By 1910, the company employed 1,000 workers and built 100,000 bicycles a year. The Miami Cycle & Manufacturing Company, which produced the Racycle, followed the same route that others in the industry took, moving from bikes to motorized vehicles. The top-of-the-line model cost $15.95 - that’s $458 in today’s money, which is about in the middle of the current price range. Customers could pick up their bike at the train station and take it for a 10-day trial. Working without a retail store, the Cash Buyer’s Union offered bicycles-by-mail. Jeffery founded Rambler Bicycles and eventually went on to start the long-lived Rambler automobile line. Pope, the man who gathered 150,000 signatures asking for a federal agency to promote building bike-able roads. Pope Manufacturing had been founded by Albert A. Columbia was one of the first major bicycle brands.
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