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I don't think this article should be deleted. The notability is there, even if the current article is lacking. I'll try to do something with it in the next few days, if I get time. --Lester 06:51, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Permit me to suggest that the cited sources may be misinformed on one point (“The poem actually featured the Safety bicycle. However, the poem has been inaccurately illustrated by various illustrators with a depiction of the visually more interesting Penny-farthing which had been superseded at the time the poem was written.[6][7]”). The poem itself makes clear that it was an ‘Ordinary’ (high-wheel) bicycle not a 'safety'. There are many references that may be used to authenticate that criticism, but one will do (me) http://niquette.com/bicycle-pavilion/ultexub.htm, from which this excerpt is pertinent: "In 1910, at South Hadley Massachusetts, a bicycle race was held in which for the first time the Safety was permitted to race against the Ordinary -- and the Safety won. Thus affording us a lesson from history: The triumph of intellect over dimension."Paul Niquette (talk) 08:50, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
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