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It was almost 40 years until "velocipede" came into common usage as a generic term, with the launch of the first pedal-equipped bicycle, developed by Pierre Michaux, Pierre Lallement and the Olivier brothers in the 1860s. The Michaux company was the first to mass-produce the velocipede, from 1857 to 1871. That French design was sometimes called ...
The Velo was officially introduced by Karl Benz as the Velocipede, and became the world's first standardized serial production car. [1] The Velocipede remained in production between 1894 and 1902, with a final count of over 1,200 produced.
A motorized bicycle is a bicycle with an motor or engine and transmission used either to power the vehicle unassisted, or to assist with pedalling. Since it sometimes retains both pedals and a discrete connected drive for rider-powered propulsion, the motorized bicycle is in technical terms a true bicycle, albeit a power-assisted one.
Wooden dandy horse (around 1820), a patent-infringing copy of the first two-wheeler Original Laufmaschine of 1817 made to measure.. The dandy horse, an English nickname for what was first called a Laufmaschine ("running machine" in German), then a vélocipède or draisienne (in French and then English), and then a pedestrian curricle or hobby-horse, [1] or swiftwalker, [2] is a human-powered ...
2008 – The first "National" rally in the US, specifically for Motor-Assisted-Bicycles, took place in Ocean Park WA. There were 29 bikes, of various styles, representing 4 states. 2008 – A motorized bicycle ridden by Augie Deabler is accepted as an official entrant at the Bonneville Salt Flats "World of Speed '08."
The earliest year suggested for the Michaux-Perreaux steam velocipede is 1867, [2] [3] which could be either the same year, or earlier than the Roper velocipede, which some authorities also date as early as 1867, [14] [15] while others such as motorcycling historians Charles M. Falco and David Burgess-Wise, and Motorcycle Consumer News design ...
The Michaux velocipede had a straight fork and a spoon brake. Serpentine frame Ernest Michaux and Michaudine velocipede. Pierre Michaux (June 25, 1813 – January 10, [1] 1883) was a blacksmith who furnished parts for the carriage trade in Paris during the 1850s and 1860s.
A monowheel rider in the 2011 Doo Dah Parade, Columbus, Ohio Hemmings' Unicycle, or "Flying Yankee Velocipede", was a hand-powered monowheel patented in 1869 by Richard C. Hemmings. [1] 1931 Cislaghi Motoruota monowheel, modified by Giuseppe Govetosa. A monowheel or uniwheel is a type of one-wheeled, single-track vehicle.