Bicycle Dreams

In 1889, twenty-five-year old Lemuel Dearce heads for Chicago where he gets swept up in the country''s new craze: bicycles. Hiring on as a worker in a bicycle manufacturing plant, he masters the technology and seeks to apply it as a bicycle repairman. This takes him to Minneapolis in 1893, a city in the full grip of bicycle mania. By 1910, married with three children, he watches his dream of a car...