19/04/2022
🚴 𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐂𝐘𝐂𝐋𝐄 𝐃𝐀𝐘 🚴
𝐁𝐢𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲 celebrates a definitive event, the world's first full-on acid trip, on 𝟏𝟗 𝐀𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐥 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟑, when the daddy of L*D, corporate chemist 𝐀𝐥𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐟𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧, dosed himself with 𝟐𝟓𝟎 µ𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐒𝐃, felt weird and left work early 𝐨𝐧 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐤𝐞. If you're an acid noob — and everyone was in 1943 — riding a bike on 250 mics is like flying an F-15 wearing mittens.
Hofmann made it home safe. And that bike ride was L*D's miracle moment — its Buddha under the Bodhi tree event, Newton hit on the head with an apple. "𝐿𝑆𝐷 𝑖𝑠 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑙 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛 𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒," Hofmann wrote.
The celebration of Bicycle Day originated in DeKalb, Illinois, in 1985, when 𝑇ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑠 𝐵. 𝑅𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑠, then a Professor at Northern Illinois University, invented the name “𝐁𝐢𝐜𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲” when he founded the first celebration at his home.
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The 𝐁𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐞 blotter design originally 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧, 𝐛𝐥𝐮𝐞, 𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐲𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰, 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 has been declined in hundreds, if not thousands of colors and shape variations since its appearance in 1993. It is said that the person who designed it is well known yet wants to remain anonymous, not wanting to claim paternity over this design. The below galleries feature some of the Bike Ride related sheets.
