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Henry Sturmey rode his first bicycle while at school in Weymouth when in his mid-teens in 1872 and became a keen cyclist. He was a touring enthusiast rather than interested in track racing. Sturmey's first post was an assistant-master at Brixton Hill College, London S.W.
The International Cycling Association (ICA) was the first international body for cycle racing.Founded by Henry Sturmey in 1892 to establish a common definition of amateurism and to organise world championships [1] its role was taken over by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 1900.
A Sturmey-Archer three speed hub, the most common kind of Sturmey-Archer gear. Sturmey-Archer was a manufacturing company originally from Nottingham, England.It primarily produced bicycle hub gears, brakes and a great many other sundry bicycle components, most prominently during its heyday as a subsidiary of the Raleigh Bicycle Company.
It was because the sport needed world championships independent of any national body that Henry Sturmey of the magazine The Cyclist and later founder of the Sturmey-Archer gear company proposed an International Cyclists Association in 1892. He approached other countries' cycling national associations through the NCU.
By 1885, the safety bicycles cataloged in Henry Sturmey's Indispensable Handbook to the Safety Bicycle included 7 with lever front-drives, 44 with geared front-drives, and only 9 with chain rear-drives. [4] [5] In that same year, John Kemp Starley (J. K. Starley) came out with the first commercially successful safety bicycle he named the Rover.
John James Henry Sturmey (1857–1930), known as Henry Sturmey, is best remembered as the inventor with James Archer of the Sturmey-Archer three-speed hub for bicycles, but he was a technical editor and journalist heavily involved as a pioneer of the cycling and automotive industries. Born at Norton-sub-Hamdon, Somerset, he died aged 72 at his ...
'E.T.' at 40: Henry Thomas explains the movie magic behind the beloved film's famous flying bike scene. Ethan Alter. June 10, 2022 at 11:00 AM ... Henry Thomas, it was just another day on the job.
The first international body was the International Cycling Association (ICA), established by an English schoolteacher named Henry Sturmey, the founder of Sturmey-Archer. It opened in 1893 and held its first world championship in Chicago, United States, the same year.