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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 ...
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.
site of Breton's 1902 death ( c. 1900 postcard) The cyclist Paul Dangla and his pacemaker teammate Marius Thé in the Vélodrome d'Hiver ( c. 1903 ) The first documented deaths of competitive cyclists during competition or training date to the 1890s and early 1900s when the recently-invented safety bicycle made cycling more popular , both as a ...
The most famous of all bicycle races is the Tour de France. This began in 1903, and continues to capture the attention of the sporting world. In 1899, Charles Minthorn Murphy became the first man to ride his bicycle a mile in under a minute (hence his nickname, Mile-a-Minute Murphy), which he did by drafting a locomotive at New York's Long Island.
Charles "Mile-a-Minute" Murphy was the first man ever to ride a bicycle for one mile in less than a minute. He performed this feat in 1899 by drafting behind a Long Island Rail Road boxcar between Farmingdale and Babylon on Long Island. [2] Dora Rinehart
The Michaux velocipede had a straight fork and a spoon brake. Serpentine frame Ernest Michaux and Michaudine velocipede. Pierre Michaux (June 25, 1813 – January 10, [1] 1883) was a blacksmith who furnished parts for the carriage trade in Paris during the 1850s and 1860s.
[2] [3] Statistics (generally) may vary based on the definition of what constitutes an injury or death, in particular time after incident and complications for deaths, and severity for injuries, therefore comparing statistics across years or nations requires a bit of deeper investigation. Many injuries go unreported.
The dictionary definition of velocipede at Wiktionary; Media related to History of the bicycle at Wikimedia Commons; 19th century picture of a Velocipede supposedly outrunning a horse Archived 2011-07-28 at the Wayback Machine; Musée McCord Museum Gallery "A Race on the Ice – Bicycles v. Skates" The Boneshaker. Retrieved 28 June 2010.