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Why is bicycle day April 19th and not the 16th?
    #10076215 - 03/30/09 07:42 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

I stumbled across this and thought I would share.

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Why Is Bicycle Day April 19th, not the 16th?




      I'm not sure of the year we had the first celebration that we called
      "Bicycle Day."  I know it was 1985 or before dating it from my daughter's
      birth in 1984. We may have celebrated under that name in 1983 or 84, as we
      moved into our house in Dec. 1982, but not before.
     
      As I recall, I originally wanted to celebrate the 16th, but that year the
      16th was midweek and not a good day for a party, and the 19th was on a
      weekend, so I decided to celebrate the first intentional LSD exposure
      instead of the first exposure on the 16th.  Had the calendar been different,
      the 16th would have been Bicycle Day.

      It seems to me that the discovery of LSD deserves 2 dates, so maybe someone
      will start a Hofmann Day or LSD Discovery Day event.
     
      Some years ago Albert and I corresponded about why I paid attention to the
      bicycle instead of calling it "LSD Day" or something similar. I told him
      that the bicycle was a more concrete image than a chemical structure, and
      in America there is a famous poem that marks the start of our revolution in        1775 that makes a parallel with his ride. It begins:
     
Twas the eighteenth of April in ‘75
And hardly a man I now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year
And the midnight ride of Paul Revere.     
     
      American school children used to memorize this poem. The Hofmann ride and
      the Revere ride are analogous, each marking the beginning of  a new era.
      To the people invited to my party, the parallels would be naturally apparent. I pointed
    out that the night of the 18th of April in America would be the early morning of
      the 19th in Switzerland.
     
      After several years of celebrations, I had Bicycle Day embroidered cloth
      patches made. The first is 1991.
     
      Of course, I am not saying that no one else might have also celebrated
      that date, but I made up the name "Bicycle Day" and it seems likely to me
      others might have preferred the 16th as I did originally.
     
      One of my former students made the announcement letter for the 1993 celebration
      that I've sent out since them.
     
      That's why the celebration and name got attached to the 19th, not the 16th.


Tom Roberts





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Re: Why is bicycle day April 19th and not the 16th? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
    #10076788 - 03/30/09 08:54 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

Cool :super:

Thanks for sharing


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Re: Why is bicycle day April 19th and not the 16th? [Re: MisterMuscaria]
    #10076851 - 03/30/09 09:02 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

Interesting.


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Re: Why is bicycle day April 19th and not the 16th? [Re: bryguy27007]
    #10077020 - 03/30/09 09:26 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

Because April 16th was when he accidentally absorbed some lsd through his skin.  On April 19th he intentionally dosed him self with 250ug.  The first recorded acid trip ever where he had to ride his bike home from the lab.


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Re: Why is bicycle day April 19th and not the 16th? [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
    #10077046 - 03/30/09 09:30 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

Lol I know. I just wanted to post an article dealing with why the intentional day was celebrated rather than the unintentional day.


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Re: Why is bicycle day April 19th and not the 16th? [Re: bryguy27007]
    #10077071 - 03/30/09 09:33 PM (14 years, 10 months ago)

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bryguy27007 said:
Interesting.




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