{"id":13501,"date":"2018-09-29T18:29:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T01:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=13501"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:04:25","slug":"indianapolis-carl-fisher-and-the-eagle-hiwheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2018\/09\/29\/indianapolis-carl-fisher-and-the-eagle-hiwheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Carl Fisher saturated Indianapolis with the Eagle HiWheel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span><\/strong><\/span>ndianapolis is where Carl Fisher <\/strong>(excerpt<\/a><\/strong> from the chapter about Fisher in\u00a0 “How Indianapolis Built America and H\u0010ow it will Rebuild it with the National Bicycle Greenway<\/a>“), the PT Barnum of the Automobile Age, first sold HiWheels from his downtown bike shop. Because he sold so many of them, he was widely regarded as a top businessman well before he established the first auto dealership in the country!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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The eight testimonials you see here are all from Indianapolis residents. The pic at the Indiana Capitol with at least three Eagles on the steps was taken two blocks from his shop on Pennsylvania Ave !! All of this appeared in the most prestigious magazine of its day – The Wheelmen..<\/span><\/div>\n
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Indianapolis is where Carl Fisher (excerpt from the chapter about Fisher in\u00a0 “How Indianapolis Built America and H\u0010ow it will… read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,33,128,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carl-fisher","category-eagle-hiwheel","category-indianapolis-history","category-uncategorized-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-3vL","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13341,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2018\/09\/08\/indianapolis-and-the-nation-the-houses-that-carl-fisher-built\/","url_meta":{"origin":13501,"position":0},"title":"Indianapolis and the Nation, the Houses that Carl Fisher Built","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"September 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"From\u00a0\"How Indianapolis Built America and H\u0010ow it will Rebuild it with the National Bicycle Greenway\" [..] \"In business for himself, in addition to developing the people skills one cannot learn in a book, his mastery of the art of selling on trains also made him a great deal of money.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Carl Fisher"","block_context":{"text":"Carl Fisher","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/category\/carl-fisher\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/download-3.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13317,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2018\/09\/07\/white-house-steps-hiwheel-cyclist-ided\/","url_meta":{"origin":13501,"position":1},"title":"White House Steps HiWheel Cyclist ID’ed!","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"September 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally have a name for this guy. 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