Off a suburban street about 12 miles southwest of downtown Buffalo [1] is Pedaling History Bicycle Museum (3943 North Buffalo Rd./Rte. 240/277, 716/662-3853, www.pedalinghistory.com [2], 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Mon.–Sat., 1:30–5 p.m. Sun., adults $6, seniors $5.40, children 7–15 $3.75), America’s only all-bicycle museum and one of the few in the world.
Over 200 bicycles are on display, including fat-tired streamliners, crude and heavy “bone shakers,” impossibly high unicycles, courting tandems, and a floating marine cycle.
First-rate historical exhibits explain how the bicycle was invented, and how the citizens of Victorian-era Boston once complained about the new craze, saying they could no longer control their horses for all the “racing bicyclists attired in black tights and long mustaches.”
Links:
[1] http://www.moon.com/destinations/new-york-state/western-new-york/buffalo
[2] http://www.pedalinghistory.com