I picked up my 1946 KMM Royal and started to type…

I imagine someone 113 years ago using my Underwood 4 to write a friend that the Wright Brother’s flew a plane. Events of World War I and II would have be pressed on paper. Man landing on the moon to the first Black President of the United States. So much could have been typed and one thinks how much more will be…
I got my bicycle back today… one of the things I had done was to change the gearing from a today’s typical 50/34T to a 40/36T which was something common in the 60’s. What use to be touring… is now considered Adventure… wait long enough and what was becomes the new thing (like typewriters)…