This photo was taken 123 years ago, but the bicycle pictured here doesn’t look significantly different than the single speeds we see tooling around Portland in 2018.
Pretty amazing, and testimony to the perfection of the traditional “diamond” frame.
The link from Vintage Portland, our (other) daily read:
https://vintageportland.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/1895-c_herbert-lewis-posing-with-a-bicycle_a2004-002-11004.jpg