Birth of the Indian "Motocycle" focuses on Middletown, Connecticut
There was a time in American history when people defined themselves as sophisticated, financially comfortable and suitably fashionable by doing one thing – riding a bicycle. Horses were unpredictable and high-maintenance. Train travel often was cramped and slow. The bicycle, though, provided freedom of movement for independent explorers before automobiles arrived on the scene. And Middletown, Conn., with its factories and skilled workforce, was a hub of innovative activity as