has been the sight of testing U.S. submarines and submarine radar. The great depths can easily be imagined when it is time to pedal east or west up from the lakeshore. The steep grades that make these narrow lakes so deep extend out of the waters to the mountains on their sides. Immediately we are geared into our lowest granny gears, very slowly struggling to the top.
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