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Some two-wheeled designs had pedals mounted on the front wheel, while three- and four-wheeled designs sometimes used treadles and levers to drive the rear wheels. The earliest usable and much-copied velocipede was created by the German Karl Drais and called a Laufmaschine (German for "running machine"), which he first rode on June 12, 1817. He ...
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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 ...
On 7 July at Liverpool Velocipede ran his last race in the Tradesmen's Cup over two miles. He started the 6/4 favourite in a field of ten and won from Dr Faustus. [ 18 ] On the following day, Velocipede was saddled for the Stand Cup at the same venue but was found to be lame when cantering to the start and was withdrawn.
Water velocipede, c. 1877 Man operating water tricycle, probably early 20th Century A Hydrobike brand hydrocycle Modern pedal catamaran with propeller drive (Germany, 1999). A hydrocycle is a bicycle-like watercraft. The concept was known in the 1870s as a water velocipede [1] and the name was in use by the late 1890s. [2]
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Tricycles can also be fitted with a lockable weatherproof box, usually of aluminium construction, for valuable goods and where the rider has to leave the vehicle. Cargo tricycles can typically carry 100–300 kilograms (220–660 lb) of cargo and have capacity of 1 m 3 (35 cu ft) or more, which is about half the capacity of a small panel van .
A pack of two cans of Axe. One is called one, the other is called two. Both should be sprayed together to make a new smell. 2009 2007 Shock: Ice mint scent: One of the three scents released by Axe under limited edition status. Based on a shower gel and comes in shower gel and body spray form. Released in U.S. in 2007. Present (UK: 2011) 2008