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  2. Safety bicycle - Wikipedia

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    An 1880 penny-farthing (left), and a 1886 Rover safety bicycle (right). The first bicycle to be called a "safety" was designed by the English engineer Harry John Lawson (Henry Lawson) in 1876, [6] although other bicycles which fit the description had been developed earlier, such as by Thomas Humber in 1868. [7]

  3. Dan Albone - Wikipedia

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    This became very popular with sports cyclists. On 5 October 1886 George Pilkington Mills, on an Ivel Safety, achieved a world record 24-hour distance of 294.5 miles (474.0 km). [3] Albone went on to invent a tandem safety bicycle with Arthur James Wilson, [3] cycle pump clamps with Richard Tingey, and a child carrier accessory for his cycles ...

  4. List of bicycle parts - Wikipedia

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    List of bicycle parts by alphabetic order: Axle : as in the generic definition, a rod that serves to attach a wheel to a bicycle and provides support for bearings on which the wheel rotates. Also sometimes used to describe suspension components, for example a swing arm pivot axle

  5. History of the bicycle - Wikipedia

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    1886 Swift Safety Bicycle. Vehicles that have two wheels and require balancing by the rider date back to the early 19th century. The first means of transport making use of two wheels arranged consecutively, and thus the archetype of the bicycle, was the German draisine dating back to 1817.

  6. File:1886 Swift Safety Bicycle Coventry Transport Museum.jpg

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  7. Swift Motor Company - Wikipedia

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    It grew progressively from James Starley's Coventry Sewing Machine Company, via bicycle and motorised cycle manufacture. The cars ranged from a single-cylinder car in 1900 using an MMC engine, through a Swift-engined twin-cylinder 7-horsepower light car in 1904, and a 3-litre model in 1913.

  8. Velocipede - Wikipedia

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    It is ultimately derived from the Latin velox, veloc-'swift' + pes, ped-'foot'. [1] The term 'velocipede' is today mainly used as a collective term for the different forerunners of the monowheel , the unicycle , the bicycle , the dicycle , the tricycle and the quadracycle developed between 1817 and 1880.

  9. Pope Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    These first machines, copied from the Excelsior Duplex model, were made from seventy-seven parts that were made in-house, and only the rubber tires purchased from a supplier. Pope Manufacturing sold all its bicycles from the first production run. In 1879, production and sales were around 1,000, the last year of the Excelsior Duplex copies. [6]

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