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2. Penny-farthing - Wikipedia

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   The furthest (paced) hour record ever achieved on a penny-farthing bicycle was 22.09 miles (35.55 km) by William A. Rowe, an American, in 1886. [39] The record for riding from Land's End to John o' Groats on a penny-farthing was set in 1886 by George Pilkington Mills with a time of five days, one hour, and 45 minutes. This record was broken in ...

3. Velocipede - Wikipedia

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   It fell out of favor after the summer of 1869 and was replaced in 1870 with the type of bicycle called "ordinary", "high-wheel", or "penny-farthing". Few original boneshakers exist today, most having been melted for scrap metal during World War I. [ 3 ] Those that do surface from time to time command high prices, typically up to about $5,000 US.

4. Thomas Stevens (cyclist) - Wikipedia

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   Thomas Stevens (24 December 1854 [1] [2] – 24 January 1935) was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle. He rode a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing, from April 1884 to December 1886. [3]

5. League of American Bicyclists - Wikipedia

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   15-mile Penny Farthing Race, Harvard University Cycling Association in 1887 Bicyclists of the League of American Wheelmen pose before the second annual St. Louis County Bicycle Tour, 1892. League of American Wheelman - Horse bibs - Good Roads, 1897

6. Copeland steam bicycle - Wikipedia

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   The Copeland steam bicycle was a steam powered, two-wheeled motor vehicle made by Lucius Copeland in 1881 and is sometimes classed as an early motorcycle. In 1881 Copeland designed an efficient small steam boiler which could drive the large rear wheel of a Columbia penny-farthing to a speed of 12 miles per hour (19 km/h).

7. History of the bicycle - Wikipedia

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   Meyer invented the wire-spoke tension wheel in 1869 and produced a classic high bicycle design until the 1880s. A penny-farthing or ordinary bicycle photographed in the Škoda museum in the Czech Republic. James Starley in Coventry added the tangent spokes and the mounting step to his famous bicycle named "Ariel". He is regarded as the father ...