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Menotomy Vintage Bicycles – Antique bicycle photos, features, price guide and research tools. Metz Bicycle Museum in Freehold, NJ; Myths and Milestones in Bicycle Evolution by William Hudson (accessed 2005-11-17) A Quick History of Bicycles from the Pedaling History Bicycle Museum (accessed 2005-01-06) Sharp, Archibald (1911). "Bicycle" .
U.S. bike boom of 1965–1975: The period of 1965–1975 saw adult cycling increase sharply in popularity – with Time magazine calling it "the bicycle's biggest wave of popularity in its 154-year history" [4] The period was followed by a sudden [5] fall in sales, resulting in a large inventory of unsold bicycles.
[16] Elizabeth Robins Pennell started cycling in the 1870s in Philadelphia, [17] and from the 1880s onwards brought out a series of travelogues about her cycling journeys around Europe, from A Canterbury Pilgrimage to Over the Alps on a Bicycle. In 1895 Annie Londonderry became the first woman to bicycle around the world.
A bicycle, also called a pedal cycle, bike, push-bike or cycle, is a human-powered or motor-assisted, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, with two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A bicycle rider is called a cyclist, or bicyclist. Bicycles were introduced in the 19th century in Europe. By the early 21st century there were more ...
1946 – The initial iteration of the VéloSoleX motorized bicycle is introduced to the French Public. 1948 – The Trojan Minimotor begins production in Britain and becomes immediately popular. 1949 – The Mobylette is introduced in France. Its concept was "a bicycle with a nice permanent back wind". This pattern gave its name to the French ...
Ecobici is the bicycle sharing system launched in February 2010 by the government of Mexico City. [1] Initially launched with 85 docking stations and 1,000 distinctive red and white liveried bicycles, the network then expanded by September 2013 to be at 276 stations with 4,000 bicycles, [ 2 ] and as of April 2015 [update] , now has 444 stations ...
Boxes of Valentine's Day chocolates are displayed on a shelf at a Safeway store on February 12, 2025 in Dublin, California. Valentine's Day chocolates could cost up to 20 percent more this year as ...
Like the High Wheel bicycles that became popular later in the 19th century, boneshakers were front-wheel drive, but in comparison they had smaller wheels (only about 1 m), and were heavy, with a lightweight model weighing 14 kilograms (30 lb) or more.